At one time or another, a movie is made about every generation. Dazed and Confused is for the 1970's group of Americans (during the coming of age) when bellbottoms and marijuana were the fashion, drinking and driving had yet to become unthinkable, and safe sex was used only to avoid pregnancy. The Breakfast Club is a remembrance of the 1980's era of pegged jeans, glitter and leg warmers, when AIDS started but only through rumors, and drugs were the only escape. Throughout the precedent decades teens in schools across the country experience a society that consists of social groups, also known as cliques. Cliques, which are natural to American society, can take the concentration off of the anxiety and reason each teenager sets foot in a high school. Dazed and Confused and The Breakfast Club are perfect examples of the typical American high school.

Dazed and Confused follows the lives of various groups of teenagers, during the last day of school in 1976, as they stray around their hometown. The movie is all about their philosophies on life, work, love and especially

These people, the geeks, the future criminals, and the outcasts... they were no different from my high school really. They were just as scared as I was, had the same thoughts and emotions and experienced the same pressure as I did. I had just never had a chance to talk to them honestly. Every teen character in these movies can be related to someone we knew in high school. They all exist, to some degree or another, in the classrooms of every high school. These five characters in the Breakfast Club would normally never associate with each other, but the circumstances force them to get to know each other and eventually become friends. In Dazed and Confused however, drugs and alcohol brings the kids together to celebrate the last day of school. Many don't like the role they portrayed in the high-school scene but it is practically inescapable.

Taking place almost entirely in a high school library, The Breakfast Club, is about five completely different students spending their Saturday in detention for one wrongdoing or another or even because they had nothing else to do. This is a perfect representative cross

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