Dreams are setting sail—Reflections after watching "Dead Poets Society" (Sorry, the number of words is not enough, for reference) This is a film about youth and dreams. The story takes place in the Wilton Mission School in the United States in the mid-19th century. It was an old school full of dogma and rigidity. Tradition, discipline, honor and excellence are the four pillars of the school. However, at the beginning of the new semester, the arrival of English teacher Kiting quietly changed all this. While all the other teachers were conducting their teaching in an orthodox and serious way, the new teacher Kedding whistled and took his students out of the classroom with a unique pursuit of knowledge. road. He taught his students carpe diem, seize the day, make your lives extraordinary, seize the time and make your lives extraordinary. He led them to appreciate the beauty of poetry, leaving behind rigid style, rhyme, and rhetorical techniques. He made them understand that romance and passion are the keys to a good poem. He said: "Yes, medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits, enough to sustain a person's life. But poetry , beauty, romance, love, these are the meanings of our lives. "What he possesses is absolute romance and passion. He disdains worldly utility. He encourages his students to pursue their dreams and indulge their own personalities. , in a rigorous and rigid school, he did his best to provide broad space for development for those children who longed for freedom. He taught them to stand at the table and see things differently, no matter if it seemed silly or incorrect. He taught them to stick to their own pace and pace, and to stick to the path of their own choosing. "Two roads diverged in the woods, and I will take the one less traveled by." Under the influence of Teacher Keating, a group of children like him appeared in the school who loved life and pursued their dreams. These children together formed a society called the "Dead Poets Society". During the day, they endured the rigid and rigorous education in school. At night, they walked through the woods and across the river with flashlights on their way to a date with poetry and dreams. However, reality is always a ruthless blow to people full of dreams. For these romantic poets, when they first embarked on that unique path of pursuing their dreams, tragedy had quietly sown the seeds. Schools and families gradually discovered the rebellion of these children, and they tried their best to crack down on these rebellious seedlings. The kid named Charlie had always been the most rebellious, and this time he was the first to stand up against the school rules. The result was predictable. He was taken to the principal's office, subjected to corporal punishment, and was even about to be expelled. And Neil, the founder of the "Dead Poets Society", a child who loves poetry and performances, was asked to accept the path his father chose for him to become a doctor. Despite his father's repeated warnings, he chose Persevering in our dreams comes at a heavy price that we didn't expect. After he successfully performed the play "A Midsummer Night's Dream", his angry father severely reprimanded him. Neil, who deeply felt that there was no hope of realizing his dream, chose an extreme approach and ended up with a bullet on a cold winter night. My own young and blooming life. Neil's death brought a heavy blow to the members of "Dead Poets Society" and Teacher Keating. The school and Neil's parents blamed Teacher Keating for Neil's death and expelled him accordingly. "Dead Poets Society" also disbanded under the pressure of the school. On the surface, it seems that those who hold on to their dreams have bowed their heads under the pressure of cruel reality. However, the last scene of the film allows us to see the existence of hope. The moment Teacher Keating is about to leave the classroom, Todd, who has always been weak, suddenly climbs on the table and shouts "oh, Captain, my captain!" Next, The children who were deeply influenced by Teacher Keating also stood on the table. I think he should be pleased that these children bid farewell to Keating in this way. He left, but his thoughts stayed. In the future, these children may no longer rebel. They will follow the school's requirements and fulfill their parents' expectations, but they will always have the light of freedom and bravery in their hearts. While watching the film, I once had doubts about Keating's approach. In such a staid and traditional school, all the teachers strictly adhere to everything they think is right. Only he, only Keating, did things that ran counter to the school's tradition. This was tantamount to hitting an egg with an egg, and the consequences could be imagined. But he did it anyway, without any scruples, and encouraged his students to be as brave as him to pursue their dreams. Until the end of the film, I was not sure whether I agreed with Keating's approach. Is resistance meaningful for children who are oppressed by ruthless reality? However, I thought of the iron house written by Lu Xun. Keating and his students also lived in such an iron room. Keating woke up the sleeping children and gave them the courage and hope to break the iron house. , but there is no guarantee that they will be able to break out of this iron room. However, he at least left hope. Rather than dying in a daze, I think these children should be more willing to face the unshakable facts soberly.
After all, they are still young. If they did not have dreams when they were young, if they were not crazy enough when they were young, then they will definitely regret it when they are old, just like the poem said: "I walked into the jungle because I hope Life is meaningful. I hope to live deeply, absorb all the essence of life, and defeat everything that is not life, so that when my life ends, I will find that I have never lived. "I have also heard someone say, "Dead Poets Society." "What is presented is not a protest against discipline, but a warning to people about the power of this social force through the clumsy and primitive search for self." But I would rather believe that this movie praises the greatness of dreams and the meaning of persistence. At the end of the movie, although everything returns to calm, the ideas brought by Teacher Keating will still surge under the calm surface like an undercurrent, until finally defeating the traditional system that suppresses people's dreams and freedom.