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'Breakfast Club, what's wrong?'

  • Writer: Polina Miaktinova
    Polina Miaktinova
  • Jan 13, 2023
  • 2 min read

The story unleashes the teenagers' problems and transitions into adulthood. But what's wrong with the representation happening on the screen?

reen?

John Huges laughs at the viewers' faces by


showing the most evident and sharply cut characters: barbie, Cobain, nerd, sportsman, and weirdo.

What a show of freaks; one glance and the plot falls to your knees, and to keep mocking Huges even puts these thoughts into the discussion characters have in the middle of the movie. So, let's rep up the admiration module; Huges made his bed, and may his case of blatant teen relationships rest.

The characters each moment prove to be who they ought to be - with slight modifications at the end. The Cobain is an impulsive jerk, but what we see - the audience


loves them, 'Georgia and Jinny' - Marcus? And what is the main excuse for them - trauma?

Okay, barbie - obviously wealthy family - diminished problems, no brains and perfect manicure.

However, the reality is not that simple. These characters, as real people, have good and evil, sad and funny, and smart and dull in both of them. And still, his behaviour now looks like a pack of red flags and psychological traumas.

To be transparent, the case of 'Breakfast Club' is an example of the psychological unawareness of the last century, and it's good that we can spot it now, but doesn't it mean that people have become more secretive, more hidden? What I mean is: we don't wanna look inside anymore if our surroundings gonna treat us differently because of this. Yeah - to solve the prob - its needs recognition, but isn't it making people more knowledgeable and less empathic?

Welcome to the breakfast club. If u cherish your child's memory of watching it - DONT rewatch it!


 
 
 

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