The five eclectic members of “The Breakfast Club” – “a brain, an athlete, a basket, a princess and a criminal” – are the plan for the American Hollywood high school. “The Breakfast club”, released in 1985, is a film independent of maturity on five teenagers in detention. As a testimony to the long -standing popularity of the film, in 2016, the emblematic film was added to the National Film Registry by the Congress Library. After 40 years of “The Breakfast Club”, is the film still relevant for young people today?
Perhaps you were forced to watch “The Breakfast Club” by your parents who grew up watching the Brat-the group of young Hollywood actors who dominated the films of the 80s-in the cinemas, or perhaps you found the film for yourself. Anyway, looking at Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy on the screen, he is clear why the children of the 80s saw each other or discovered who they wanted to go through “The Breakfast Club”.
Nowadays, adolescents resonate with their own adolescence on social networks. The formerly rosy princess with diamond earrings – Claire Standish (Ringwald) – is now the girl wearing gold with a draped teammate on her shoulders and a Van Cleef pendant swinging her neck. The bad boy formerly in flannel – John Bender (Nelson) – is the skater of skater in ample cargo pants and an oversized graphic t -shirt with a baby photo as a profile photo. The former artistic goth -chic dressed in all black – Allison Reynolds (Sheedy) – is now the tortured poet with a purple nail polished varnish and a black buffrying eyeliner that archives and the anarchive messages of its scratches on Instagram.
Almost almost everyone met at least one of these evolving characters in the corridors of their high school or on their phone screens. Contests and expressions can change, but archetypes supported by “The Breakfast Club”.
Despite first glance conceptions, “The Breakfast Club” is much more than a dramatization of the stereotypical adolescent; This is the story of young people with conflicting personalities who meet to endure the tests and tribulations of adolescent anxiety. In other words, “The Breakfast Club” is the pioneer of the classic scene where wildly different people connect in a confined space.
The library – where the emblematic group of future friends serves detention in “The Breakfast Club” – has been referenced in countless other media like “Victorious”, “Community” and “Spider -Man Homecoming”, to name a few.
“The Breakfast Club” continues to resonate with viewers because this form of expression of the community has the truth behind it. Being locked in a space with people who are completely different forces individuals to see through the superficial facades that each type of personality built. The moment when the characters become vulnerable with each other while sharing what others may not guess at first glance and the dance editing where they let go of all their inhibitions in this library in which they are confined. Through their shared experiences, the characters are starting to see beyond the so-called roles they play and, in turn, understand each other better. With his acute ideas, “The Breakfast Club” reminds the public why they both want and need interpersonal links; These are conduits for self -realization.
Even 40 years after his first, viewers still cherish “The Breakfast Club”. The scene where “Don’t You (forget me)” by Simple Minds is exploded while Bender walks in the football field with his fist in the air will be forever anchored in the minds of viewers. “The Breakfast club” will never be forgotten because it represents who are viewers when their walls are stripped.
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