Response to the first comment on the page

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2001)

I was truly unhappy when I read "I don't like what I see, I really don't" on the main page for The Breakfast Club. Writing from a teenager's perspective, I really don't agree with the review at all. The reviewer described the problems the characters in the movie face as "everyday and banal", and that they were silly teenage problems no one really cares about and teenagers should stop complaining. We haven't entered the real world yet, true, and maybe we don't face things like the 20-100 age group does, but we face our fair share of problems. If the reviewer remembered what it was like to be a teenager, or perhaps put himself in that position even for a moment, maybe his review would not have been so stereotypical of teenagers today. Maybe HE remembers growing up not getting along with his family, and how, at the time, it seemed like the most awful thing in the world. I'm not defending that situation and saying it IS the most awful thing in the world. More, cut the characters a little bit of slack - they think their problems are a big deal, and that's what matters. The Breakfast Club wasn't thinking "Are our problems a big deal for adults?", they were thinking "This is a problem for me and I'm trying to deal." This response isn't so much defending the characters, but defending teenagers in general. Adults really don't really cut us enough slack. We have a fair amount of emotional grief to deal with, and we shouldn't be frowned upon because our problems seem silly and frivolous, but shown some compassion - what we're facing really IS a big deal.