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February 28, 2005
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray:
I have no idea why, but I was dreading watching this in the same way I dread the day I decided to watch Marty. I expected something dry and bland and trite after fifty years, even though Ray's Johnny Guitar was one of the most inventive and subversive Western I've seen.
I was also mistaken in thinking it was in black and white. It's not, of course, and has nearly the vibrant palette of Johnny Guitar. Ray's treatment of the troubling life during teenagedom is equally colorful, with a textured and complex view on gender, family and what it means to grow up.
15/15
Posted by bing at February 28, 2005 05:49 PM