Review of The Breakfast Club (1985) by Viniciusbrito — 23 Nov 2018

A group of students that have committed school infractions during the week, ended up in detention in a saturday and do a essay about what they think of themselves, they don't really know each other at that point, at first they are completely different from one to another and don't really seem that they match between each one, there were Andrew, the sportsman, Claire, a preppy, Allison, a weird girl, Brian, the nerd and finally Bender, the rebel one. During the course of the day they got to know a bit more the others, and surely a lot more about themselves. Directed and written by John Hughes.

The story in here won in it's simplicity to approach complex themes, well, before anything else, the subtleties that are presents in this movie are fantastic, how they just make you know every character in here, almost equally and in different ways, it was so creative but at the same time so easy. It is just impossible to not relate with pretty much everything in this movie, every single teenager that are in this movie you most likely know people from school or even college that are just like them, and surely you will identify yourself in one of them, or a bit of you in all of them possibly, it is characteristics that I have had in almost every class that I have been during my life, the most different people, and a lot of them I didn't really knew what was going on in their lifes or how were they relationship with families and things that they might be going throught, and this movie did showed me that we had much in common that I expected, that bad people had a reason to be like that in school, not everybody is what it looks like, and surely not only what it looks like, no one is just black or white in a psych meaning, everybody have a lot of shades, and the way that this story exemplifies this, isn't just clear made in a movie perspection, but it helps us to change our minds in other people.

Inchmeal that the story progresses we got to know more about them next to the same, so in first we have the same vision together as the characters, we only know things superficially, and inch by inch, with the strong and powerful dialogues that we have we got know more about them, and definely understand things way more clearly, during this process the reason that it is so important for us, is because we can see how are issues that doesn't matter if you are rich or poor, strong or weak, things happen to everybody. One of the main situations that is approached by this story, is how parents and adults can be destructive, how bad parents could be to children and how they would, and are, affected by things that parents do, you hear by each one of them, and definely everybody have had moments with this during our lifes, some could be exaggerated and some don't, but the true is that things like this go through the head of everyone at some point.

It is great how the characters had the others back, even if they don't really rock with them, the interaction between them are so great, and at the same time very real, are things that I did or I could see happening.

Another strong thing that it is very common between the adolescence, is that how necessary it is to be inside of a group and get accepted by that, the film talks about it and exemplify how suffering that could be, the fear of not being accepted and the needed to be part of something, and how bad can be the necessity to stay there, even when you gotta do things that you don't really wants to. They also put how easy it is to regret of something, do something to impress someone or something like that, but when you actually get to know how bad it was, or seing in the other side, seing things from other perspective, that was really nice.

Judd Nelson was phenomenal in here, he could first give that student that apparently don't really care about anything, and then he gave him layers, he is sarcastic, funny, scrotum and have his manneirsms, he is authentic and can finally, after that all, give that image of sadness.

Molly Ringwald could gave that pretty and rich girl aspect, and had some nice dialogues where she put her emotions out well. Ally Sheedy was really nice in here, without speaking much, she was myterious and had some really peculiar moments while she did strange things, you got interested to know more about her during the whole movie. Emilio Estevez did a nice job as well, he was strong and convinced me in his regret moments. Anthony Michael Hall is also really good, he could pass that innocence and vulnerability, so as his sadness and trouble with the personal life.

It does have some problems, like some cuts feel so unnatural, there are somethings that was disruptive, moments that were from emotional from a completely different thing with no working, but that is a small thing compared to the whole thing.