The breakfast club:
Summary: 4.5/5. Good dialogue driven, fun movie that allows teens to see that they are not a stereotype but an individual. Although not laugh out loud.
I watched a dialogue driven movie on a plane with a small screen and horrid audio, with lines constantly cut short with announcements. And I loved every line, every scene and every character. That is the beauty of the coming of age classic The Breakfast Club.
The story is simple. 5 teens go for detention on a saturday morning. They have to spend a whole day at school, together. One is a basketcase, one a criminal, one a nerd, one a princess and one a sports jock. Through their interactions we learn more about who they truly are and slowly learn more about how they landed themselves in detention.
The good:
The chracters are real and extremely well thought out. They each have something inside of them that we see in ourselves. The boy that everyone expects will do nothing with his life is actually a kind and caring person. The person who is weird and quirky does weird things just so people will notice her. And this story is slowly fleshes out the characters, turning them from the various cliched stereotypes to people that are everything at once, that has traits from all the stereotypes. If there was a movie to show that we are not who we seem to be, this is it.
The writing is amazing. In its own clever quirky way it captures the character of each character, and explores more about all the characters in a natural way. It sounds exactly like “teenage talk”. Not the “lol lmao” that Juno gives us but the insightful dialogue that every teenager has somewhere deep inside.
The pacing is amazing too keeping tensiln throughout, and taking the viewer from sad to happy to glad in seconds very naturally.
The meh:
The acting...mmm...well theres a reason none of these actors are extremely well known now. Do they get the job done and deserve a paycheck? Yup. Do they portray the characters in their full beauty and ugliness? Mmmm...nope.
The set design was slightly too easy. Yes we only needed one school but so much more could be done to show the school setting, to show how the teens at that school treated these characters. Banners for prom queen. Signs for wrestling tryouts. Anything to further show how these characters are like as seen from other peers in the school.
It is also extremely unfair to call this a comedy becuase there were very very few scenes where i actually laughed out loud. It was fun and a great time, and i wore a smile the whole time but again the guy sitting beside me on the plane probably didnt even notice me laughing at all.
All in all this is a great movie for any age and hits especially close to heart for a teen. Sincerely, the breakfast club.
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