Funny how Dean here is like a (negative, borderline parodic) Christ figure, but more pathetic than tragic: he doesn't survive the "Last Supper" and gets crucified on his own drunken ambition after going all Judas on himself.
That's not the only way angsty moody antihero Jett Rink manages to be a comical statement, and still his characterization stays mostly despicable. At the beginning of the motion picture he is the ultimate outsider, a lone poor cowboy filled with resentment and…