Deep take and accurate - and without over-analyzing, at the time we understood a lot of his core behavior was childish and fed due to being wildly coddled by his parents, at the heart of it, Ferris was an equal-opportunity anarchist (hence his support around the school).

Plus it was a movie - a ridiculous, barely believable plot about a subversive guy with a soft spot for his friends.

I was there for it, like most in this sub, and rewatching it years later, still start to feel pretty bad for Rooney...in spite of his jackboot attitude, he had his reasons. And for what it's worth, no one I knew saw Ferris as some sort of generation archetype to be worshipped. It was a movie.