My Way!

By Javiera Reyes

     3º A

On the past few days, a lot of pictures and references of this movie have appear all over the social media around me, so I decided to watch it and check if it was as good as the people told me it was. I did it, and I got really satisfied. 

 

It’s a movie about stereotypes. The plot it´s simple: Five teens (The rebel one, the athlete, the popular girl, the nerd and the weirdo) that spend the whole Saturday on detention. It’s simple, but it goes farther than that. It shows and destroys every single of those stereotypes. It demonstrates that each teen is deeper that their cliché. 

 

The group, each second that passes by, becomes more and more united till the point where they become friends. 

 

The movie shows what a teenager really is, a combination of emotions and feelings that constantly fight to express at the same time. And even though the context situates at 1984, I’m a 100% sure that today it’s still accurate in a lot of high schools around the world. It’s amazing how this movie, even when it is marked by the tendencies of that time, is so contingent today, 31 years later.

 

For all its contents, I’d recommend it to everyone that wants to see a good movie.