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The five teens baring their souls to each other in detention
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This film, one of the best films John Hughes ever made, was incredible because it captured so accurately the life that is high school,
or at least life in high school in the mid 1980's. It does this by conveniently placing five students in detention who each is different
from the other, representing the five different factions, if you will, that seem to exist in any school setting -- it's these factions
that place the divides between students, where some are the popular ones, some are the nerds, some are the sports jocks, some
are the strange ones, some are the cheerleaders, etc, etc. In this well-written and honestly performed sequence from the film,
it's nearing the end of their day-long detention and the five, so different from each other on the surface, bare their souls to each
other, and it becomes obvious that every one of them has problems, every one is struggling, and all are looking for acceptance in
one way or another. And by the end, they become friends. It tells us if we just get to know each other, what's on the surface
doesn't matter -- because we're a lot more alike than you might think.