Weekend Club John Hughes at one time wrote a lot of scripts for films for family viewing, the most famous of which were probably Home Alone and Beethoven, but he sat in the director's chair quite rarely. “The Weekend Club” was only his second film, but what a success.
Five teenagers are representatives of one of the typical school groups – “princess”, “rock”, “brain”, “bandit”, “weird”. After being punished, Andy, John, Brian, Claire and Alison are forced to spend the day off at school. During this time, they realize that much more versatile personalities than can be determined by the stereotypes corresponding to their groups.
It sounds like my favorite movie, Cafe Dons Plum. It's actually a film of reasoning. In this kind of film, the director touches on certain themes that he tries to uncover during the film. Hughes did it very well.
The film nominally tells about five students of the school who for certain offenses came to the school to serve their sentence. Each of these five people is a certain personality, a certain character. They all have their own philosophy. Someone looks at life with ease, some madness, someone on the contrary takes it too seriously. Throughout the film, such typical problems of the youth of the 80s as the relationship with parents, the suppression of talents, inferiority, love, in the end, are rubbed. Some of them believe in her, some do not. And the most important thing is that people finally understand that the main thing in life is friendship, no matter what the class boundaries between people. Fate can bring people anywhere, but will they remain friends? . .
The film seems to me a kind of revelation of the director. After all, such social dramas are not removed from the velvet bay, and naturally, there is some certain ground before this scenario. I am sure that the character of one of the heroes corresponds to his own. And perhaps the final conversation on the floor is a kind of confession of the creator? Each of the characters of the film learned something new about themselves, although there were statements in themselves impossible to understand. I think that this is not so, and that a person is able to open up new horizons in himself.
Man, this is a great storehouse of something new, unknown, and this is what the director wanted to show.
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