Roger Albert said it was a bad movie!

Geovanny 2022-03-20 09:01:02

"Death Poetry Society" uses a lot of seemingly pious clichés to promote the life creed of persistence. The film tells about how an inspired English teacher who does not stick to the traditions in the best preparatory school in the United States teaches his students to challenge traditional views and change their traditional understanding by standing on the desk, and so on. The result of the matter is that this talented teacher will definitely be fired and left behind. At the end of the film, the scene of the students standing on the desk protesting made me deeply moved and moved.

Pete Weir’s film makes too much poetic noise. There are many short quotes from poems such as Tennyson, Herrick, Whitman, and even Fankel Lindsay. Carrying out a brave exploration, its depth has reached Thoreau's "Walden". However, the film does not conduct a more in-depth study of the authors listed, but it can indeed guide students to love poetry. However, these verses were quoted vigorously by the students and served as a resounding slogan for the pursuit of freedom.
After this great teacher's poetry class, students will fall in love with poetry; but at the end of this semester, the students really fall in love with this teacher.

Robin Williams plays the witty and eloquent John Keaton, a maverick English teacher at Wilton College in Vermont, whose performance maintains a subtle balance between character control and humorous performance balanced.

For most of the film, Robbins is very good at playing a smart, wise, and knowledgeable teacher. But when he parody Marlon Brando and John Wayne, his performance weakened John Keaton's character image.

Compared with other great screen teachers, like Miss Jane Brody and Professor Kingsfield, John Keaton lacks a curious depth. In my opinion, his existence is the strategy of the storyline, and Not a character.

The stories are also very old. Just like recycling from movies or novels like "A Separate Peace", the good people in such stories often die young, and the accumulated neurotic pain and depression will suddenly erupt. The main conflict of the film is between Neil and his father. Neil dreams of becoming an actor, but his father arranges everything for his life, asking him to become a doctor and preventing him from performing on stage. His father was a strict and stubborn parent, but Neal lacked the courage to fight with his father on the basis of reason. As a result, he committed suicide to understand all this. Neal's death has a strong impact on me. It is not so much a meticulous screenwriting and filming in the traditional mode, but a human accusation of despair.

Other elements of the film are also like tangrams that have already been selected. A romantic story between a Wilton student and a local girl did not give more description, so that it seemed to be a careless stroke and distracted the audience's attention. I felt extremely uncomfortable when I saw a group of embarrassed, self-proclaimed bohemian cultural people gathering in secret gatherings in caves near the school in the dead of night.

The "Death Poetry Society" was founded by Keaton during his college years, but he was not full of mystery, rebellion, and fearlessness when he came out of the "Death Poetry Society". The film portrays the "Death Poetry Club" party so pale and feeble, only a section of the dance accompanied by Lindsay's poem "Congo" and the verses used indiscriminately to please the girls. The film is set in 1959, but none of them have heard of Kerouac, Ginsburg, or the Beatles fashion movement.

There is a scene in the film, which shows that there is still a gap between the film's human nature and the state of the film. When Keaton was framed by the school and became the scapegoat for Neal's suicide, a student played an informer who said what the old stubborn wanted to hear
. Later, in the face of a classmate’s questioning, he made a nasty excuse, but apart from his tentative efforts to embarrass himself, none of what he said seemed to be convincing. And the punch that one of the students slammed into his face aroused enthusiastic applause from the audience. The whole scene is false, because the screenwriter is unwilling to explore better methods other than using violence to solve the problem.

"Death Poetry Society" is not the worst among countless recent films about good children and dogmatic old men. But among the films that cater to young audiences, it can be said to be the most shameless. The film speaks well, it pays attention to quality and pursues value, but the script itself is very happy to degenerate. If you want to take Henry David Thoreau as the patron saint of your film, then you'd better make it that he can appreciate movie of. The following is my favorite passage from Henry David Thoreau’s "Walden Lake". Here I recommend it to the author of this film, hoping to learn more and think about it seriously: "Rather than thinking about how to sell My basket is more valuable. It’s better to think about how to make them not have to buy my basket.”

Author: Roger Albert

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19890609/REVIEWS/906090301/1023

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Extended Reading
  • Celine 2022-03-25 09:01:02

    Do not follow the rules, grow wantonly, indulge life, and do your best for what you love. All these things are exciting to say, but not easy to do. You can believe in idealism without reservation, but most people can't escape the realism of reality after all. But no matter what, we will be moved by it, this time, with warm encouragement.

  • Meggie 2022-04-24 07:01:01

    Most people live in peaceful despair, yes, but it's not enough just to realize that, breaking the ice requires more than awakening and determination, but more importantly, taking on all the possibilities that may arise in the struggle Willpower and guts for failure and frustration. The sadness of adults is probably that although they realize that they have no meaning in life, they have long lost the courage to stand on the table.

Dead Poets Society quotes

  • Richard Cameron: Hey Neal, business as usual, huh? I heard you got the new kid. He looks like a stiff!

    [laughs a little and when Todd, the new kid, appears, he gets embarrassed]

    Richard Cameron: Oops!

  • Dalton: Gentlemen, what are the Four Pillars?

    DaltonMeeksNeilKnoxTodd Anderson: Travesty. Horror. Decadence. Excrement.