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Subject: The Breakfast Club (not a review, but a comment)
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Date: Mon, 15-Apr-85 19:36:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr 15 19:36:30 1985
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	So there has been some argument about "The Breakfast Club" on the
net, I hear. I went to see the movie and I loved it. It meant more to
me than "The Big Chill," which is a movie in the same vein. I am only
twenty, close to high school if you like. The movie was a good movie.
It made a statement and was very well-acted.

	A lot of netters are saying, "The characters were such stereotypes!"
They were supposed to be stereotypes. There is an old Hindu saying: "we
are all stereotypes until we rise above ourselves." That phrase sums up
the whole point of "The Breakfast Club."

	And to Raoul Duke (jla@usl), who said:

> I much preferred the recluse before her metamorphosis; not only did I
> fine her more attractive but I thought it awful that she would give up
> her individuality to someone else's idea of beauty.

	Well, Raoul...souns to me like you are trying to tell us what her
idea of beauty was. Did it ever cross your mind that Allison could have
had the same idea of beauty as Claire? Hmm? Does a girl have to give
up her individuality to wear makeup and change her hair-style? 
Because if that is true, then a man loses his individuality every time
he puts on a new shirt of combs his hair differently. It's all surface
stuff, Duke. What counts IS what's inside.

	Any flames? Send me mail. I love mail. It gets me through the nights
here.

Tracy A. McInvale
New Mexico Humanities Review
Socorro, NM  87801
nmhr@nmt