Two films I watched recently were about poetry, Dead Poets Society and The Postman.
Poetry and prose are two attitudes, two emotions, and two lives. Life is as trivial as prose, passion is like poetry that rejects mediocrity.
When real poets bring poetry into the prose life of ordinary people, disaster often ensues—in these two films, death. Perhaps this is why Plato drove the poet out of the city-state. Poetry is an aphrodisiac, not everyone can take it.
In addition, it is natural that this film can't beat "brave heart" at the Oscars. It begins with a communist poet loved by the people (female) being exiled and ends with an unemployed communist reciting poetry at a rally. It didn't work - because it was suppressed by the bourgeois state apparatus... nothing compared to the Scottish fighters chanting liberty against the tyranny of England.
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