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Originally Posted by AaronJ
Ahh, gotcha.
Well, high school is very much like those characters depicted in the film. Everyone falls into their little cliques and groups and is either this sort of person or that sort of person, etc.
The Princesses don't hang out with the nerds. The jocks don't hang out with the druggies, etc. Now, obviously, these aren't absolute rules or anything. But it is how it generally works. I mean, sure, a good friend of mine in HS was the girl who ended up being Prom Queen.* And believe me: That was not my clique. But barring the odd, random exception like that, it's very much as it is depicted in many teen films. It works like the jungle.
What The Breakfast Club did brilliantly, among other things, was distill that experience and everything that went along with it down into this group of characters, and what they represented and what they were experiencing.
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I remember high school, though I graduated forty years ago in 1977. But, I can't recall the names of anyone I went to high school with, and have never gone to a reunion -- wouldn't be caught dead at one. It wasn't anything like THE BREAKFAST CLUB, but then I never got held in detention and was only vaguely aware of cliques because I was one of those loners that ignored most everyone and couldn't have cared less what was going on in school. I only went because I HAD to. I was also a complete movie nerd. I wasn't into sports, but I'd watch a sports movie, like SLAP SHOT! That was my idea of a sports movie -- still is.
One semester I took the journalism class and got the job of writing the movie reviews for my high school paper. I think I reviewed four movies but I can only remember three, BREAKHEART PASS, THE ADVENTURE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES' SMARTER BROTHER, and TAXI DRIVER. My reviews got good reviews from the rest of the class, but there was someone who had to point out that all the movies I reviewed were R-rated. My reply was, "But those were the only good ones." I was still only sixteen so I could get into R-rated movies without an accompanying adult for the most part, but my mother had to take me to TAXI DRIVER. She liked it more than I did. I gave it a mixed review. I have it on Blu-ray now, of course, and I still would give it a mixed review.
Anyway, THE BREAKFAST CLUB... I was twenty-six when it came out, and always willing to see anything. I went to it. Meh! It was a brat pack movie. That's all it'll ever be to me. My Leonard Maltin Movie Guide only gives it two and a half stars, and I agree with that, but it also says it's "filled with moments of truth and perception." I guess so. I really can't look at the thing anymore because I used to think Ally Sheedy was really cute, I mean like
really cute, you know what I mean? Oh, girl.... what you did to yourself.
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