And the same society that tells Jim being called a chicken makes you less of a man. The film revels in such ambiguities and instabilities. The track toward the cliff is made by two inward-facing rows of the gang’s cars, their headlights on. For queer viewers, Rebel Without a Cause is seminal for Sal Mineo’s portrayal of Plato — whom he later referred to as the first gay teenager on film — … As Jim cradles Plato’s body, he is caught between grief and absurdity, inarticulate pity and the awful laughter of sorrow. Christopher Rowe. But his career faltered. But Dean’s and Mineo’s performances, as well as director Nicholas Ray’s deft direction, manage to keep it from lapsing interminably into schmaltz. Plato’s horror, his disorientation in which he covers his eyes and falls to the floor, is the same as that of the strange prisoner emerging into daylight. Today it comes off as overwrought and cloyingly melodramatic to the point of ham-fistedness. The idea of a non-traditional family, particularly after rejection from one’s own family, is a theme with which LGBT viewers can easily identify. For their intimate scene in the abandoned mansion, Dean instructed Mineo to “look at me the way I look at Natalie.”, Iconic writer and veteran shade-thrower Gore Vidal even claimed that Ray, also bisexual, had an affair with the 16-year-old Wood as well as Mineo (also 16), “while the sallow Dean skulked in and out.” Perhaps Dean, at 24, was a little too long in the tooth for Ray, though he felt a deep kinship with his leading man.
Even if Rebel Without a Cause doesn’t really hold up so well today, it still speaks to teens or anyone seeking to be understood. Mineo’s callow character is given this classical philosophical marker to direct us back toward Ray’s use of the allegory. The scenes that follow depict these teens as they try to fit in with their peers and find the love they so desperately need from their families. [iii] Plato. Plato describes beings who are both prisoners of ignorance or the consensus of limited experience. Here was the new voice of a generation, prematurely silenced. Plato bolts into the security of the darkness before the police lights are turned on again, and—briefly staring directly in to the light—Plato is shot. But then again Jim’s sensitivity is his saving grace.
Do you think the end of the world will come at night time?’ Jim replies ‘At dawn.’ The two are half in shadow and half in light. He dies, as one of the cries out, ‘down there!’ in the darkness. The knife fight proceeds to the ‘chickie run’ on the bluffs where Jim and Buzz race stolen cars toward the cliff edge to see who has the courage to remain in their car longest without bailing out of the driver’s door. Rebel Without a Cause plot summary, character breakdowns, context and analysis, and performance video clips. [ii] See Jacques Lacan ‘The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the I as Revealed in Psychoanalytic Experience’ (1949) in Écrits. Release Dates This tender, even romantic, moment before Buzz’s firey death matches the intimacy shared between Jim and Plato in later scenes. Rebel Without a Cause. His family insist on moving him away from the scenes of experience. In the final scene of Rebel Without a Cause, it is Jim’s previously emasculated father who agrees finally to ‘stand up’ (see Plato, p. 240) with Jim and to face the metaphorical sunlight. He is the ‘strange prisoner’ of delinquent subjectivity (even as he recognizes Jim’s authenticity, and likes him) and like Plato’s cave prisoners, he finds himself restrained, bonded to his mythology by his leather jacket. If you haven't solved the crossword clue Plato in `rebel without a cause yet try to search our Crossword Dictionary by entering the letters you already know! Judy’s shadow extends across the dirt. As for anyone who set about trying to release them and take them up there, if they could somehow get their hands on him and kill him, don’t you think they would? CrosswordClues.com is a free Crossword Solver tool. It’s too bright. (242). In the nocturnality of Rebel Without a Cause, one of its few daylight scenes occurs when Jim Stark attends Dawson High for the first time: his eyes not yet properly adjusted, he fails to notice the school shield after he ascends the school steps in a vivid crowd, and transgresses by stepping on it. Even though he is a sympathetic character — and portrayed as such — Plato’s still gotta go. The difference is Judy. “P.ZZ..” will find “PUZZLE”.) So of course, Buzz has gotta go. Originally titled The Blind Run, inspired by a subterranean juvenile delinquent subculture automobile racing/chicken scene that existed literally underground, in a tunnel on Mulholland Drive, Rebel Without a Cause uses Plato’s allegory to frame the transit from darkness to light, from one delinquent/arrested subjectivity to another with its own disorientations. The same society that makes him find his father’s emasculation disgraceful. Momentarily, Plato is reassured as Jim convinces Ray Fremick to order the police to turn out their lights. He aligns Jim with the ascended Orion, returning. As for Mineo, Ray may have felt a little something different. At its core, the film is a sensitive plea for tolerance and understanding — from family and from society. Rebel Without a Cause (1955) Plot. Jim jumps from his car. Nicholas Ray intends them to function as tragic theatrical spaces, but also as a recapitulation of the allegory of the cave.
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