Whoa!! Watching the Breakfast Club for the first time. I didn’t realize that it was Sartre’s NO EXIT. I realized it when Emelio Estevez and the artsy girl were in the hallway, and they ask each other, “What are you in for?” Wow, haha, this is fun.
When Emelio Estevez tells the burnout that he’s lying about his family, because it’s “all part of his image,” and then the guy reveals it’s the truth, it feels like an existential trap, that he thinks his fate is determined.
So, right, the Hollywood ending is that he’ll learn he can change. So will everyone else. But if this really is NO EXIT, then no one is going to change at all by the end of this. It’s going to be painful and tragic. Youch!
The ghostly art girl and the impromptu chase montage are really fun.