By Mark Thole
This is a great movie about five different groups of kids in High School. They fight about each other’s differences and are confronted about their problems. The movie has so much similarity to our school and how we fight because of our differences, a Jock, Nerd, Rebel, Prom Queen, and a Basket case. They all have to spend a day in Saturday detention.
The movie starts out with all the kids sitting in the library and they are all assigned to write a report on themselves. Of course there is tension between each of them, like the jock and the rebel. They are both on a power trip and want to prove that each other is stronger. The rebel also starts problems with the prom queen. He doesn’t like how her daddy buys her everything and he gets nothing. Then the rebel and the nerd have a little quarrel because the rebel tries to compare his life the nerd’s and gets jealous because the nerd is so sheltered and his parents take care of him and the family has no problems. While the rebels life sucks because him and his dad get into physical fights and his dad has given him a cigar burn on his arm. Then there is the basket case who doesn’t really create problems between any one. She mentions her points and does pick at the prom queen a little but generally she’s quiet. The funny thing about her is that she just went to detention because she was bored.
During all this fighting they have times where they begin to talk. They each start to talk about their life and describe a little of their home life. They talk about why they are the way they are. The jock talks about how he feels and how his dad controls his life. His dad says how he must “win win.” Then the nerd tells how he got in to detention. In shop class he had to build an elephant lamp and when you pull the trunk the light is supposed to go on, but in his case it didn’t. So he failed, and he can’t have an F, so he brought a flare gun to school, and got caught.
After talking for a while and being all emotional, the nerd asked the prom queen if they were going to be friends on Monday, since they were friends and talking now. She replies with her self conceited self; no, no they couldn’t be friends because of her other friends. That starts another fight.
If you want to know more you’re going to have to go see the movie yourself. I feel this is a great movie to see. It brings up many great issues that happen in everyday life at Minnetonka, and every other school. So if you haven’t seen it, you should do so.