A "student tyrant", a "sportsman", a "dance floor queen", a "campus hooligan", and a lonely "freak". It's hard to imagine that these few people who have little intersection will meet, know each other, understand and comfort each other in one morning. This is probably the most fascinating aspect of "Breakfast Club".
At the same time, what made us quickly recognize these extraordinary characters in the ordinary? Why do we have such a vivid impression of these characters? I think that in addition to the director's solid film language expression skills, our latent cognitive "labeling" model has played a big role, and this "labeling" may also be one of the many views that the director wants to share with our audience. How do we "label" them, and how do the individuals in the label understand each other?
Let me talk about my views on labelism first. With the proliferation of consumerism, "label-style" thinking has more and more impact on people's thinking. People all agree with the method of "using labels to distinguish commodities, so as to achieve the purpose of rapid classification and rapid selection". As a result, it migrated to the relationship between people in parallel, so the "labeled" cognitive method was born. In a fast-paced society, it is difficult for people to understand each other deeply in the short-term process of getting along. Therefore, people tend to classify the new individual in front of him, transforming the unknown into the known, and the unfamiliar into the familiar. After that, people will have a sense of relative security and a certain psychological advantage in their hearts, believing that they can quickly carry out further exchanges on the basis of grasping the "label" of the other party. But this approach does make us more adaptable to recognize things and recognize others in a fast-paced society. For example, seeing the beautiful and sociable daughter Claire, the "dance floor queen" is ready to come out; the tall, strong and well-developed Andrew, the "athleteman" comes into view. These typical characteristics lead us to recognize these characters, and because of the cognition of these "labels", we seem to easily get their other characteristics.
This approach has both pros and cons. For individuals at the micro level, grasping the core performance characteristics of other people in a short period of time is conducive to deepening mutual impressions, grasping the key points in the cognitive process, and improving cognitive efficiency.
But this kind of "labeled" cognition is often one-sided and subjective. Subjectivity lies in the above mentioned. People usually use their own personal cognitive reserve as the basis. After independent and independent analysis, they can safely add "labels" to people. Such "labels" may not be consistent with the essence of other people. In terms of one-sidedness, for the average social expression ability, it is difficult for one side to show one's complete appearance. This results in the recipient itself being in the position of "seeing the leopard in the tube"; and the "label" means some particularity, which is grasping the special appearance. It is also possible to ignore or hardly perceive the deep-seated personality of others during sex. Who cares what kind of world is in the hearts of "freaks", "students", "sports masters", "dance floor queens" and "rogue ruffians"? With a flick of your finger, hurriedly passing by, you and I will only leave a few shallow marks on the bottom of my heart.
From this perspective, "Breakfast Club" deeply portrays the understanding of the "labeled" model of American campuses. In the campus, there are so many students and it is difficult for teachers to fully understand these children. Only a few words or let the teacher secretly post it to the students. Label". As for the students because of various reasons, or the teacher's criticism, or the simple and superficial actions of others, it is difficult for them to have a deeper understanding of the individual in front of them. The easy-to-remember "tags" help them divide people from one person to another. Categorize, use secular or empirical standards to measure other students, and use quantitative thinking to compare with those students. The school has become a place to hide the true heart and the first place to practice labeling.
Please think about the question again, do you live for the way other people see it, or live for the way you see it in your heart? I believe that different people will have different judgment choices. The results of those "label" feedbacks are also different when they are sent out. Some people move closer to the labels and try to manage themselves to make themselves like labels; others are cynical and use their energy to get rid of these labels. Just like Andrew under the "Education for the Strong" model, he doesn't know why he wants to bully other classmates. He just thinks that such behavior conforms to his "label" and his father's "expectations" of him.
The so-called "good boy" Ralph, under his label of "student master", can hardly accept any academic failure. After dropping out of the manual class, he prepared a gun for himself-although it was just a flare gun. These people have changed their own minds, lost their original shape as "people", and lost their true self, which is otherwise difficult to discover, in campus life.
And what about Bend, the "campus criminal" who seems the most indifferent to "labels"? On the surface, he disagrees with and resists all the mainstream values of society. At the same time, due to the extremely bad family environment, he believes that he has a deep understanding of the social structure and the relationship between the upper class and the lower class. However, this precisely reflects his inner heart for the society. Accepting and acquiescing to social values, he is actually the type of person who cares most about the label on his body, and most care about the influence of the label on him. It was he who was the first to "see through" different people with different "labels", it is impossible for him to understand and recognize each other. But after all, he was moved by the simplest and simplest emotional connection between people, melted by the warmth of his classmates. He finally shook his fist to the sky, at least indicating that he was ready to move forward towards a better tomorrow.
Therefore, I think these labels are just the understanding of the outside society for us, not the essence. For independent individuals, we should not forget our original intentions and stick to our original intentions. At the same time, we should also try to avoid superficial label identification methods, observe others with the most sincere heart, and fully understand others. And expand your circle of friends, step out of book theory, step out of stereotypes, step out of solidified thinking, and accept other individuals with different characteristics. With time, you will thoroughly understand the shortcomings of label thinking.
After all, we are all bloody lives and should not be labeled as cold.
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