Comments on: Flashback!: My Tears Look Pretty in Pink

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By: Mark Blankenship

Mark Blankenship — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:41:24 +0000

All thoughtful points, Katy. Especially about Duckie’s being coded as gay.

But whereas last week I would’ve agreed with you right away that The Breakfast Club was the superior of the Ringwald Ring (if you will), I’m now siding with PiP. (Though The Breakfast is only in second by a hair.)

And what can I say? Molly’s my girl now. I really think she rocked her performance.

By: Katy

Katy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:13:03 +0000

Pretty in Pink is complicated. I never connected with it as a young lass because I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHY SHE DIDN’T END UP WITH DUCKIE.

I mean, seriously. Duckie, who tried so hard to win her. Duckie, with whom she obviously had more in common. Duckie, who was more deserving than vapid Blaine. This, I believed, was a film about the inherent injustice of romantic love.

Of course, now when I watch Pretty in Pink, I’m mostly thinking about what a coded gay character Duckie is. (Wouldn’t this have been an even better film if Duckie had come out at the end? If he’d made out with a popular boy at the prom?)

Okay, heresy coming … watching it these days, I’m also struck by what a terrible actress Molly Ringwald is. I’m sorry, Mark. She’s completely wooden. Granted, she’s better in Pretty in Pink than in Sixteen Candles. But Breakfast Club is obviously the finest of that trio.

(I know. I didn’t call you back. I haven’t forgotten. I will.)