Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start of Dead Poet's Society, a class of prep school boys, who have spent their lives conforming to their parents desires, are presented by their new English teacher with the lesson "Carpe Diem...
...they did. Six of them looked further, back into Mr. Keating's years at Helton, and discovered the Dead Poet's Society, a group of boys who went late at night to the old Indian cave in the woods and read poetry aloud to each other...
...director Peter Weir decided, wisely though painfully, to allow reality to intrude. And in the reality of a New England boarding school, the Dead Poet's Society floundered...
Neil Perry, the frustrated actor whose father says gruffly, "You look like it's a prison term," as he tells Neil that he will leave Helton, go to military school, then to Harvard and to medical school, is the leader of the new Dead Poet's Society and the strongest character in the movie. In his talent, naivete and inability to move outside of his father's demands lies the film's tragedy...
...behind all of this is the stellar direction of Weir. He may not have built St. Andrew's, taught Williams how to act, written the Beethoven symphony or given universal appeal to the age-old theme, but Weir's dexterity in pulling all of those elements together in Dead Poet's Society must be commended...