I'll have to think long and hard after movies that I’ve seen over the years that have made any special impact on my life, I’m talking about some movies that make me feel good just by thinking about them. The only recent experience that I can refer to was one that I had this February. It was late, really late, there was dead calm at home and pitch black outside.

I was looking for a movie to put me to sleep, after looking under my bed (yeap, I tend to stash movies under the bed when I’m watching them in my bedroom) and I found two contestants for the midnight show. One was "Training day", a movie that I had seen a couple of days earlier, the other one was "Lost in translation", I had borrowed this from a friend. Honestly speaking, I didn't know a lot about this movie, I had only heard that it was worth watching, but I was skeptical to the cast. Bill Murray in a drama? and who was Scarlett Johansson?

I was astonished, from the word "go" I was glued to the screen, there was almost something mystical about it, it came alive and threw me into the story. I could almost feel Tokyo around me. It’s safe to say that "Lost in translation" moved me in many ways, I loved the filming, the acting, the lack of a musical score, everything. I ended up buying the film and watching it again the following weekend, its become one of my all time favorites. I've watched it a endless amount of times, mostly around midnight, it always makes the same impact.

I've recommended the movie to all of my friends and they all seem to react the same way as me, when someone wants to borrow the DVD from me I even tend to set some conditions. I actually set the same conditions to all dramas.

• Watch the movie around midnight since there's usually less disturbance in the form of people at home, traffic noise from outside, and most importantly daylight.
• Watch it alone. This is because one tends to start talking about the movie while its still playing and/or the other viewer can have a certain disrespect of dramas.
• Don't eat any snacks, have only some beverage at your side. There shouldn't be any noise from chips or any other snack that can cause disturbance.
• If possible, don't read about the plot beforehand. Try keeping away from the back of the DVD.
• Watch the whole movie without break, a simple visit to the bathroom can put you in a different state of mind.

As long as you follow these simple rules (ok, semi-simple), you're bound to have a great movie experience.

By going into the way-back-machine, I recall a little movie by the name of "The Breakfast Club", the name seems to pop up more often than others. I might be walking in dangerous territory by claiming that this movie is just as good as (or even better) than "Lost in translation". Now many people will say that one is better than the other and that the two bare no resembles to one another, meaning that the comparison is false from the beginning. I'm purely talking about the quality of the two, they're both great movies.

What is "The breakfast club"? Well that’s a long story, but let’s look at the facts first. It was made back in 1985 and starred some young actors that had started to make a name of themselves. Emilio Estevez ("Maximum overdrive", "Young guns") and Judd Nelson ("From the Hip", "Suddenly Susan") were the ones that lifted most of the weight in this movie. They had worked together earlier in "St.Elmo's Fire" where they showed off some of their acting skills, they used the same talent in this flick.

Its outstanding how such a simple plot can cause a havoc of good reviews, "The breakfast club" is simply about a small group of high school students that have, because of minor misdemeanors in school, been "sentenced" to detention on a Saturday. Yes, the whole movie takes place inside a school and mainly inside a larger library where they're supposed to be sitting out their 9 hour detention.

Luckily we find out that the group has nothing in common, they're from totally different social circles. Outside this single session of detention, they would probably never even talk to each other. We find the following personalities;

• The rebel and metal head John Bender (Nelson)
• The sports jock and wrestler Andrew Clark (Estevez)
• The geek Brian Johnson (Anthony Michael Hall)
• The popular girl Claire Standish (Molly Ringwald)
• The weird outcast Allison Reynolds (Ally Sheedy, who also starred in "St.Elmo's Fire")

They're all supervised by the powerhogging Principal Richard Vernon, played brilliantly by Paul Gleason ("Die hard", "Van Wilder"). The principal isn't exactly the motivational role model compared to the saints from "Boston Public", he has a sort of a "let them blead-philosofy" and uses all his tricks in keeping the students in their right/wrong state of mind.

The whole movie is built up with clever dialogue and interpersonal questions. The different students start to talk to each other and find out that they're not so different as they would have thought. We get to hear about all their personal problems, Bender who has problems with his dad, Brian who has a constant pressure to do well. Special bonds are created that might be fragile after this Saturday, but at the time they stand united when it comes to their conception against their parents, teachers and the principal.

They all lower their guards for the period of nine hours, the stories that are told are tear dropping, interesting, and also hilarious. A good example on the tear dropping is Benders description of his dad who doesn't seem to care enough about his son. And a great example of a hilarious, yet dramatic story, is when Andrew tells about the time he taped a fellow students butt cheeks together.

Its hard to explain more about the plot of the movie without shelling some of the interesting parts of the movie, I can only recommend all viewers that haven't had the pleasure of watching this movie to get a hold of it as soon as possible. And hopefully follow the rules I mentioned above.

I once read a great example about social situations where people from different social groups are forced to bond. The example was from a elevator, on a normal day several people go in and out of the elevator without exchanging a single word. But if the elevator suddenly stops due to technical problems, well suddenly the group is mentally forced to start talking to each other. I think this would be a fantastic comparison to "The breakfast club".