Get up, children, let's start an uprising!

Matt 2022-03-14 14:12:20

I have to admit that my courage has become smaller than before, "Death Poetry Society", such a name has scared me, worried that it will look very hard. Actually not, it is completely different from the guess. Saw it three times, not perfect, but not bad. Now I can honestly see from the beginning to the end, and there are not many movies I have watched three times.
Like the cover of the DVD, the children in red, lift up their captain, MR.Keating in the white shirt, a feeling of excitement and uprising. Seventeen! It's seventeen years old again, and another group of seventeen-year-old kids! The uprising, to fight against the world of non-poetry, of course, is just a fight, and I will eventually return to this world, and become bankers, lawyers, and doctors in the future, but we would rather believe that their lives will be different in the future.
We have had such surging passion before. The film puts it in a powerful environment of confrontation and conflict. On the one hand, it is the new teacher Keating, who leads the children to the language and life of poetry, and guides them to demand different lives and meanings. On the other hand, it is the parents and the principal. The panic and violent suppression. And Neil's death finally pushed this conflict to the forefront. The narration is very tense, and the lens is very refreshing. I really like all the scenes where birds and snow appear. And the profile faces of the children, clean and innocent. And their running and chasing. There are also a few small actions of Keating.

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Extended Reading

Dead Poets Society quotes

  • John Keating: Language was developed for one endeavor, and that is... Mr. Anderson? Come on, are you a man or an amoeba?

    [Todd stays silent]

    John Keating: Mr. Perry?

    Neil Perry: To communicate.

    John Keating: No! To woo women!

  • Neil Perry: [quoting Henry David Thoreau] "I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."

    Charlie Dalton: I'll second that.

    Neil Perry: "To put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."