Film Analysis: Don 'T You Forget About Me'

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Don’t You Forget About Me
The Breakfast Club is a movie that takes five students of different high school social status and puts them together in Saturday detention. As the story line unfolds, they begin to realize that they are not they different. It displays how these teens have to cope with the pressures of their home life and find a place to fit in within high school hierarchy.
The role of Andrew Clark, played by Emilio Estevez, is the popular high school jock. The reason why he’s a wrestler came from pressures of his father and not by his personal choice. He had to prove he is bigger, strong, and faster than the other athletes. I believe he was compared to a race horse. His conflict is that even though his coach and father thinks he’s a winner, he doesn’t believe that himself. He gets detention because he was caught bullying another student. The reasoning for this is for his father, being able to show that he can “cut loose.” We see that he gets extremely emotional about his actions as he begins to break down. He feels terrible about what he has done, and sees no way of being able to correct his actions, or how that student will have to explain what happened to him at school and
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His role is mostly portrayed that as a criminal. He enjoys making others feel uncomfortable and doesn’t hold back on anything he wants to say. Throughout the movie he is constantly called a liar, but it is shown that is only because of his reputation. He in fact tells the truth about most of what is going on. For example, hiding his stash in Brian’s underwear. At home he was constantly abused by his drunk father. It was to the point that the stories seemed to unrealistic and incomprehensible by the others, that he shows some of his scars to prove it. Even though it appears that he only really cares about himself, he ends up taking the heat from Mr. Vernon in order to keep the others from getting into any more