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The Breakfast Club (1985)

This film is one of the most influential films I have ever watched. It reaches out to you - and you are touched by it. No matter what little sub-culture you were shifted into whilst going through the trials and tribulations of Secondary school you could relate to it.

It may have been clich

Tales of teenage-a very popular concept in storytelling. John Hughes retells this much-used concept in a slightly altered format. Five students representing five different cliques are stranded in the school library in a Saturday morning, facing detention. Authoritative principal Vernon orders the students to write an essay about their characters and submit. The students tolerate each other for the initial hours,strictly avoiding socializing in fear of blurring the lines between their cliques. But the bad boy in the group,Bender harasses the prom-queen,Claire and this event gets them talking. Furthermore as they smoke pot,their tongues loosen,and so does their minds and these youngsters socialize leading the audience as well as the characters to some appalling truths.
The background is very important for proper development of the attitude and faculties of a child. Each student represent a strata of the student milieu -the shy, brainy one (Brian),the eccentric and neurotic (Allison),the sports achiever who is constantly pressurized(Andrew),the swaggering hooligan(John Bender) and the coquettish prom queen (Claire). And,these branding has been done by society and these have affected the children to isolate themselves in respective coteries. Each of them have unstable,unsympathetic family who cannot assure their anxieties. While they get to know with other,they discover,and along with them,we audience find out the dark secrets which lurk in the lives of unhappy,unexpected behavior of teenagers.