Social Barriers In The Breakfast Club

We all have our favorite movies. We chose them because maybe we can relate to the plot on a personal level, or they take us to a different world on an adventure for a while. In The Breakfast Club, the director John Hughes uses music, dialogue and backstory to bring out the similarities the kids have behind social barriers because he wants people watching to see how no matter how different people seem, we may have more in common than meets the eye. Music plays a big role throughout this classic 1980’s movie. There are two specific scenes that come to mind when I think about music and this movie, and one main song. The first scene would be after the five kids get high, they put on a vinyl and all dance together. This is a huge turning point in the movie because when the five of them first get to detention, they want nothing to do with each other. They are just there to do their time and get out. By the time the movie gets to this …show more content…
He was just thrown into that classification of nerdy because he cares about his grades and has different interests than sports. When the five of them are sitting in a circle telling their deepest secrets and fears, you learn something about him you wouldn’t expect. He took a woods class for an easy grade, assuming that if he can do high level math he can make a birdhouse. The truth is however, that he gets an F on a project. For him and his parents that is just not acceptable. He brings a gun to school, planning to attempt to kill himself, because death is more acceptable than an F. “Whats going to happen to us on Monday? When we’re all together again?” This quote from him groups together the five different stereotypes he has witnessed break down in front of him. The idea that he asked this shows he’s worried for the future. That this one day spent in detention may not matter the next time they see each other. (The Breakfast