Psychology Movie Project

Kevin Hudson
Mrs. Blum
Psych 101
27 Nov. 2014
The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is about a group of high school students who have detention on Saturday. The characters are what people see as stereotypical kids. There is a jock, a prep girl, a trouble maker, a nerd, and a weird person. They argue throughout the whole movie about each others lives, but in the end they all become friends. The film had plenty of social psychology topics in it. Conformity played a major role in the film. An example is when Bender or the trouble maker got all the other people to leave the room with him even though they could get in more trouble. Another time he shut the door when they weren't supposed to and told everyone not to say anything about it and they listened. Another social psychology topic in the film was attitude change. The attitudes that the people had changed throughout the whole movie, one minute they would be fighting and arguing with each other and the next they would be laughing or smiling. There was a time were two of the characters even started crying. One last form of social psychology in the film was stereotyping. In the movie the principal would talk down to Bender as if he was nothing but scum because of how he acted, even the other kids thought he was good for nothing and nobody would care if he was at the school or not. In the movie the turning point in the film is when they all sat in a circle and actually talked to each other about why they were in detention and what they are truly like. They found out how bad everyone's home life is and all ended up becoming friends. My favorite part of the movie is the end when they become friends and also start to like each other. I thought it was a very good ending. What I didn't like about it was nothing I thought it was a great movie and loved watching it.