“The Dead Poet Society” is a movie directed by Peter Weir and released in 1989. It follows the lives of a group of boys attending an extremely prestigious boarding school called Welton Academy,, and how they interact with their teachers (especially John Keating, called Captain by his students), each other, authority, and themselves. The film has received critical acclaim for the acting and message, as well as symbolism and political commentary. I enjoyed SOME the movie, and hey, that’s a victory, I don’t normally enjoy movies like this. However, I, of course, have a lot of criticism. We received 3 prompts in order to produce a 3 - 5 page paper, which were as follows:
Life Lessons
Self-discovery
Cause-and-effect I’m going to talk about all of these, starting with life lessons, since they have an overarching theme with all of the prompts.
When Keating shows up at school, it’s an almost immediate outrage. His teaching methods are unorthodox, to say the least - like teaching kids to rip up teaching they do not …show more content…
Almost all of the self discovery in this movie ended pretty poorly. Possible the biggest and most in-your-face example, which also ties into cause-and-effect (a coveted title for sure, as all of the symbolism and metaphors in this movie were extremely obvious and spelled out) was that of Neil Perry, one of Keating’s near-victims. Neil is all about that acting. He ends up taking a part in production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (recommended by Keating) and sticks with it, even when his LAME father tell him to cut the crap (recommended by Keating) and even ends up attempting to talk his father down so that he can pursue the arts (recommended by Keating). His father is so APPALLED by this that he immediately decides to send his child to military school the following day (unrealistic). Distraught by not being able to confront his father, being enrolled in a different school, and not being able to be true to himself, Neil ends his own
Life Lessons
Self-discovery
Cause-and-effect I’m going to talk about all of these, starting with life lessons, since they have an overarching theme with all of the prompts.
When Keating shows up at school, it’s an almost immediate outrage. His teaching methods are unorthodox, to say the least - like teaching kids to rip up teaching they do not …show more content…
Almost all of the self discovery in this movie ended pretty poorly. Possible the biggest and most in-your-face example, which also ties into cause-and-effect (a coveted title for sure, as all of the symbolism and metaphors in this movie were extremely obvious and spelled out) was that of Neil Perry, one of Keating’s near-victims. Neil is all about that acting. He ends up taking a part in production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (recommended by Keating) and sticks with it, even when his LAME father tell him to cut the crap (recommended by Keating) and even ends up attempting to talk his father down so that he can pursue the arts (recommended by Keating). His father is so APPALLED by this that he immediately decides to send his child to military school the following day (unrealistic). Distraught by not being able to confront his father, being enrolled in a different school, and not being able to be true to himself, Neil ends his own