“We’re all pretty bizarre, some of us are just better at hiding it, thats all.” a quote by Andrew (Emilio Estevez) in the 1980’s film, The Breakfast Club, heard around the world once the movie hit the theaters making an impact on millions and forever holding a special place in our hearts. Whether you're an incoming high school freshman, college freshman or even just relocating to a new home, this film shows you that even though everyone is very different from each other, we’re all still just people and we all have things that we go through.
There will always be that someone you wish you could be, some life you wish to switch places with, just as there will always be someone who wishes they had the life you live. Society has placed a label on anything and anyone it can get its hands on, especially people. Going into any new situation there is always going to be the “popular” crowd as well as the “nerdy” crowd. There’s the misfits and the prom queens, the jocks and the geeks, the burn outs and those that will go on to win the Nobel Prize. No matter where you go in the world, there will be all different kinds of social cliques with many different people inhabiting them, the crowed you decide to associate with will label you until the day you stop letting it. Society doesn't care how you see or label yourself, its the group of people you associate with that shows who you are, even if you're not that person you become guilty by association. Some people don’t even get a choice, they’re labeled at a very young age and can't find the voice to stand up and be who they want to be simply out of fear. No one wants to be the person who disappoints their friends or their family, but how much is too much? The Breakfast Club taught us that if you put five completely different people in the same room for a Saturday, they’ll end up with more in common than they thought and feel pretty stupid for every thinking that they were the only person with problems.
Just because someone dresses differently than you or acts a certain way in which you might not act, doesn't make them weird. It doesn't mean their way of living is wrong, it's just different they you may be used to. They are affected by a lot of the same things that you're affected by. The five students in the Breakfast club sharing detention together didn't know much of anything about each other, only what they could see. It was obvious who who was the rich and who was the poor, the popular and the geeky. They talked (gasp!) with each other and figured out they weren't just the label they were perceived to be, they were people.
Five different kids from all with different backgrounds and cliques, spent an entire day locked up in a room with people they wouldn't normally make conversation with. In fact, prior to detention, the only things they knew about each other were the things they had only heard or assumed. The meaning of this movie is far more important than anything I myself have ever seen; no matter where you come from or what you've been through, theres always someone going through the same exact thing. When you get right down to it, we are one human race- looking for the same core principles that come with life. We all want love, affection, attention, to be heard and not stuck. “Well everyone's home lives are unsatisfying. If it wasn't, people would live with their parents forever,” a quote by Andrew that shows everyone in detention that day was dealing with their own issues, but all would become better with time. They were all going through high school together, it was bad enough without the judgment of their fellow classmates. By the end of the day, they all became friends, some even more, but they finally put their differences aside and saw the bigger picture.
