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Funniest thing I have read today:
The Breakfast Club could be seen as Hughes' October, or at least his Reds. In this film, the message is that, after one day in detention (read: the secondary school gulag), five oppressed teens realize that they are trapped in a bogus class system. The culture of high school has brainwashed them into thinking they are separated by a rigid class structure, when, in reality, they are all members of the same class: the proleteeniat. Despite what capitalist society has been telling them, they discover that they are all "a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal." What do they do with this realization? They convene a party congress (read: getting high and dancing to "We Are Not Alone") before writing a manifesto that they hand to the principal like it was the 95 Theses. Is it an accident that the last image of the film features John Bender -- a Trotskyite if there ever was one -- raising a revolutionary fist in the air? Absolutely not. This is a message to the oppressed teens in the audience, an image that calls for permanent revolution not in the world of the film, but in the real world. What else could "Don't You Forget About Me" possibly mean?
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The Breakfast Club could be seen as Hughes' October, or at least his Reds. In this film, the message is that, after one day in detention (read: the secondary school gulag), five oppressed teens realize that they are trapped in a bogus class system. The culture of high school has brainwashed them into thinking they are separated by a rigid class structure, when, in reality, they are all members of the same class: the proleteeniat. Despite what capitalist society has been telling them, they discover that they are all "a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, and a criminal." What do they do with this realization? They convene a party congress (read: getting high and dancing to "We Are Not Alone") before writing a manifesto that they hand to the principal like it was the 95 Theses. Is it an accident that the last image of the film features John Bender -- a Trotskyite if there ever was one -- raising a revolutionary fist in the air? Absolutely not. This is a message to the oppressed teens in the audience, an image that calls for permanent revolution not in the world of the film, but in the real world. What else could "Don't You Forget About Me" possibly mean?
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