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Sep. 12th, 2006 03:39 pmMy Entertainment Weekly, of all places, offered up its pick as the No. 1 high school movie, The Breakfast Club, for feminist analysis.
Having just listened to "Don't You Forget About Me" on my iPod, I am back in the zone without having to watch the movie again. ( I believe I'm up to the challenge. )
That felt good. Surprised me, too, that I came to that conclusion after my knee-jerk initial reaction. I don't think I'm even done with this movie, though. I really do love The Breakfast Club. The stereotypes that showed up weren't entirely deconstructed or proven to be false--some people really are brains, some really are jocks, and that's why we have those stereotypes in the first place--just that they're shown to be the simplistic labels we assign people who aren't worth (to us) learning more about. It begs the question, "Well, what if you were forced to learn more about them?" Would you make it a positive experience? Would it matter if it was a positive experience if nothing changed? (I have always been dying to know whether Claire did say "hi" to Brian in the halls, or if Andy would ever put his jacket around Allison's shoulders, but at the same time, if I had the answers, I'd be upset that they were too easy, so it's better, perhaps, to wonder.)
Having just listened to "Don't You Forget About Me" on my iPod, I am back in the zone without having to watch the movie again. ( I believe I'm up to the challenge. )
That felt good. Surprised me, too, that I came to that conclusion after my knee-jerk initial reaction. I don't think I'm even done with this movie, though. I really do love The Breakfast Club. The stereotypes that showed up weren't entirely deconstructed or proven to be false--some people really are brains, some really are jocks, and that's why we have those stereotypes in the first place--just that they're shown to be the simplistic labels we assign people who aren't worth (to us) learning more about. It begs the question, "Well, what if you were forced to learn more about them?" Would you make it a positive experience? Would it matter if it was a positive experience if nothing changed? (I have always been dying to know whether Claire did say "hi" to Brian in the halls, or if Andy would ever put his jacket around Allison's shoulders, but at the same time, if I had the answers, I'd be upset that they were too easy, so it's better, perhaps, to wonder.)
