Dear Mr. Vernon,
We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong...but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...
...and an athlete...
...and a basket case...
...a princess...
...and a criminal...
Does that answer your question?
Sincerely yours,
The Breakfast Club
This movie deserves the cliche of being called a classic, because that's exactly what it is. An age old story of self discovery, this movie shows us that we all aren't that different from one another when we fight the common enemy. (Non Sequitar: 1984 kind of says that too, when we fight a common enemy we can be united "War is Peace"... just saying). When these five students from opposite ends of the social spectrum come together they learn about themselves and about the bullshit social stigmas that have been proliferated by a society bent on holding us together by pulling us apart. If we can be lumped into molded cookie cutter social shapes, it is easier to manage us, judge us, and place us in our parents' society. Once we realize how absolutely full of horse shit our parents' society is, only then can we realize that we are more than the models that we have made ourselves, we are not just a brain, or an athlete, or a basket case, or a princess, or a criminal. We are all of these because we are more complex, we are more difficult to judge, we are human.
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