The Breakfast Club Review

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The Breakfast Club, written and directed by John Hughes in 1985, is an American teen drama. One of the most influential movies of its time The Breakfast Club was named the best high school movie of all time by Entertainment Weekly in 2006. The Breakfast Club is a prime example of Popular Culture in the way that it depicts teens from every demographic in a typical high school setting i.e. the brain, the criminal, the jock, the princess and the basket case. The movie is easy to identify with because most of us can find something in common with at least one of the characters because they have made them relatable through clothing, language, music and attitude. The movie was presented in sequential form as each scene unfolded more in to the plot of the movie. The plot of the movie was to represent an unfamiliar day for five teenagers from very different backgrounds as they were forced to spend a day in detention with peers very different from themselves. The movie played out in comical fashion as these teens find themselves in precarious situations breaking the rules and playing games to elude the principal. As the day unfolds they find themselves learning a little more about each other and all the while they are forced to learn things about themselves. The jock learns that he is pushed to follow a dream that is not his own, the princess learns that the façade her rich and popular lifestyle has created is fake and isn’t true to herself, the nerd finds truth in stepping outside his perfect straight A box by breaking the rules, the basket case is finally accepted once she stops lying about her tragic life, and the criminal finds that he isn’t the only one without a perfect life when he stops and listens to others. The film was meant to open the minds of teens that things may seem one way on the outside, but when you take the time to look in, you will see that

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