While many societies have had all-but-codified rigid social hierarchies where someone from high social strata would not consider having anything but the most shoal of interactions with people of other "tribes" or "social levels," (Victorian society was especially infamous for this) let us not forget that most humans today have varying bits here and there of pre-modern human ancestry.
Therefore, it's a story as old as humanity itself - two people from opposite sides of the tracks are romantically interested in each other. That's not really what this movie is about, though.
Indeed, Molly Ringwald does here play a fairly poor girl being raised by her chronically unemployed single father. She's poor and a bit quirky (makes her own clothes and has some friends from gaudy subcultures).
A rich guy takes an interest in her and she reciprocates it, but his rich friends don't approve of her. This becomes a problem for him and he finds it so hard to deal with the social pressure that he falters and disappoints her.
Yet there is no extreme difference in their situations. They go to the same school, live in the same city, and have no big problems partaking in the same social events after all. Her friend, "Duckie" is the real poor boy here, who, because of his strange personality is excluded from many activities and barely seen as worthy of note by the other characters.
On the other hand, she has a strange and very close friendship with an eccentric boy (Duckie) who is openly obsessed with her. She doesn't seem to mind, though, and keeps him as a sort of annoying pet.
Oddly, despite the title, this is a story about men. Our main protagonist doesn't change or grow throughout the film but the males around her either change as a result of their interactions with her or are able to showcase their personalities by being near her.
Her dad is a nice guy who's having a hard time being a good single father. James Spader plays the usual sleazy rich character he's been typecast for with all the corresponding bad traits on ostentatious display. Duckie learns to let go and put up more of a fight against the society that's stacked against him; in a similar fashion, Blane learns what it means to hold fast to your values even under pressure.
To be sure, Molly comes to dislike the world of pomp and wealth she initially admires, but it's not strongly developed either way.
Good acting from the main characters, but the story is predictable and most characters are just stereotypes. If you like 80s fashion and culture it's a classic of the era.
Honourable Mentions: Breakfast Club (1985). Bowlong for Soup mentions Pink and Breakfast Club as the two movies that defined 80s popular cinema in their homage to the decade "1985."
Therefore, it's a story as old as humanity itself - two people from opposite sides of the tracks are romantically interested in each other. That's not really what this movie is about, though.
Indeed, Molly Ringwald does here play a fairly poor girl being raised by her chronically unemployed single father. She's poor and a bit quirky (makes her own clothes and has some friends from gaudy subcultures).
A rich guy takes an interest in her and she reciprocates it, but his rich friends don't approve of her. This becomes a problem for him and he finds it so hard to deal with the social pressure that he falters and disappoints her.
Yet there is no extreme difference in their situations. They go to the same school, live in the same city, and have no big problems partaking in the same social events after all. Her friend, "Duckie" is the real poor boy here, who, because of his strange personality is excluded from many activities and barely seen as worthy of note by the other characters.
On the other hand, she has a strange and very close friendship with an eccentric boy (Duckie) who is openly obsessed with her. She doesn't seem to mind, though, and keeps him as a sort of annoying pet.
Oddly, despite the title, this is a story about men. Our main protagonist doesn't change or grow throughout the film but the males around her either change as a result of their interactions with her or are able to showcase their personalities by being near her.
Her dad is a nice guy who's having a hard time being a good single father. James Spader plays the usual sleazy rich character he's been typecast for with all the corresponding bad traits on ostentatious display. Duckie learns to let go and put up more of a fight against the society that's stacked against him; in a similar fashion, Blane learns what it means to hold fast to your values even under pressure.
To be sure, Molly comes to dislike the world of pomp and wealth she initially admires, but it's not strongly developed either way.
Good acting from the main characters, but the story is predictable and most characters are just stereotypes. If you like 80s fashion and culture it's a classic of the era.
Honourable Mentions: Breakfast Club (1985). Bowlong for Soup mentions Pink and Breakfast Club as the two movies that defined 80s popular cinema in their homage to the decade "1985."