I know from "Perfect Pitch" that "Breakfast Club" is really a youth film that is not campus at all. There is no story, no main line, just the intermittent conversations of five students who were detained in school.
"Who am I? Who are you?"
We speak with our mouth open every day, but we rarely have real communication, so that we can't touch this most basic and essential problem at all.
These bizarre boys and girls who were forced to spend a day together sarcastically attacked each other, starting a sincere dialogue from no one looking down on anyone. The changes made people feel moved and yearned.
As a matter of fact, real communication often coexists with pain. Because every conflict will bring scars and gaps, if we face it properly and talk consciously, we may heal it.
It's a pity, we are all too afraid of trouble, too afraid of this kind of pain, so simply, we are mediocre, we agree, we are nonsense, in order to avoid the torn of conflict.
In fact, why don't we understand? With some people, we can never commit or talk about real problems. And with some really important people, we are afraid to touch real problems with him. Because this may mean hurting each other or even the breakdown of intimacy.
So we have been lonely, and often think that we are more lonely than others.
The most real thing about the movie is in the ending part. All five people confessed to tears and burst into tears, but they still agreed that when they meet on Monday, they will not become friends. They will still return to those "so-called friends" and "so-called identities", and be the normal selves in the eyes of others.
However, I am not sorry for this either.
It is a pity that most people fail to connect with the truly important people, but enjoy the temporary illusion of problem solved in the occasional drunken dream.
We would rather numb ourselves than face the pain-this is why we cannot be cured.
Be brave, we are alone.
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