The disadvantage of a famous high-scoring movie is that you have to watch it on many occasions before you want to watch it.
The art teacher in the first grade of high school put it in, and put it in the coffee shop I went to later. When I arrived at the university, it was still the first film in the film elective course of this semester.
Jobs said: "You must have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They will know what kind of person you really want to be."
"Death Poetry Society" is choosing such a flattering theme-"Listen to the inner voice" and "Pursuing true love" has endured in the history of movies for a long time.
The audience loves stories like this: the upper class of the old-fashioned and dogmatic school, a boy school boy with a chaotic and green taste, and then a charming enlightenment, Captain Keating, who chants poetry in his mouth, upholds the mystery and rebellion of life The banner of dogma leads the children to a beautiful new world that resonates with the sages.
Moved? Is it great? Inspiring?
When I was fifteen years old, I saw the boys standing on the desk one by one and shouting "Captain, my captain", and tears filled my eyes.
But now, he has passed the age of enthusiasm, but is shrouded in the shadow of many doubts.
Today’s rewatch in total darkness, I paid special attention to the performance of other audiences.
The classmates really gave the movie's face-a boy laughed when he tore the book and took a ruler, Cameron betrayed the Death Poetry Society and pushed Neil's suicide on Teacher Keating when someone whispered, "It's so cheap "At the end of the film, when the boys supported Keating, there were a few girls with wet eyes like me. Among them, the night after Neil was taken home by his father after the play, he got up from the bed and a key appeared in the picture. At the same time, I heard a voice next to him: "It must be a gun."
I knew the answer and thought to myself. "You guessed it", and at the same time surprised, how did this plot follow our expectations?
Seeing the traditional conservative school and the students without passion, we hope that there will be a bright light in the misty night of youth, so Captain Keating comes; seeing the students meticulously taking notes, we hope to have something different, so Keating said that the paragraph in the textbook is all rubbish. To tear off those pages; seeing a child standing on the table in response to his husband, we hope that other boys will also be inspired, and they will stand up so obediently and give us a glow. I want them to glow with the freshly mined atmosphere of freedom... Seeing Neil go to the drama interview and pass, we felt that it went so well too abnormally. As a result, his father slammed into the school in the eager eyes of everyone; saw Neil in the night. When we opened the window, the extreme incident appeared in our vision, so he committed suicide; seeing the school investigation, we had a foreboding that the disaster might flood Mr. Keating, and finally everyone followed Cameron and took turns to confirm the teacher’s crimes. .
Finally, when Keating returned to the classroom, he was in the same room with the children who had betrayed him, the substitute old man who was a symbol of boring and hateful school, the tension in the air swelled to the edge of the explosion, and all the cells in our body were ready. Excited waiting for the arrival of the climax.
"Captain, my captain" lived up to expectations and appeared on stage.
With such an analysis, you can discover how skillfully the people who made this movie repeatedly used the desire to suppress first and the desire to suppress first, and how painstakingly and painstakingly they wanted to make people cry. This is a packaged Korean drama. The difference is that the choice of background and story makes it not directly vulgar, poetry makes it look advanced, and the theme of "inner voice" raises its realm.
What's worse is the facial makeup in the characterization. Robin Williams, the actor of Keating, has a amiable and persuasive face, and the faces of the teenagers are handsome and innocent. Where are the school leaders? All the poker faces can arouse the audience's disgust without speaking, so they are almost tattooed on their faces: "I am an obnoxious and old-fashioned." It is
like a childhood fairy tale: good-looking people have beautiful hearts, and witches are mostly ugly. .
Such a movie is as ridiculous as you look at it, and as great as you say it is.
The above-mentioned suspicion of conspiracy theory, I am not eager to wash away, and return to the film itself, back to the fascinating "inner voice".
The first thing to declare is that I have no objection to this argument. After all, it is too unlovable for a young man to say bad things about freedom and ideals; I also don’t hate Mr. Keading. There must be different people everywhere, and the world can only Diverse and interesting. But I can’t say I like it—the film portrays him too much, I can’t be sure if he is a teacher with a strong heart or just a paper tiger who fools the children. The only certainty is that it is difficult for me to appreciate his way of education: what qualifications does he have to skip realist poetry without concealing his preference for romanticism? Dreaming is the instinct of young people. It can be stimulated, but it can cause disaster if it is too heavy.
In the film, such a catastrophe is Neil's death. I can't pretend whether acting is important to him, but based on my own observation, teenagers' "this is what I long for" often changes. Suddenly, he announced that acting was his destiny, rushed to apply, and he also happened to perform well. But what about this? The Creator will not be so cruel, and only give someone a talent. There is a long journey in life, and only after many attempts can I know which kind of desire will live the longest in my heart. Too early to believe that "XX is the pursuit of my life" will only bring unnecessary collisions. This is not an ideal, but an ideal disease.
Neil died, probably with the most severe symptoms, and the other boys were also sick. Ideal disease, rebellious disease, infantile disease. This is also the biggest sticking point-these children, really heard the so-called inner cry in their Mood for Love? They take the poem out of context, read the poem to please the girl, gather in the cave... Everything is just a ridiculous imitation of the Captain Keating they are obsessed with, but a rebellious posture of falling in love with themselves. And what they want to shout in their hearts is, at best, an accompaniment to the captain.
Captain Keating opened a window on their cage to show them a different view, but they scrambled to step out and proudly squeeze into another cage.
The paragraphs of "Walden Lake" are written on the front page of the book of poetry society, and I happen to love Thoreau's sentences too.
"Most people live in quiet despair, and when they enter the grave, their song has not yet been sung."
"If a person and his companion do not keep pace, it may be because he heard another drumbeat. Let him go at his own pace, no matter how fast, slow or far he walks."
We want to speak loudly. Singing, we don’t have to keep pace with our companions.
But first of all, we have to make sure that the song is our own, and that we are just hearing another drumbeat instead of losing our drumsticks.
If not, let us temporarily lock that precious "inner desire" into the safe for a few days.
You know, true treasures are timeless.
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