Carpe Diem....

Rating: 9/10 (18 December 2013)

Being a student was always a tough period for me. Lots of expectations, and lots of commitments, and I never really asked myself what will become of me in the next 10 or 20 years. There weren't much of a mentor for me except a few movies like 'Dead Poet's Society'. consider the scene from the movie, in which the satisfaction provided by a poem is plotted as a mathematical expression. Ironically, our lives are somewhat similar. There are teachers who will give us the knowledge about the stuff explained on the text books, but a few will dare to show us the real lessons of life. Thus, dead poets society acts as a mirror to our consumerist society. The liberation should be started from schools, and they should provide sane citizens instead of ATM machines. I always believe in movies which provides some social conscience. Even if the movie is about the relationship between a few students and their beloved teacher, we can see ourselves in them. Souls which are trying to break out from chains. Robin William's Keating, Robert Leonard's Neil, and Ethan Hawke's Todd will remain with us even after we left the movie. That is the real victory of a movie. No wonder 'Carpe Diem' is considered as one of the greatest movie quotes...