Both “The Breakfast Club” and “Whiplash” provide a spectacular yet complex insight into the lives of young adolescence and their struggles with relationships and violence as well as developing their identity and battling anxiety while facing the pressures from teachers, parents and themselves. Both movies end by leaving the audience in a state of wonder as it is unclear if the characters have truly learned from their experiences or if they will relapse into their original, unhealthy lifestyles. It can be questioned whether “Whiplash” specifically glorifies such twisted adolescence development and the audience wonders if such a dramatic push is required to reach ones goals. No doubt that both movies may have their flaws in portraying specific
