Guest blogger: Karyn 1

Ferris Beuller’s Day Off is a classic. It is also a character driven story of a high school senior taking some me time during the school day. Ferris Bueller is a master at faking sickness with a whole keyboard of sound effects to prove it, so when he decides he doesn’t feel like going to school his parents believe he is truly sick and allow him to stay home. Once everyone leaves he calls up his buddy Cameron and together they get Sloane, ferris’s girlfriend, out of school as well by pretending her grandmother died. The three of them set off in Cameron’s father’s Ferrari to explode what Chicago has to offer. They go to a game at Wrigley Field, see the Sears Tower, go deep in thought at the Art Institute of Chicago and at one point Ferris sing Danke Schoen in the Von Steuben Day parade. In the end they find out that the garage attendants that they left the Ferrari with, took the car for a joyride and put on several hundred miles. Knowing that his dad will be very angry, Cameron goes into a catatonic state. All the while, their principal Ed Rooney, and Ferris’s sister are chasing after them trying to prove that they are playing hooky. Matthew Broderick who plays Ferris is absolutely outstanding in portraying the slacker. Ferris Bueller has a way with things always working out. He doesn’t think about the consequences just about how to get what he wants. He is very clever and optimistic unlike his best friend Cameron who struggles to find a reason to get up in the morning. Cameron comes from a very wealthy family who focus on material things as success. While the audience might take away the theme of dropping everything and ditching, they also should take away the theme of enjoying life to the fullest and putting excitement in your life. Most critics and I agree that this is one movie with a timeless tale of teen rebellion with classic humor to go along with it. In my opinion, it’s defiantly worth our money.