Amazing movie

Rating: 10/10 (8 March 2005)

The basic plot of "Dead Poets Society" is this: A group of teenagers are attending a private boys prep school when they meet the man who will change their lives forever. The man is John Keating (Robin Williams) their new English teacher who instills on them a love of poetry and the idea of "Carpe Diem" (Seize the Day). In Keating's brief employment at the school his students find his old yearbook discovering that he was a member of the "Dead Poets Society" and decide to press him on the matter. The students soon find out that the "Dead Poets Society" was a group of students who would go to a cave by night and live poetry. They would feel the passion of poetry burning through them and the joy of the written word in it's purest form, poetry. From there the students start the society up again and begin to feel what Keating was talking about. After the society is started up again the lead of the movie, Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard) joins a play without informing his strict father of his intents. The night before the play Neil is confronted by his father (Kurtwood Smith) and told to quit the play. Once again Neil deceives his father and tells him that he will quit. Neil goes to the play the next day and gives a miraculous performance, but unfortunately for Neil his father catches him and takes him home telling him that he is going to be taken out of the prep school and put into military school. Neil becomes severely depressed and commits suicide. When his schoolmates find out about this they are extremely distraught and become even more crestfallen when they find out the school is blaming their beloved teacher, John Keating. They are all confronted by the school and one by one are forced to sign a paper that states they were members of the "Dead Poets Society" and that John Keating is responsible for the death of Neil Perry. In the last scene of the movie the students finally stand up for what they believe in a defy the school by taking a "different look" on life and at the same time saluting their recently fired instructor.