"It's hard to ignore a film's message when the main character is addressing you directly down the barrel of the camera. Granted, the first time I watched the 1986 teen comedy Ferris Bueller's Day Off, I was the impressionable age of 11 and Look people in the eyes when they're talking to you was on constant rotation in my household. So my green eyes met Ferris's brown ones and I took it all in."
"Centred around Matthew Broderick's playful turn as Ferris Bueller, a high school senior faking illness to skip school, Ferris Bueller's Day Off is certainly a celebration of the carefree, though the story is by no means languid. Made frantic by doing the thing you're not supposed to do with the aid of a red Ferrari, the day speeds by in comparison to the fictional days of other American teen films, such as American Graffiti and Dazed & Confused."
The film centers on Matthew Broderick's Ferris Bueller, a high-school senior who fakes illness to skip school and stage a fast, eventful day in Chicago. Ferris's charm and manipulative wit recruit his anxious friend Cameron Frye and girlfriend Sloane Peterson into urban adventures powered by a red Ferrari. Antagonists—an overzealous sister and a vindictive dean—embody adult conformity and social expectation. John Hughes frames teenage perception as clear-eyed and deserving of attention, using brisk pacing, location shifts, jokes, monologues and blunt remarks about growing up to criticize adults who mask capitalist values with a facade of maturity.
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