East of Eden | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

The film is set in 1917 but Dean feels completely modern and contemporary, a boy not quite comfortable in his body.

Jimmy Dean, as they called him, will stand the test of time due to his powerful on-screen presence because once a star is born on celluloid, they live on forever.

True to what made Dean the iconic symbol of that era's youth, his troubling and intricate performance as Cal Trask is ripe with the disaffected emotions that made him controversial to the old guard and beloved by the younger generation of his day.

I was much more sensitive, on a second viewing, to Kazan's sincerity and the undeniable lyrical power of his mise-en-scene, which, though probably too willful or conscious, is elevated from within by its powerful grounding in art as well as life.