Dead Poet's Society

    To test gold is to set it in a furnace of fire, refining it on a raging lame, and our purest self is proven till it is tested with perils and bafflement Philosophy, Aesthetics, Love - to feel, to live, to be who we are, to be human is what this poetically deep Peter Weir's film, The Dead Poets Society (1989), is all about.

    Casted by award-winning Oscar-nominated Robin Willams, this camera roll incapsules the beauty of friendship, learning, and romance that will tickle the last pore of humanity The discovery of the long-gone Dead Poets Society, an underground social group in the school, by Keating's students - Neil (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd (Ethan Hawke), Knox (Josh Charles), Steven (Allelon Ruggiero). Charlie (Gale Hansen), Gerard (James Waterston), and Richard (Dylan Kussman)-will become a religion of the youngsters. each night they come to the Indian cave, reciting poetry of the giants such as Whitman, Shelley, and Byron, singing through the rhythm of saxophone; flying up to the smokes of cigarettes.

    The Society will come to be a place of hope for everyone, especially for Neil. who wants to become an actor despite his father's constant revocation. Neil's secret audition to the theatre shows the innate struggle for passion, even on the face of death. This episode will become the catapult to the climax of the story as each pages prolifically play the meter of their lives.

    Intriguing and unpredictable, this classic film portrays the everyday strife of individual existentialism, scratching all standards society has set, leaving only the pages of all possibilities. This unconventional way, however, will be cut off as the headmaster will discharge Keating for the tragic hap, setting of the students to his defense.

    Being who we are, that is what this movie is telling us to strive for. Truth may send us in prison yet only by being true to our hearts will we ever be truly free and make a difference. As what Robin Williams uttered, "No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world"