Dead Poet's Society (1989)
All of us had that favourite teacher in school who could motivate and connect with you. He would have been that sympathetic ear that could understand all the teenage angst that you went through. He probably would have also changed the direction of your future as you had struggle through the aimless journey in those trying years.
This coming-of-age film is one which depicts such a teacher.
In spite of all turbulences that Robin Williams had to go through as he manoeuvred through the crypts of life, he managed to inspire many a teenager to indulge in poetry and literature when he took the role of an English teacher, Mr John Keating, in this movie. Many still remember the verses 'Carpe diem' and 'O' Captain, my Captain'.
Just like 'The Paper Chase' with Prof. Charles Kingsfield and his sarcastic remarks to his Year One Law Students, the dialogues exchanged between Mr Keating and his students is simply poetically entertaining.
In essence, Dead Poet's Society is a story about a group of first year of a preparatory school students, their teacher who motivates them into liking poetry and literature, a student who defied his father's wishes for him to become a doctor but become an actor, his heartbreak, his suicide and the final expulsion of Mr. Keating for inciting chaos to age old traditional practices of the school.
The film is filled with many heart wrenching poetic lines that are worth sharing.
All of us had that favourite teacher in school who could motivate and connect with you. He would have been that sympathetic ear that could understand all the teenage angst that you went through. He probably would have also changed the direction of your future as you had struggle through the aimless journey in those trying years.
This coming-of-age film is one which depicts such a teacher.
In spite of all turbulences that Robin Williams had to go through as he manoeuvred through the crypts of life, he managed to inspire many a teenager to indulge in poetry and literature when he took the role of an English teacher, Mr John Keating, in this movie. Many still remember the verses 'Carpe diem' and 'O' Captain, my Captain'.
Just like 'The Paper Chase' with Prof. Charles Kingsfield and his sarcastic remarks to his Year One Law Students, the dialogues exchanged between Mr Keating and his students is simply poetically entertaining.
In essence, Dead Poet's Society is a story about a group of first year of a preparatory school students, their teacher who motivates them into liking poetry and literature, a student who defied his father's wishes for him to become a doctor but become an actor, his heartbreak, his suicide and the final expulsion of Mr. Keating for inciting chaos to age old traditional practices of the school.
The film is filled with many heart wrenching poetic lines that are worth sharing.
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