My life on screen

Rating: Null/10 (2 May 2003)

John Hughes must know all the cliques of high schools, and their minds. Coming of age movies now are basically about kids who shop at the Abercrombie & fitch, drive a car to school, have about 10 friends at school, play on the field hockey team, throw parties and have parents who look like super models. When I look at this movie I can name a bunch of kids at my high school who are similar. There's kids who get detentions every day, love to fight, get on people's nerves whom they don't like and always think of themselves like Judd Nelson's character. There's kids who always want to hear who's dating who, want attention, shop at expensive stores like Abercrombie & Fitch, live in a new fancy house development and go for school only for their tons of friends like Claire. There's kids who make the basketball team, and get their friends off the bleachers of the court like Andrew. Then there's the kids who tend to get picked on, have a unique/alternative life style, tend to be in art classes, hang out with the 'social outcasts' (Punks, Gothic people, and lower class) and hate going to school like Allison. People like Brian are the ones who turn up in the national honor society, turn up in the debate team and have no idea that to some people they aren't cool. If you don't know what I'm talking about you probably didn't go to a public high school. Topics like drug use and sex used in the movie are basically what is talked about in schools today. Who ever gets laid in her teens and smokes dope is cool to a lot of teenage America sadly. Looking at this characters in this masterpiece the only character I can relate to Allison. I always get picked on for being myself and being into darker things. Even before I got into the gothic scene I was picked on. People like Andrew and Clarie's character always seemed to pick on me. My opinion of the change of Allison's character in the end would've been better if it was cut out. It seemed like the message was like if your like Allison you should change your style so guys will like you and you will get friends. Which can be untrue though. Andrew liked Allison as a person before her transformation in style wise.