The fact is, every teen character in this movie can be related to someone we knew in high-school. This movie is one of the best, if not THE best, 80's film there is. Because you can't dismiss something you understand. It exists so that we can remember what it was like and better understand ourselves, and the next generation. It exists for all of us who have already been through there, who feel that they are above it now. "The Breakfast Club" does not exist not for highschool kids, as some suggest. Dig out your old diary or book of angstful poems and reaquaint yourself with who you were then, when you felt things more deeply. If you really want to understand this film, think back to your own high school days. Seeing the movie as you want to see it, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. If you subscribe to that flippant perspective you might as well join Vernon in his office because you are doing the same thing that he did. I have heard it said that "The Breakfast Club" is melodramatic, overacted, and simplistic. John Hughes movie brilliantly captures that environment, that era in our lives, and all the social rifts that we all helped to create for ourselves. A crazy, intense time when your high were higher and your lows were lower, and every experience was that much more significant.
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