The first film that clearly does this is The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It starts off as the main character Charley. He a freshman in a Pittsburgh high school where the students view him below them. Throughout the beginning of the film, Charley was made fun of by other students where that was making him uncomfortable. Throughout the film, he was narrator as if he was reading the letters that he writes to his friend who passed away the previous year. However, him being one of the wallflowers was the thing that made him change and learn how to let himself go from being so afraid.One thing that was interesting was the way he adjusted by making friends. He did not need any help to make friends. He just went up to one of the seniors named Patrick and started interacting with him. The good thing was that Patrick was inviting and allowed him to have conversations with him and even got him involved with many of his other friends who which Charley got along with. In the beginning of the film you would think that Charley was the typical "loser" type of student who was a nerd since in the movie he constantly goes to his English teacher and asks him for more books to read.
The second film that does this was Rebel Without a Cause. This film was interesting as it does involve the protagonist being in a group. However, this group of friends rival another group of friends. In a way compared to the other two films, this one uses a strange method of the involvement of groups. The one that was causing all the trouble seemed to have an organized group of friends who defend each other and help fight for each other. For example, in the middle of the film, there was a group of people who were making fun of the protagonist or the person we are supposed to like by messing with his car and beginning to create conflict. One thing to note was the use of knives as this implies the time period that this movie took place. Nowadays, you don't see many people using knives in everyday conflict. Finally, the rebellion which is mentioned in the title seems to be with the parents. In the film many of the characters seem to have parent problems. For example, the protagonist killed a man but even his father was trying to get him to runaway. However, the son wanted to take responsibility for his actions which was surprising coming from a son. The father would be the one to say that not the son. The son would be the one that wants to runaway from the whole problem
The final film was The Breakfast Club. This was a very interesting film by the way it paired a group of students together. The film consist of one Saturday with a group students who have to stay for detention which in the beginning of the film it isn't clear what each of them did. One interesting thing is how they all fit into a teenage stereotype. There is the nerd, cool football guy, pretty girl, weird girl, and then there is the criminal-like student. At the beginning they seem to hate each other and can't get over their differences especially between the pretty girl and the criminal which they are constantly fighting throughout the entire film. However, as the film progressed they started to find their similarities with each other. The film went into how each one of them got there and what they did. This was one of the things that made them become supposedly "friends" even some in boyfriend/girlfriend relationships which you would not expect. Anyway, one question however against this entire post with this one movie is that "Are they going to stay friends or are they going to forget each other after that Saturday?" This question was brought up a lot throughout the ending of the film and definitely was something to consider.
