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I never saw any other sobersided film of Robin Williams (though I've seen their trailers) just those comic ones he had -I especially love Mrs.Doubtfire. But I must indispensably say that this is the most compelling, heartwarming and inspiringly sophic film he starred ever.
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Williams is depicting the role of John Keating as the neoteric faculty of Welton Academy, a very conventional exclusive prep institution for boys. With his entrance to the academy he is wayward to make a difference and conquer the hearts of his students with his newfangled way of pedagogy. As a poetry pedagogue, he would like his students to not only plainly understand poetry rather discern that we are a poetry ourselves.
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As the picture show runs on sagacious messages were imparted by Keating to his students. A couple of these are brilliantly steadfast. First, seize the days boys, make your lives extraordinary. It has been said time and time and again, too trite of a statement to forget. However, we don't take it by heart. We always live and act by what our social norms dictate us to do. We let the society control over our destiny when in fact William Ernest Henley veraciously told us in his poem Invictus that we are the captain of our ship and the master of our soul.
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Second, we must constantly see things in a different way.....when you read don't strive to see what the authors think, see what you think of your own. Watching the boobtube a lot may be blunty to oneself for others but not for me for it is widely entertaining, informative and lesson-filled at the same time. There are several misfortunes that come along our wheel of fate; yet, we can always see the good seed in every adversity. It's just a matter of a sanguine outlook. A glass of water may be half empty but then again you can always see it as half full not half empty.---
Much of the credit should go to the young casts. The story breathes an even colorful tale with the performances of the students who revived the long defunct group called the Dead Poets' Society with the inspiration of Mr.Keating who was himself the founder of the secret society.
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The suspense heightened with the disapproval of Neil Perry's (Robert Sean Leonard) father to pursue his dream of becoming a theater actor. Adding to the scene is the courageous yet obnoxious request of Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen) to the administration. Todd Anderson's coming out as played by Ethan Hawke is another deserving of noteworthiness moving from being timid and dumb to a self-assured individual with profuse self-esteem.
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Of course, you can still expect witty one-liners from Williams like when he said that we don't read poetry because it's cute...we read poetry because we are a human race. And you have there the funny and sarcastic humors and gestures from the students' dialogues and actions.
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More than the climax is the ending which gave a truly inspiring and heartbreaking scene. As the students have fully understood what is there to stand by your belief and believe that you can do what you want most in life if you willed through the wisdom of Mr.Keating.
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Although the climax and denouement are loomed with a tragic touch and the movie weaved with with lines filled with trite statements, it is still deserving of lavish praise and approbation. The trite statements themselves are reasons enough to be worthy of auspicious eulogy for they are treasurable lessons we need to inculcate in our mind. The esential theme of the story is intemperancely cliched, liberal; yet, as I surmise it, more often than not, everybody agrees.
