Dead Poets Society | Film Friday
This film, from the director of The Truman Show, tells the story of a high school teacher and the students he inspired to seek beauty and creativity through an appreciation of poetry and the arts.
The story follows a group of high school students at an elite boarding school in New England. A recently hired English teacher, named John Keating, begins teaching them poetry but in a manner that is different from the other professors and more engaging. As a result, the young boys begin to see education and learning not so much as something merely to be completed, but something in which they can participate and through which they can learn to think for themselves.
However, both the faculty and the parents of many of the boys are rather displeased with Keating’s unorthodox teaching style and serious trouble ensues when one of the boys, Neil Perry, decides to pursue acting instead of the path towards medical school his parents set out for him.
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