Review of The Breakfast Club (1985) by Logan L — 08 Sep 2013

Own the Flashback Edition. This movie breaks the barrier for teenage stereotypes, not that it IS a teen movie. As John Hughes stated, with age does not come wisdom. Even the quote at the beginning from the film by David Bowie reflects that. The Brat pack is one the best acting acting casts in any generation in my opinion.

It is such a timeless film. When I say timeless, I mean that it refrains from being stuck in the year of 1984, hell...it even is true in other countries! We all have the "masked" clicks in High School to hide who we are, let it be race, interests, clubs, disabilities, religion, the list goes on! Out of the 5 teens in the film you can not say you can not relate to at least ONE person in that movie.

The way the movie opens up is subtle at first but then explodes in intensity as the story progresses. The persona's of each character hides in each of their shells and by the end of the movie you see a transformation take place within each one of them. It's a movie about real human behavior. Not just teens. The janitor Carl had a back story, before you saw anyone else in the movie he was the first one introduced. In a way.... Back when he was in Shermer Illinois High School (a fake city, watch Dogma to understand that joke, another great film), he was Man of the Year in a Hall of Fame. Yet ends up being the school janitor, kinda sad foreshadowing for Emilio Estevez's character, Andrew. In fact a lot of character's in the movie have amazing foreshadowing after the film. Like with Claire and her parents. Or with Allison and her coming out of her bubble. Some say she is a sell out, but if she chooses to do it then she's not, but if Claire forced her then it'd be different. John Hughes made that point clear, even though Ally wasn't happy at all about it.

Over all I give the film a 11/10. For it's deep plot yet simple setting, it was a very intriguing film, take something as boring as Saturday Detention and turn it into everyone's auto-biography on their lives. I enjoyed it till this very day!