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...could see through the wall of the Brattle, there are some 200 people seated in parallel rows facing the far wall. Three people are in the back row, closest to the street. On the far wall, they are projecting "Rebel Without a Cause...
...Young [A Minor Retrospective]--Dean only made three movies, all of them differing grades of terrible. Giant is a movie that seems to run for at least six hours for no reason at all. East of Eden is an embarrassment; a heavy handed and unsophisticated piece of moviemaking. Rebel Without A Cause is almost unbelievably lame...
Cause and Effect--And yet, Rebel Without A Cause sent a shockwave through the 1950s--to the point where the movie was banned in Japan. To the point where red barracuda jackets were becoming an epidemic. To the point where a cult of Dean emerged complete with teenagers who tried to contact his spirit and were convinced that somehow he'd come back. It was one of those weird flashes of fusion, where some source, regardless of its quality, taps into some undercurrent that everyone else has ignored. Witness Kerouac. Witness Kesey. Witness Presley...
...such ambiguities presents the central theme of the movie. Lumet could have used the disintegration of that bond as an opening for examining the causes of Ciello's behavior. Danny Ciello somehow couldn't fit in. He loved the camaraderie, but something--just what is maddeningly unclear--made him rebel at his fellow detectives scorn for the system. At least partially driven by self-preservation and self-aggrandizement, Ciello is not noble, just understandable. He risks his job and his life to turn on his fellow officers, a move that Treat Williams sensitively portrays as impulsive, with Ciello unaware...
...short, Reagan's decision is a ready-made recipe for class conflict. If for several years organized labor has been a cause without a rebel, the current danger lies in the possibilities of it becoming a rebel without a cause...