Somewhere, Story like this still happens, So I hope that this movie would be seen by more people.

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2014)

"Dead Poets Society" is a movie about students in Welton Academy, a conservative and traditional school, finding their own thoughts and ways of seeing the world, inspired by their new teacher, John keating. They form a club named "Dead Poets Society", and have poetry reading, and share free thoughts about their own view to the world, and try several things they are not allowed to even think about by school in a cave. They go through lots of changes in their perspective on their lives, but somehow, cruel reality of real society turns them down. However in the end they learn valuable lessons that they might never forget through their lives by "Standing Up" on their own feet. Through the movie, John Keating is always there to help the boys, and to instruct them to get to the real truth of life, "Carpe diem."
Even though this movie is set in 1950s, I could easily empathize with the characters. Several settings in the movie such as their rigid instructor like Dr.Hager, suffocating father, Mr. Perry, or "Orthodox education method" that Dr.Hager insists, and mandatory school uniforms which kill the characteristics of each member of the students reminded me so much of my school life which was from 2005 to 2007. Because in Korea, still, fever of education for their kids among parents are irrationally rampant, I actually was kind of like the students in the movie who were forced by adults to "obey" the rules, never being allowed to "think" by themselves. Watching the movie, I felt the exact catharsis that those enthusiastic and ambitious boys felt with John's "unorthodox" way of teaching.
Overall, the movie was so good that Iwould say it is one of my top best 10 movies from 20th century. The plot was very believable, and convincing, and the performances of the young actors were outstanding. I cried when they cried, and I shouted "Oh, captain, my captain!" when they shouted out loud "Oh, captain, my captain!" At the end, poignant scenes involving tears of sincere and poor boys left in the cruel society made me think a lot about "whose fault can we say it is on the tragedies." Could we blame the period of the time, 1950s, or generation, or just adults? I think it's "blindness" whether it is deliberate, or naturally passed that we have to think about. I think this question made it such a good movie. And because of so many parents in Korea these days still blindly pursuing only good results of school grades of their children, I think a movie like this should be seen more to be aware of what value we should put our priorities on – especially when it's about our society's future inner circle-to-be. Every year, I fear to use internet on the second week or the third week of November because it's when news about suicides of devastated Korean students who failed to succeed on College Scholastic Ability Test comes up on major portal sites. Whoever did not see this movie, especially if you are Korean, I highly recommend that you watch this movie.