There was another post that got deleted which made me interested in “The Breakfast Club”. Maybe we can continue the discussion here?
People said Allison is a cool character and that people like Allison turned out to be good people in their experience. What do you think about that?
Others said, you must see this movie if you’re one of those “movie nerds” as it’s cinematographically competent. @southsamurai@sh.itjust.works wrote a whole essay on it (thanks btw).
What other movies tried to copy The Breakfast Club and failed? Or succeeded?
I was the age of the characters in the movie when the movie came out. I don’t think the movie had any significant impact on our generation or culture or society, but it was extremely impactful on how we felt. Keep in mind that there was no world wide web or cell phones then, so the act of viewing a movie and sharing it with friends* was different than than it is now.
I don’t feel changed by the movie, but I loved it. It felt rebellious and very relatable. And I had a major crush on Ally Sheedy.
“People like Allison”? Does that mean emo people (which we called goths back then)? Kleptos? Rebels? Loners? Outcasts?
*By “friends”, I mean actual friends. We didn’t have Facebook “friends” or “influencers” or Insta followers or tiktokkers or whatever else exists today. We shared things with a few people we liked, not uncountable people we would never meet or speak to.