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The Breakfast Club (1985)
Rate:
3
Viewed:
3/03, 4/04, 6/25
6/25:
Serious conversations and kids are like oil and water; they don't mix.
That's what I thought while watching The Breakfast Club. These high schoolers are obviously from the
upper middle class by the way they spoke. John Bender? I've never met somebody from the wrong side of the
tracks to be this eloquent. Everybody's problems sound low-level. Let's try the following for a change:
Male student #1: There's a bully who stalks me before, during, and after school. He likes to punch me
on my arm or my head several times each day. This has been going on for years. I've been cutting myself on my
wrists, my arms, my legs, and so on.
Female student #1: My father died a while ago. My mother is on crack. I have eleven brothers and
sisters, and I am the oldest. We live in a motel, and I have to work after school from 3 to 11 PM to make
ends meet. I have another job on weekends, working ten hours per day.
Male student #2: I have AIDS. I've been pissing blood daily. My doctors say I have a couple of years
to live. Any ideas? Oh, yeah...I am not gay; I got this from blood transfusion.
Female student #2: My brother won't stop touching me. We would have sex all the time. I told my mommy
and daddy, but they won't believe me. I'm afraid of going to the cops because it will break up my family and
I'll be placed in a foster home.
Male student #3: I live in the projects. There are drug dealers all over the place. Almost every day,
there's always somebody killed. I have to put up with it every time I step out of the door for school,
groceries, whatever. Somebody robbed me last week, and that was like the 20th time this year.
Real problems, you know what I mean? Then again, why would they say this to each other despite not being
friends? Oh, yeah...whenever there's a monitor needed for detention, s/he always stays in the room and
actually watches the students! At least, none of the young stars, save for Emilio Estevez, stayed
relevant after 1986. That's because they were all bad!
All in all, when Judd Nelson threw up his fist at the end, that's how I felt by not wanting any more of
The Breakfast Club.