Inspiring and stimulating

Rating: 9/10 (23 August 2001)

I loved this film when I was a teenager and still do. Although the story is set in the late fifties the message does not age : to look at things in a different angle, follow your inner voice and contribute your verse, how refreshing !
If you are cynical (or a sheep!), forget this film and save your breath : you haven' t got that sensitivity and you would not understand what it is all about. It is too easy to be cynical about everything. So follow the herd of the cynics who abound these days.
I do not need the help of a guru or a Keating to seize the day. However I like the idea that you should be free of the need to be popular or approved by others to make your life interesting to yourself. More often I believe hell is others, like Sartre would say.
This movie contains some excellent thought-provoking material and gives a poetical philosophy of life as well. It also has great sensitivity, with attaching characters and deeply moving scenes and music. More films like this, please !