The Breakfast Club turns 25 years old today. This is the 30th year of Miracle On Ice.
After 44 years on this planet, I look at this and I guess it could give me the blues about getting older but it really doesn’t. The Breakfast Club was probably the last John Hughes film that resonated with me deeply from that era. I’ve realized recently that we live life in chapters. Every protagonist has an antagonist and not every chapter in the book has a happy ending. If we look at the book of life, the ending is always the same.
So we live life like eating a candy bar. You don’t shove an entire Snickers bar into your mouth at once, you take bite-sized chunks off of it, you swallow it and then you take another bite. Sometimes you set it down, waiting until your ready for another bite before you gnaw off another piece. Eventually you finish the damned thing, but you know, it’s each bite that tells the story and gives you the undeniable flavor that makes you want another bite.
Maybe I’m getting used to being older. Sometimes it’s perfectly fine having the gray in my hair, but there are other times that I wonder if I could do it all over again.
I think not.
“Sometimes it’s perfectly fine having the gray in my hair, but there are other times that I wonder if I could do it all over again.
I think not.”
This reminds me of the movie with Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage called Peggy Sue Got Married.
I will be 40 this year and remember the “brat pack” movies fondly. Thanks for posting this.
Sometimes you share your Snickers. 000
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I used to just love Molly and her cute movies. My favorites being Pretty in pink and the Pick up artist.
The breakfast club however was most likely the very best of that type of movie.
It had it all and showed people (in a very cheesy way) that no matter who we are.. we are all kinda the same.
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