If any person of my age group is questioned what their preferred motion picture of all times is, many of them will name ‘The Breakfast Club’ one of the top three on the list without any hesitation. The movie is a faultless instance of patrician relations in the teenage culture. It presents the viewer with an opportunity to comprehend some of the chief typecasts of scholars in high school; in the movie, there is a jock, a geek, a freak, a rioter, and a conformist.
During a Saturday detention in the high school, the various categories of landed gentry absorb a lot of information about each other by sharing the stories of how the young men appeared in the Saturday detention, along with discussing the reasons for doing what they have done. The movie is quite significant and meaningful for me, as it teaches about stereotyping among different kinds of people and its consequences.
Stereotypes are apparent and artificial; furthermore, when they are unwrapped, they frequently expose something entirely unforeseen. In ‘The Breakfast Club,’ adolescents have been conscious of their patterns for a fairly long time. Nonetheless, after they have spent a whole day in a company of each other, they discover that they share more traits than they ever comprehended.
After these patterns are ruined, it becomes obvious that every person has strong and weak points, which grant them the ability to relate to each other in a method that was not imaginable earlier. Distinguishing a standard will frequently generate a refusal of that stereotype. In ‘The Breakfast Club,’ when Claire labels Allison as strange, Andrew tells the group that they all are strange (The Breakfast Club, 1985). In declaring this judgment, he initiates to refuse the stereotypes and associate resemblances instead of alterations.
When these stereotypes are disallowed, they have to be substituted with something different; the individual who was categorized other people has to discover his distinct uniqueness. In ‘The Breakfast Club,’ the main figures attack the uniqueness of a person from a dissimilar viewpoint. Rather than declaring their uniqueness by concentrating on their alterations, they block the societal limitations of their schoolmates, become associates for one day and focus instead for the sake of their mutual benefit.
If a person denies his stereotypes, he regularly understands that the stereotype is, in fact, a piece of their personality. Refusing a stereotype could involve merely discovering other features that were never displayed earlier.
Work Cited
The Breakfast Club. Dir. John Hughes. Universal City Studios. 1985. Film.