As regular readers of this blog know, I love Entertainment Weekly. I get especially moist when they publish their lists. Their latest, the 50 Best High School Movies, is no exception, but for one glaring flaw: they named The Breakfast Club the best high school movie of all time, when the clear choice is Dazed and Confused (which they put at No. 3).
I wouldn’t be writing this post if I were just quibbling with the order of the list. I am more disturbed by their exaltation of The Breakfast Club because what that movie represents. It is an embodiment of the “big lie” of teen movies: the myth that cliques are mutually exclusive entities.
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