“Brighton Rock” is a complex story of a street boy, Pinkie Brown, who hates the entire white world, the leader of a youth gang in Brighton. Under Green’s pen, it turns into a cruel and intelligent reflection on the nature of good and evil, guilt and innocence, the “path upward,” and the price you have to pay for success.
Pinkie is defiantly wicked and dares to question society’s moral norms.
And the most interesting part is that his point of view often looks very well argued…