e majority of the parents try to avoid teenage confrontations and situations because they say they are too complicated, but what they really are is ignorant and irresponsible. There is one line in this movie that clearly shows how the majority of parents view teen problems back then and today: “She’ll outgrow it dear, it’s just the age…It’s just the age where nothing fits.”The problems faced by most of the teens in the film seem rather tame by today’s standards. But maybe it’s more relevant to realize. The ill-defined sense of alienation that grips these “normal” teens leads them to create a society, a subculture, which their parents know nothing about. That their anger will find an oulet in violence with knives and guns is both inevitable and tragic and, unfortunately, an all too familiar story in our time. Rebel Without A Cause is not only about the issues that tortured teens in the 50’s, but abou the central, inner, sometimes self-inflicted pains that plagued teens then and still, to this day, plague teenagers. That is why I can relate to Rebel Without A Cause and why generations of youth will....
