Movie Analysis: The Breakfast Club

As a child, I had a love for many movies, but I had a special love for a specific movie, The Breakfast Club. My Father says that I would sit in front of the Television and watch this movie for hours at a time. Some would believe that it is odd for a child, my age, to love the movies that I do. Ever since I can remember, I have had a love for movies from the 80’s. My favorites included: Sixteen Candles (1984), The Goonies (1985), Beetlejuice (1988), and especially Dirty Dancing (1987). Actually, it is not just the movies that I love, I am also in love with all of the music of that decade as well. But anyway, The Breakfast Club is a movie about five High School students that are in detention for various reasons that you learn in the later parts …show more content…
As a child, I had absolutely no idea that that was actually what High School was like. I thought that the movie was just about a group of people that, just so happen, to be in detention together. The thought never crossed my mind that I was watching a very realistic version of what people go through every day. The main characters represent the effects of peer pressure, parent influence, and child abuse: The exact struggles that many students go through today. The characters all have a reason that they attended detention on that Saturday morning, such as: the very popular, Claire, decided to skip class with her “friends” to go shopping, the other popular person, Andrew, was in detention because he taped a poor guy’s butt cheeks together because he felt that his father would be proud of him if he did. Then there is Bender, he pulled the fire alarm at school, which was not a surprise to anyone because he was always into some kind of mischief. Also, there is Clark, he is the brains of the group, and he brought a gun to school with the intentions of killing himself. And finally, there is Allison, she is an awkward girl that is also a compulsive liar that has absolutely nothing better to do with her day than to come to detention. As an adult, I realize that I can relate to at least a small part of every situation, and I believe that is the reason that …show more content…
Claire and Bender pair off and show that even the highest of popular people can fall for a lower status person. Andrew and Allison also pair off, another example of the same situation. This realization never occurred to me until I rediscovered the movie a few years ago, as a teenager. When I was younger, I never thought about the pressure there is to be with someone of your status, I just thought that when you meet someone you really care for, that that is who you are with, no questions