The Breakfast Club

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Summary:
Produced in 1985, the Breakfast Club is interpretated by movie commentators as “melodramatic, overacted, and simplistic.” Five high school students, all different stereotypes, meet in detention, where they pour their hearts out to each other, and discover how they have a lot more in common than they thought. The film opens with a quote from David Bowie that just about sums the entire film up. Audiences are introduced to five kids spending eight hours of detention at Shermer High School in Illinois. They are: Andrew the Jock (Emilio Estevez), Brian the Nerd (Anthony Michael Hall), Bender the Criminal (Judd Nelson), Claire the Princess (Molly Ringwald), and Allison the Basketcase (Ally Sheedy). They are looked over by the school principal (Paul Gleason), who assigns them the task of writing a report on why they are here in detention and what they did to get there.
At last Andrew ended up with Allison on a campus puppy romance and the Princess developed a subtle feeling with Bender the Criminal. And they confided in each other about their problems with families and their unique feelings not as a parent regarded teenager, but as individual who has their thoughts and the need of love and respect.


Analysis:
But more it offered a scenario glimpse of high school life of U.S in 1980s, the angstful youth times with family originated problems, such as Bender the criminal suffered from a violent and alcoholic father with domestic violence and render him extremely rebellious. The Nerd Brian feels under trememdous pressure and almost preparing to have a handgun suicide, which was poked fun by other 4 guys during the cast of group of five conversation as,
Nerd’s geek characters and weird obssession of wondering his virginity is not giving him maturity confidence, which could be seen during the show and he gradually get out of the shadow. The Basketcase Allison, an outcast, she tried to be self protective with a “ compulsive lying symdrome” cooked up a lot of spicy humors in the movie, which in a tricky fashion she induced the Princess Claire announcing she is a virgin.. A lot of lines was considered classic as a good reflection of the mid 1980 high school life. And according to the sources of IMDB, many gave a high recommendation of this movie, because it gives a developmental depiction of high school students personality, and the viewers could feel being related to it and find the original prototype of each character in real life.
But more we could say it also reflect to a certain degree of failure of family education with school system, and family issues always become a disturbing factor or intriguing factor for character development. And as a teenager, being respected as an individual and equally treated is always sparkling ideas in the movie, teenagers are no only kids who should be submissive, but they are independent thinking individuals


Reaction:
Well, as far as we could hear it over the cyber space. People there consider it as one of the best teenage movies, and offers a true 1980s students picture, their lives, their problems and especially as a reflection about the US kids family problems. It is favored by a lot of Audiences and the notion of the sequels were even brought onto the table, and people who really aprreciate the movie feels lucky there is not a sequel coming, because they realize it is a good piece of movie for young people today to compare and older people to ponder over their good old time. It brings the audience who have been there (the high school times) and who are there( those of today’s high schools) to understand better about life in a school, it’s where people get from a small society called family to a school then getting ultimately into the real society, and one detention day’s life in Sherman High captures those small and memorable elements for teenager viewers and those who once was . The reaction is positive and recommendations for people of all ages.