East Of Eden 4K 1955

I confess that I am skeptical of all kinds of screen adaptations: be it Tolstoy's "War and Peace" or Begbeder and his "99 francs". But the adaptation of Steinbeck's novel simply struck me with its emotional intensity. It is difficult to say whose merit in the fact that the movie gained fame as one of the most significant in the history of Hollywood, the director or the performer of the main role of James Dean, all subsequent roles of which will be compared with this work of his.

The biblical theme of the rivalry between brothers Cain (Col Trask) and Abel (Adam Trask) runs through the narrative. James Dean, in my opinion, as authentically as possible conveyed the whole range of feelings and experiences of the hero: maximalism, some aggressiveness, jealousy, desire to please his father and earn his love...Except that with all his cruelty and non-ideality it is him that the viewer empathizes with.

And the last scene of the movie is almost an exact movie version of Rembrandt's 'Return of the Prodigal Son'.