Breakfast Club Movie Review
The Breakfast Club
Chanetta McFerguson
Childhood
April 28, 2013
Melissa Harper
The Breakfast Club
Cliques are groups of people with mutual interests and goals, who spend a majority of their time with each other. They can be found at every high school. The Breakfast Club is a movie that brings five students belonging to different cliques together in an unfortunate situation-detention. At the beginning of the movie, these five students appear to be very different people who have nothing to say to each other. However, throughout the movie, the sanctions of each clique become less relevant, and they find that they themselves have formed their own clique: The Breakfast Club.
Coming into the detention session, each character has a fixation in a stereotypical high school role. Claire is the "princess"; an upper-class, popular socialite who is in detention for ditching class to go shopping. In contrast, Bender is a lower-class (and perhaps abused) young man who has a perception of being a sociopathic "criminal." Because Bender constantly questions and defies authority, he is a detention professional. Andrew (the jock) is a disciplined and driven wrestler who wants to break free from the demands of the athlete role. Brian (the brain) is a straight-A student who struggles with expectations of high grades--and who is experiencing devastation about his recent failures in shop class. Finally, Allison is an ignored introvert who longs for attention and in attempt to receive it, acts like a deviant "basket case."
At the beginning of the session, the determination of the status by the pecking order of the school 's social structure. During the school week, Andrew and Claire have high social status. They recognize their shared status level and sit by each other upon entering the detention session. The two break into conversation about their mutual high-status friends whereas the other detention attendees listen. Brian is probably next in the school status
Chanetta McFerguson
Childhood
April 28, 2013
Melissa Harper
The Breakfast Club
Cliques are groups of people with mutual interests and goals, who spend a majority of their time with each other. They can be found at every high school. The Breakfast Club is a movie that brings five students belonging to different cliques together in an unfortunate situation-detention. At the beginning of the movie, these five students appear to be very different people who have nothing to say to each other. However, throughout the movie, the sanctions of each clique become less relevant, and they find that they themselves have formed their own clique: The Breakfast Club.
Coming into the detention session, each character has a fixation in a stereotypical high school role. Claire is the "princess"; an upper-class, popular socialite who is in detention for ditching class to go shopping. In contrast, Bender is a lower-class (and perhaps abused) young man who has a perception of being a sociopathic "criminal." Because Bender constantly questions and defies authority, he is a detention professional. Andrew (the jock) is a disciplined and driven wrestler who wants to break free from the demands of the athlete role. Brian (the brain) is a straight-A student who struggles with expectations of high grades--and who is experiencing devastation about his recent failures in shop class. Finally, Allison is an ignored introvert who longs for attention and in attempt to receive it, acts like a deviant "basket case."
At the beginning of the session, the determination of the status by the pecking order of the school 's social structure. During the school week, Andrew and Claire have high social status. They recognize their shared status level and sit by each other upon entering the detention session. The two break into conversation about their mutual high-status friends whereas the other detention attendees listen. Brian is probably next in the school status
Cited: Hughes, John (Writer), & Hughes, John (Director). (1985). In Andrew Meyer (Executive producer), The Breakfast Club. , : .