What so many people lose sight of in this film, and it is a film more than a movie, is the fact that John Hughes stayed focused on the disillusionment of growing up which resonated with audiences.
Ferris was the teen anti hero archetype. Confident, uncertain about the future, rebellious of authority of course, but also realizing what it means to be an adult and that is to think about other's needs besides your own.
This also reflected on not only the anxiety of growing up but downright the burst of change from high school to college and losing friends over it.
Ferris acts out his anxieties and we see it and the parade sequence was the final dispensation of just saying, I'll figure out eventually. Of course it never happens that way, but we like to think it does an that's what films are for to an extent.
His friend was a reminder of what it means to worry and feel afraid of authority and to care too much about what people think. Objects are meaningless if you don't have experiences to get outside your comfort zone and dance to a hit song or in fact ditch school.
It was the decade which defied the parents creed of you have to do it, you have to go to work, and Ferris exemplified this in words and deeds. The subjective shots worked because it asked you wo words if you felt the same as Ferris.
The film was about many things and you can describe it in many ways but it was simply an expression of freedom, especially when you're supposed to be heading towards the lion's den of growing up and higher education.
Most of Hughes films demonstrate adults as incompetent malcontents who thrive on providing their authority on youth. This is partly why he was successful in this decade of actually believing you could be free from the constraints ones parents had to endure at that age.
Ferris was the teen anti hero archetype. Confident, uncertain about the future, rebellious of authority of course, but also realizing what it means to be an adult and that is to think about other's needs besides your own.
This also reflected on not only the anxiety of growing up but downright the burst of change from high school to college and losing friends over it.
Ferris acts out his anxieties and we see it and the parade sequence was the final dispensation of just saying, I'll figure out eventually. Of course it never happens that way, but we like to think it does an that's what films are for to an extent.
His friend was a reminder of what it means to worry and feel afraid of authority and to care too much about what people think. Objects are meaningless if you don't have experiences to get outside your comfort zone and dance to a hit song or in fact ditch school.
It was the decade which defied the parents creed of you have to do it, you have to go to work, and Ferris exemplified this in words and deeds. The subjective shots worked because it asked you wo words if you felt the same as Ferris.
The film was about many things and you can describe it in many ways but it was simply an expression of freedom, especially when you're supposed to be heading towards the lion's den of growing up and higher education.
Most of Hughes films demonstrate adults as incompetent malcontents who thrive on providing their authority on youth. This is partly why he was successful in this decade of actually believing you could be free from the constraints ones parents had to endure at that age.