one of my favorites

Rating: Null/10 (3 July 2003)

"dead poets society" has always been one of my favorite movies.
a lot of people complain that this movie is cheesy or extremely sentimental. well, it is. williams' character is teaching the boys about romanticism, which as a movement, is seen as incredibly cheesy and sentimental to our modern day affections for cynicism and sarcasm. i mean, come on, now a days, if anyone wrote "a poem to a grecian urn", they'd be the laughing stock of us all. and have you SEEN those pre-raphealite paintings? pretty cheesy. but, nontheless, beautiful.
the movie itself is a lesson. it tells aboout the glory of romanticism, about breaking away from the harsh rules of society and of making your own fate, but, how ultimately, we can't escape from everything that we hate about the world. (possibly a spoiler:) neil's suicide is so perfectly in tune with romanticism and the loss of faith in it, that it makes sense in the movie.
if people go into this movie looking for faults, they will find them. but if they are willing to look past our modern conceptions of life, dead poets society is an uplifting, exciting movie.