Dead Poets Society Movie Review

5 days ago

Originally a film is divided into two genres, Comedy and Tragedy.
A comedy is a light hearted movie that brings you to laugh and leaves you with joy, while a tragedy is the opposite, brings you to tears and leaves your heart heavy.
There are also actors who excel in each genre, for the comedy we have greats like Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams. Then there are actors who excel in tragedies too like Leonardo Di Carpio, Janes Dean and Robin Williams...
If one were to ask me to categorize this movie I'm about to review, I wouldn't be able to appropriately place it, for as the biggest actor in the movie isn't bound by silly categories, so is this movie a mixture of them both✨

Dead Poets Society

Weltom Academy is an elite boarding school for boys that have graduated years and years of Yale, Harvard and Oxford scholars because of their Orthodox age old rules and teaching methods.Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Knox Overstreet, Gerrars Pitts and Richard Cameron are different though.
Thanks to the help of their new poetry teacher, John Keating, these boys are able to break the status quo and explore their passions through the most passionate type of literature of all; poetry.

𝑾𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕'𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒕𝒆. 𝑾𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏.

To be honest, I entered this movie with an open mind, almost like I do all my movies gotten from Instagram.
When the decision to watch a movie is made from a single clip, and no further investigation of it was made, you can't be strongly biased about it.
Hence I went in like a blank page, and no how, in no way could I guess the themes I would come across in this movie, or how strong these themes would make themselves shown.

- Passion.

This is one theme of the movie. Some might say it's the major theme of the film.
John Keaton brought this to his bored and dark eyed classroom of boys.
Lads that have been used to thick books, dead sounding teachers and the smell of chalk.
This passion changed their way of learning, changed their mindset and changed themselves.

We see the passion light up as they went for the poetry meetings. We see it as they're tearing out pages of books and scribbling down their own poems, on the acting and pursuing of arts that they love and we see it as they love.
We see the passion in the boys and the boys see the passion everywhere

- Growth

With this passion comes growth. We see the boys change in order to accumulate and use this passion.
The timeline for the movie is just a semester so there's not much physical growth, but mentally the boys have moved up rapidly.
They now think more, not with their minds but with their hearts. They now feel and have more empathy and appreciation for the littlest of things.

- Neglect.

This was the most shocking of themes, and it's what made the show a tragedy.
The growth has started for the children, yet how willing is the childs environment to accept that growth?
How open are the parents or the child's circumstances to that sudden burst of passion?
If there is no love for the passion, what would the child do?

This theme is what made it a tragedy, one can't blame the child nor the parents, yet people would always throw blame, and the blame would end somewhere.
The child, parents, school, students, teacher. For the source of passion, it's denomination is determining by what the passion creates in the end time.
Is it good or bad, such a tag is determined by its result.
Alas passion is just passion, and poetry is just poetry, but this movie is gold, a straight 10 out of 10

I'm not a poetry fan, but I just might join the Dead Poets Society.