I've always wondered if people in real life actually belong to a college clique that stays in touch and reunites for a weekend 10 years later. Are these college cliques a real thing or a movie fantasy? I've never heard of this happening in real life, but I see it all the time in movies: The Big Chill, The Return of the Secaucus 7, About Alex, etc.
shareI've never actually thought of how common this is, but I and my friends from college are still pretty close, and it's been seven years since graduation. Some of them I see every week (same city), and some I see once a year (different continents), but we still keep in touch through Skype, e-mail or Facebook. So yes, it does happen.
shareI graduated college in 1995, and all my best college friends male and female ( 5 core friends + 5 spouses + random periphrials ) pick a weekend every year to get together. EVERY single year. I talk to them more often than my siblings. This scenario does not falter at all.
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"In Hollywood you fail upward" or something like that.
And yes, there was a bit of unrequited/ requited left over feelings from dorm room hook-ups, my friends ended up where and who they were meant to be with. I would be so lost without those friends as the true anchor in my life...
I think that is the theme of the movie. Everyone ended up where they thought they should be except for "Alex." He was left alone, his best friends have moved on.
Alex's best friends all ignored him and his literal "cries for help." He didn't realize that all his friends were struggling too, because they chose to ignore his pain to focus on their own. No blame on any scenario.
GreenScreenFX
"In Hollywood you fail upward" or something like that.
Maybe most of mine were not very good friends. I moved and people sort of disapated. A couple I would want to see and others I tried to keep in touch with but they sort of lost interest. Out of sight is out of mind for a lot of people.
shareI've been wondering the same thing, you often see this cliques in movies but I think it really rare in real life. I personally completely lost all contact with my School buddies.
Libera te tu temet ex inferis.
pro ego sum diabolus, pro ego sum nex.
i never made any friends in college... wish it could have been like this.
shareI have a few groups of friends from college, though mine are all female. One group of friends had a girls weekend in Vermont around the time the first of us started to turn 30. We weren't a group from the first year, though (some of us knew each other early and others didn't). My friends shifted throughout college, and some I'm closer to now than when I was in college. Most of us graduated around the same time, so our reunions are at the same time, though a couple of the girls graduated the following year. We all went to our 5 year reunion and will likely all be going to the 10 year reunion next year. Plus, one of the girls is getting married, so when one of us gets married, we see each other. Just like any group of friends, some of us are closer to certain people in the group than others, so some smaller groups sometimes form. I've stopped being in regular touch with some people from college, but part of that is just that some people don't make much of an effort, and I'm only going to make the effort if the other person will too.
shareI lost all contact with people I knew in business school, but I still keep in touch with most of my friends from high school, oddly enough. Thank goodness for Facebook lol or I'd not have been in contact with any of them, but most of us have gotten together for a visit since then.
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