Nithini Perera

This is a movie that has lived through decades and so, I had high hopes for 'The Breakfast club'. Yet the movie justified the name it carries with it. The five teenagers who could not be more different from each other find themselves together in the iconic breakfast club. And thus the club transforms from a mere detention centre for rowdy high schoolers to a place of acceptance and liberation- where the teenagers begin to open up and let their guards down. However it is not the complexity interwoven to the characters and their shared theme of troubled childhoods that stands out in this move, it is the director's commendable efforts to portray the complexity of the adult world through the children. As John Bender's hilarious imitation of each of their families unveils the character's 'unsatisfying' life at home, each and every moment in the movie appears latent with such depth and complexity that is so cohesively inserted in to the context of the story which revolves teenagers, and on a deeper level, the universal struggle for individuality and acceptance. 'The Breakfast Club' is a movie that redefines classics. It will be entrenched in your heart and with it and with it, bring nostalgia- however of the warmest sort.