Overview of The Breakfast Club

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2013)

In the movie The Breakfast Club a group of five different stereotyped students (the princess, the brain, the criminal, the athlete, and the basket case) come in contact of one another due to detention. While attending detention their principal, Mr. Vernon, asks that they write an essay about "who do you think you are" and the violations committed to end up at detention. Although the students did not get along in the first half of the movie because of their social differences as the movie progressed they soon opened up to one another realizing that aside from their physical attributions they were not too different from each other. As the five sit and hold a conversation, they explained reasons why they were at detention to begin with and talents that they have. They then begin revealing their secrets and eventually they all figure out that they have strained relationships with their parents and have the same fears in life. Along with the fear of making mistakes as their surrounding peers, they also begin to fear that they will return to their cliques and will not speak to each other again outside of detention. The movie ends with the letter written by the students being read which illustrates the changes that the students went through during detention and how their thoughts and views have changed and how it is viewed from a different perspective. I thought the movie did an excellent job thoroughly reflecting the teenage perspective because in reality teens tend to judge one another prior to knowing them personal. I think that this movie gives people, in and out of high school, an opportunity to rethink the negativity that goes through their head about an individual that appears different than what they are used to and keep an open mind towards the possibility of a new friendship. Throughout conversations in the movie the students saw that they went through the same daily struggles and although they had different classifications(similar to ones we have nowadays) they were able to realize that they were no different than one another. This movie is one of my favorites because it allows it's audience to take away a life lesson rather than be viewed as just another movie. Although the movie was based on school, the actors did a good job making the scenario comparable to situations that would be faced whether it be at school, work, or life in general.