A movie that means something to me is The Breakfast Club. The movie was released in 1985 and stars five teenagers from various backgrounds. The movie takes place when five students arrived at detention on a Saturday under supervision of their principle. Among this group of rebels were John the criminal and bad boy, Claire the princess and diva, Brian the nerd, Andrew the athlete and typical jock, and lastly Allison the outcast and the weird girl. This movie shows how people of diverse backgrounds can still connect with each other. No one has what could be considered a perfect life in family or in school, everyone has different trials.
All the teens think they have it worse than one another this results in arguments amongst the group of rag tags but in the end, they realize that they all face different issues in their social life and in their private life. The athlete with his problem of having to balance school and sports, the nerd who must live up to his expectations and the prep who has to be the perfect image in every sense of the word. These problems are quite different than the problem that the criminal faces with his abusive father and the outcast feeling alone in the world but they are issues that these teens feel they must face alone. In the movie, they eventually talk to and help each other while building trust in one another.
In conclusion, this movie has helped me understand how everyone goes through something different but no one should compare themselves to someone else because your story is specific to you, although you may think your situation is awful and someone else’s life is perfect we should stop to think beyond what we see. Especially in today’s society, we compare ourselves to people we see on tv but we should consider what goes on in their head that they may be facing alone. For these reasons, I feel that The Breakfast Club is a very meaningful movie to me.