Directed by Nicholas Ray and based on a play of the same name by Robert M. Linder. It takes us into the universe of young people and their deepest frustrations. The three protagonists feel misunderstood by their family and their environment and try to attract attention in the only way they know how to cause problems.
Brilliant and charismatic interpretation of James Dean, this would be his last role, Jim Stark, a young man who hates the behavior and attitude of his parents to the point of causing him a contained rage that he does not know how to express and causing him pain in the most deep in his entrails and situation against which he will try to rebel. He needs a father figure to admire and respect and he finds himself with a father, a submissive being and dragged by the temperament of the two women, his wife and his mother-in-law, who together will make him an operetta puppet, a puppet to the who drive as they please without realizing the damage they cause to Jim, who will try to escape charging against the world and parents unable to face and understand their way of acting, always trying to flee from city to city to escape the problems it causes , before coming face to face with the cause of that rebellion, if there is one. He cries out for them to listen to him, to give him answers, to face events, to show courage, not to be cowards.
Jim should understand that his parents, who love him and want the best for him, do it in the best way they know how, as they were taught, and that he, who has the concern to grow up and look for other answers and other ways of behaving than do it, try it, grow up even alone, you don't have to assume the beliefs or patterns of your parents, you are free to create your own, you just have to realize that each individual has the freedom to choose how to act and become responsible for it. And not getting carried away by the group will be one of the biggest challenges they will have to face as young people, because that need for identity can lead them to commit acts against their convictions simply to please others.
