A comedy drama film Dead Poets Society (1989) that was written by Tom Schulman and directed by Peter Weir shows also that teaching is not a profession it is a vocation. It showed how a teacher affects a student. Starring Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonar, Ethan Hawke, Gale Hansen, Josh Charles, Dylan Kussman, Allelon Rnuggiero, James Waterston. It was set in Vermont in 1959 and has a total running time of 128 minutes.
In 1959, shy Todd Anderson begins his senior year of high school at elite boarding school Welton Academy, a prep school in the Northeastern United States. One of the most promising students at Welton, Neil Perry, is assigned as Todd’s roommate and Todd is quickly initiated into Perry’s circle of friends, including mischievous Charlie Dalton, romantic Knox Overstreet, high-flying overachiever Richard Cameron and best friends Gerard Pitts and Steven Meeks. On the first day of classes they are surprised to find that their new English teacher, Mr. Keating, is both entertaining and unorthodox, himself a Welton alumnus whose innovation in the classroom brings English class alive. He encourages his students to make their lives extraordinary and summarizes this sentiment with extorting them in Latin “carpe diem” (seize the day). Unfortunately this is in direct contrast to the ethos of the school where living a traditional and conformist life is preferred to living an extraordinary one.
John Keating, is the newest English teacher at Welton and he teaches the boys to think with their hearts instead of their heads. Thus inspired, they reactivate the Dead Poet’s Society and, in violation of the school rules, sneak out at night to read poetry in an abandoned cave.Together the boys join in what seems an almost hopeless search for self-realisation and suddenly the viewer is captivated as they find their release in rebellion against authority. The second half of the film deals with the consequences of these actions and the various ways in which the boys are able to deal with them. Some are amusing, some are predictable, some are tragic, and many are hopeful
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Dead Poets Society teaches us to live our lives full to its extent and full of conviction, mindful of the fact that in the story of our lives the script is ours to write, but the ending has long been decided.
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