The Breakfast Club 1985 by AverageMansReviews

The Breakfast Club 1985 by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there is stabbing/drugs/child-abuse/scarring/reference to domestic violence and suicide.

Welcome to the club: it is Saturday 24/03/1985 Location Shermer High School, five students are here at 7 AM for a whole day of detention: the first one up is Andrew Clark a " Athletic" [Emilio Estevez,] next we have Claire Standish a " Princess" [Molly Ringwald,] Brian Johnson a "Brain" [Anthony Michael Hall,] Allison Reynolds a "Basket Case" [Ally Sheedy] and finally John Bender a " Criminal" [Judd Nelson.] The only people that are on this location with these kids are Vice Principal Richard [Paul Gleason] which he is a ruthless in the way these pupils and he assigns them with 8 hours and 54 minutes; a no less than 1000 word essay on who they think they are? No one word repeated 1000 times. We also have Carl Reed [John Kapelos] a janitor at Shermer High School the storyline is designed to be a location-based/situation based film, meaning yes they discuss how they got into this situation, but we don't see it or after this once again yes they discuss it in this location, but they just focus on here and now. The pacing of this 97 minutes film is very much like its storyline it has lots to cover so it has to be fluent in its movement even when there are masses of dialogue exchanges.

Comedy, action; and art there are comical moments in the dialogue exchanges, without giving too much away we also Bender climbing up and through the ceiling to get back to the rest of our Breakfast Club, sadly on his way back it doesn't exactly go smoothly as he falls through the ceiling and the rest of them quickly cover up for as the Vice Principal comes in enquiring I am paraphrasing and in a nutshell asking what was that? With the rest of them making sound effects to convince him that was the sound but he doesn't buy it, but he leaves them to it. Then later on we have these characters listening to music, dancing and under the influence of marijuana; the art is the dance moves I don't know if it was choreographer or if it comes from the characters/performers themselves; but this is good and good comedy as well.

The really clear thing about this film is something of fantastic value even by today's standards roughly 37 years later. When this review was first dictated in 2022, to be brutally honest we have failed in what this film represents not only have we failed we have spectacularly made it so much worse than this was, it's like they must have seen into the future, potentially borrowed the DeLorean from Doc Brown and looked into 2022 and gone "Man we need to give them a warning now whilst we still have time to affect the present and consequently the future."

Yes I may as well talk about the elephant in the room briefly there are no ethnic characters or any members of LGBT+ community, but if you can see past all of this. You can clearly see what they are talking about we are all the same, but with little differences. This is me now talking from someone in 2022, it depends how big we as individuals want to make our differences; yes I am talking about the differences I can make and not the ones I can't not from a hard brick wall, I am talking about the ones like being disabled with mental health on top. When it is appropriate to talk to for an example any woman of ethnic background of 18 or older then I try, I just chosen something easy but the point is still valid that I try to talk to different people from different backgrounds. But generally speaking everyone is hiding or protecting their section of society behind their brick walls and forgetting or screwing everyone else up in the process.

The character developments and performances are what make this film a classic; because as I have shown using their basic core character developments type by their names; they feel they are social standings including home life with their families and A lack of nurturing environment on a quick side note if any parents watch this film as well; these characters discuss and show the ramifications of the pressure you may or may not be putting them under or in fairness and balance you may not even know, this film may begin an open dialogue with the children [age-appropriate for this film] to discuss things in a different way. But this cast put in timeless performances, generally speaking it goes like a subject potentially comedy or just light and then deep and intense or it backs off and then goes in deep again or backs off and moves on [I am trying not to be too specific just in case they missed something out,] but my point being here is it just knows how to approach, discuss and move on if need be depending where you are in this film at this time. Like the majority of this cast received a Winning award for their performances MTV Movie + TV Awards 2005; Silver Bucket of Excellence Award; Anthony Michael Hall Judd Nelson Molly Ringwald Ally Sheedy.

This film receives: 10/10, this film is top-notch entertainment: this film is a legendary and classic coming-of-age drama that you definitely need to watch before you die and just a quick and special mention we get a written quote as in it is text on screen from the musician legend David Bowie right at the start of this film. This film has 4 awards accredited to its name and all 4 are winners including the one I have already mentioned National Film Preservation Board, USA 2016 National Film Registry National Film Preservation Board, Online Film & Television Association 2021 OFTA Film Hall of Fame Songs "Don't You (Forget About Me)" and Online Film & Television Association 2020 OFTA Film Hall of Fame Motion Picture.