Sitting in front of the television tonight I had the fortune to watch what turns out to be a classic, most profound movie. A movie that in the least should be mandatory viewing to all of the intellectual elite and social engineers of the public educational system. The Breakfast Club. Has it really been over twenty years since this movie first came out? I was in high school and I remember it being good then. A statement to the adults not to judge us kids/young adults and not to stereo type us.
We thought it spoke loudly as to our coming of age and individuality. A punk, a jock, a princess, a dweeb, and a wierdo. Yet are we not all that wrapped into one. As the paper said, we learned that though we were different outwardly, inside we are the same.
Watching it tonight I realize just how significant this movie is and the genius behind the script. Life hasn't changed at all. Though the rules to growing up may be a little different today then they were twenty or thirty years ago, the end results of how it is played are the same. Do not accept the lie of we are all equal. Or that we have to be politically correct. Lord knows there was no way that Judd Nelson was politically correct on his calling it like he saw it. The speaking of the truth hurt Molly Ringwald but only for a little while as the truth came forth and she and the rest of the Breakfast Club learned.
Physical confrontation happens. As when Emilo Estevez and Judd Nelson got into a fight early on. Arguments are over little things of no importance. Self retrospect tends to lead to a laugh. As we learned Michael Anthony Hall was going to committe suicide with a flare gun. We learn that book smarts does not make one automatically good at vocational skills. Michael Hall could not make his shop project of a lamp work. He recieved a failing grade. We all fail at the simplest task. This does not diminish ones worth. We learned that Judd Nelson was more observant and learned in the behavior of his fellow human then others. His experiance came from life. A tough lesson for sure.
We learned that some people cry out for attention. Allie Shedie, for no other reason spent her saturday in detention trying to reach out in her way for human compassion. A common feeling amongst all who remember their teenage years. Allie just did not have the people skills.
How much of this rings a bell with you the reader of this blog? Can you recall how it felt to grow up. Sometimes the isolation you felt in a room of family was overbearing. The self impossed pressure created in order to convince yourself you were living up to false expectations self imposed in order to please someone.
Our good faithful facutly supervisor. Caught in the act of looking at persoel files by Carl the janitor. Trying to get the edge on his fellow teachers for some reason down the road only he knew of. Costing him fifty dollars for Carl to remain silent about it. Then Carl the janitor. Not dumb but knowledgable. The eyes and ears of the school institution. Carl, probably considerd a looser by most yet a wise man knowing all that happens with in his domain. A friend to each group of kids and friend to none. Knowing what they thought , what they did and where , when and to who. The lesson of Carl, there is someone who sees what is happening and knows what you are doing.
The lesson of the teacher, respect to your students and they will respect you back. Do not take their actions lightly as once you were like them. Think back on the stupid things you tried to get away with or thought you got away with as a younger person.
Overall this movie shows us that basic common courtesies will go along way in life. The truth may hurt for a while, but lies anmd deceit will avail one nothing. Pressures come and pressures go. How you look at them and handle them is what is important. That we are all mortal, yet can be imortal by our acts.

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