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I just finished watching The Breakfast Club, sort of for the hell of it but secretly hoping that it might be just a little profound. No dice. It was pretty out there how the Emilio Estevez character gets ridiculously energetic (doing cartwheels, jumping over bookshelves, furiously playing air guitar) after smoking pot, though. I especially loved,
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I really liked that movie the last time I saw it, a couple weeks ago.
Sure, the jock being attracted to the made-over crazy girl is kinda stupid, but the point was not that she was now "beautiful" because she was dressed and looked as society wants but that from the experiences and new friendships and enlightenment that came from the day she was given a new and totally different outlook on life. The way she was made over was merely a sign of her breaking free of the dark and emotionally-and-otherwise self-harming period in her life. I dunno, when I watched it before I felt the same as you... I was at a point in my life where I thought it was stupid for anyone to go out of their way to look good (make-up, haircuts, clothes, etc). I still think that's overrated to a point, but now I realize that it's less about how people want to look to others and more a sign-of (not a reason for) how they feel about themselves. I know that sounds kinda cliche and shallow, I used to hate people who said that shit to me, but I think there's some truth to it. And I think it has deeper meaning, on a human-psychological sense, than can be put into words (at least by me). That's not to say that I go out of my way to look good. Hell, if I didn't desperately need to wash the grogginess out of my eyes, I probably wouldn't care about taking showers every morning. Then again, you can read from what I've just said how much internal struggle I've been going through in life. I'm only slightly past the "crazy-girl"'s stage in life... it's certainly not happening as quickly for me as it did for her ;)
And, I don't remember the smoking-pot part... I bet they cut that in the TV version. Shame. Yeah, that doesn't seem quite right, maybe it was laced ;) Actually, I dunno, I've gotta think about that one... if that's what was on his mind as something he wanted to try, I could see how pot might do that to him, even if it does seem somewhat contrary to the typical effects...
And cheesy 80's-ish music? Shit, some of that stuff is awesome. I especially love the over-use of new experimentations in electronic sound... echos, cheesy synthesized sounds, overdubbing of voices dozens of times... So much great energy, even cheesy, can't be all bad... maybe just a little bit overdone and lacking depth. But, I think there may be more depth there than we give them credit for... it's just hidden behind the overuse of cheese ;)
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