I thought The Breakfast Club was a great insight into teenage lives!

Rating: Null/10 (2 August 2010)

I watched the film The Breakfast Club which was made in the year 1985. This movie really revolves around the typical stereotypes that we are all aware are created during those tough high school years. There are five teenagers that are the main characters in this film who all end up in detention together and there they actually learn more about themselves and the others around them than they ever learned before.
Some major characters in this film that are worth mention were Emilio Estevez who played Andy Clark, Molly Ringwald who played Claire Standish, Ally Sheedy who played Allison Reynolds and Judd Nelson who played John Bender. I think the theme of this movie revolved greatly around the letter that was written instead of the essay. The letter changed in many ways, yet by the end of the movie it showed to all involved and to the principal that each person is viewed differently, by all involved and by the principal himself. The theme also involved no matter what they found out about each other or revealed to each other, most of the time, teenagers will revert back to their old ways that they are comfortable with, which is what some or most did and do.
I think if I had to compare the theme of stereotyping to another movie I could do that easily to the movie Crash that I viewed a little while back. I think the same type of stereotyping of people is used in that film to portray what people truly think of each other and how their thoughts and feelings change as they go back to their normal lives. I believe the angle and lighting were both very important and portrayed very well in this film. The most important scenes took place in detention in the school library where the lighting truly showed how the room was bright and vibrant and even let the sun shine in so that they could all see what they were missing outside by being in trouble that day. It is not at all gloomy which I think is the way it should be due to the nature of what the students are discussing and trying to unravel about each other.
I think that the lighting and angle helped to make the theme more believable where most people viewing the movie would begin to think what it might be like in that library on a Saturday when they should be out having fun.