Only after watching this movie did I realize that I had been dead for a long time, starting from the morning when I was accidentally broken.
In a sense, this movie tells a story that is too pure. I say it too much because it has not been commercialized in a very sentimental way, which is why it has become a box office poison. A group of young boys, a teacher with a unique understanding of life, and a rigid and strict prestigious middle school in which they live.
The film mainly tells the story of a group of students who learned how to choose their own lives under the guidance of Teacher Keating and resisted the teaching system that repressed and restrained them. However, it also ended with the suicide of a student and the murder of Teacher Keating. Remarks are the end. The plot arrangement is smooth and smooth, without any fancy, but when the comedy-style first half reaches the melancholy ending, it makes people feel a bit gloomy, but it is this feeling of being frustrated by reality, and the depression in the last scene The climax of the film sublimates the moral of the film. When you look back and savor it carefully, the rich connotations of the film can even make people confused. Who is the protagonist of the film, Teacher Keating? student? Or is it the system that imprisons people’s souls like an iron house, or the real world?
In Kedding’s world, what we see is the story of how an educator became an exile under the system and dogma. If there are two completely different worlds in this film, one is the real world that symbolizes restraint and repression, and the other is the world that embodies the dream of freedom and passion, then Keating is the connection between these two worlds. point. He is a teacher in the real world, a person with many auras in the real world, but he is also a helmsman (captain?) who guides students to discover and cherish their inner dreams, and a friend who helps students face themselves and life calmly. He taught them to see the world from a different perspective, to be a different version of themselves, to challenge those dogmas that others regard as golden rules, and to take the path they truly want to take. Whether it's asking students to tear apart authoritative evaluations of poetry and read it with their own hearts, or letting them see how they change their own pace following the footsteps of others, Keating used his charisma to infect this group of people in prison. The young people who have been suppressed for too long have regained their courage to fly and their passion for flying. However, Keating's own ending was that he was driven away by the school in the name of "poisoning" the students' thoughts. It seemed that in the distant time and space, the tragic fate of those challengers and betrayers helplessly echoed. The fire thief gives people light, but he can only walk away silently carrying the bad reputation of a thief.
In Neil's world, what is shown is how a person can step out of the shadow of other people's lives, see the brilliance of the sun shining on himself, and take the path he wants to take. Neil's passion for searching for the meaning of life was ignited in Teacher Keating's class, he reorganized the Dead Poets Society, and participated in the performance of his dream play without telling his parents. His flying life was reflected in the elf in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" The body is radiant. However, when the curtain fell, he had to return to reality and face his father's stern and cold gaze. Between his parents and his dreams, Neil had no way to escape. Finally, on a snowy cold night, he put on the elf's crown of thorns for the last time, walked through the cold water of the night, and ended his short life with a freedom. And the gesture of vivid life expressed his last silent anger. In him we can see not only the romance and excitement of a dreamer, but also the helplessness and moaning of a bound person who is burdened with the pressure of real life.
There is another character in the film that cannot be ignored, and that is Todd. Timid, cowardly, diligent in studying, silent and rarely spoken, when looking at him, I always feel that some part of me is screaming with him. There is still passion hidden under his incompetent and ordinary appearance, but his passion always flows silently, and it is not until the end of the film that there is an uncontrollable explosion. When Teacher Keating left, he was helpless and even helplessly acted as the accuser. The moment Keating left the classroom, he stood on the desk and shouted: "Captain, my captain!" This is what Keating taught way, a way of seeing the world from a different perspective. Now, this method has become a weapon that openly mocks the sad constraints of the real world. Although it is not very lethal to this world that has been numb for too long, the director still allows us to see that under the leadership of Todd, almost all the students in the class Everyone stood up one after another. The scene was a bit sensational and not very real, but it did give each of us hope to move on. Keating is gone, but no one will doubt that the imprint of youthful publicity will forever remain in the hearts of these people who have just embarked on their own path in life.
The whole movie is full of tension, poetry and passion. There are two scenes with images that are unforgettable to me. One is an aerial shot showing a flock of birds flying in the dark fields of autumn. I have never seen so many birds flying in an instant. Their momentum across the sky is like a force struggling to rise, eager to soar regardless of the cost or consequences. The sound of their flapping wings stirred up the vast tranquility of the autumn field. Even if it was short-lived, it also made their voices heard in the world.
There are also those figures yearning for freedom and lonely souls walking through the mist in the dark night, warming themselves to poetry and trembling in the passion of poetry. I can't see their appearance clearly, but I just feel that inadvertently, my heart is following them to a certain cave, where I can vent all my anger and look for the power of life in the excited eyes.
A film about poetry, of course, is full of poetic and witty aphorisms, such as "Only in dreams can people be truly free. This has always been the case and will always be so." " Two roads diverge in the forest, and I choose the one less traveled by."
"If we can't change the world, then we should at least change our lives and live freely." In those distant days, Milan Kundera said so. And here, written on Todd's young cheek, engraved on Neil's redbud crown, and revealed in Kedding's sad smile, is this verse:
I walked into the jungle,
Because I want life to be meaningful
I want to live profoundly
Absorb all the essence of life
Put away everything that is not life Defeat them all
Lest when my life ends
I find that I have never lived.
The same words of encouragement.
The film is called Dead Poets Society, perhaps borrowing the meaning of living toward death. Only by letting the part of your mind and soul that does not belong to you die can you truly grasp the part of your soul that belongs to you. life.
Start living a real life, a sober life, a meaningful life! And separation and death are accompanied by pain, so there is Neil who is approaching the end of his life under the moonlight, and there is Kedding who is forced to leave school. However, behind the pain is the gestation of new life, so the film allows us to see Todd, seeing the classroom full of Todds, this is the continuation and the future!