7/18/2013

Dead Poets Society (1989)


O Captain! My Captain!




To a background of bagpipes, meet the boys of the Welton Academy. A prep school that prepares an all-boys elite to get in the Ivy League thanks to four core values: tradition, honor, discipline, excellence. Mr. Keating, the new offbeat English teacher, will change the lives of those boys by introducing them to poetry and freethinking. A teacher extraordinaire who changes lives is a theme that has been explored more than we can remember but to this day, Dead Poets Society is still the best movie about it. Robin Williams is a teacher everyone wished they had. Unfortunately for most of us, it's as rare to have a teacher like this as it is to write good poetry. But in Hollywood, everything is possible and brighter. I sure wish I had a teacher pushing me to pursue a career in the arts. Seize the day, find your inner voice, don't let your parents decide on your future... Those are some of the many valuable life lessons that DPS promotes. It's always a pleasure for me to watch DPS once in a while to witness Ethan Hawke's career start. Robin Williams is a master at humor as everyone knows but when it comes to drama, he is deeply moving too. Williams makes hilarious impersonations, as usual. Two-thirds of the movie is quite funny, then an efficient and dramatic twist makes you cry like you have PMS. Dead Poets Society is an emotional elevator taking you to both ends of the feeling scale.

1 reason to watch: DPS is a bucket full of lessons for kids and parents




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