Fun Loving, and Great Lessons in being yourself

Rating: 9/10 (22 September 2018)

Seeing this movie means marking a check in the checklist of life experiences. As every teen more or less has gone through this experience in their high school years. With every generation, knowing who you are becomes more and more important; the characters in this movie display this in a situation of discipline, which can be hard on some while difficult on others at this age or just considered another day in detention. Some of the characters do not seem to mind the punishment considering how bad their home life or status in society i.e. High School is, vice versa, some of the other characters feel and know that this punishment could and would ruin their reputation. Maintaining humility is unlearned practice as a teenager. Most teens are so worried about how they will fit into their social class or their problems that they neglect that other people have problems too, they forget who they are, thus causing more abrupt problems in our current youth's society.
This is a tough topic in the modern day, some teens do not overcome these issues and go into dark places, and do horrific things, much like the millennial generation and school shootings. This movie demonstrates how important is to be true to who you are before things become too dark. Unfortunately bullies do exist only to exacerbate the problems for other teens who are not accepting of them and who already in a dark place in their minds, as a bully does not know when to stop being bully or has not meant enough consequences or love to really know why it is so wrong to bully. Though often times the bully itself has problems they cannot contain, and the result is that take their problems out on others. Even as unfair as this is, it is not easy to stand up to a bully in the modern day, in comparison to the 80's setting in this movie. More than likely, at that time bullies were recognized more quickly, and they was little nonsense for such behavior.
The plot centers around a group of students that are sent to detention all for different reasons, though each of them realizing their problems are not any worse than others, thus helping them realize who they are and how things are not actually that bad and they can get through it. These values are missed today, their is no excuse for bullying, or not speaking up about your problems. What is even worst as that those truly good people have to suffer differently than those who have a comforting home life as a teen. In the end we need to be nice, you never know who is hurting or needs a little love to truly become who they are.
Love conquers all, and we find that these teens survive this dilemma to become even greater people, only if this was used more today to create loving environments. We all need practice with this, and this movie displays beautifully how an fun loving environment without drugs or alcohol can truly help people grow.