Was expecting better after the hyped reviews.

Rating: 3/10 (20 April 2019)

I had heard this film was a classic and was expecting to get drawn in and mesmorised by an amazing story. Sadly an hour into the film I failed to see the hype. The issue, was it just appeared to be a flat boring story about some well behaved kids of privelege at a school where an unorthodox English teacher who enthusiastically opens their minds and views to how poetry is romantic and can "change the world" with all that Carpe DM BS... sorry but in the real world iv seen alot of people that are still holding onto that attitiude "live for today don't think about tomorrow" are alcoholic, skint, singletons... Anyway I digress... the kids believe every word of it without argument and the plot never really went anywhere, the kids were neither rebellious nor transformed in their attitudes by poetry. It was just boring. I just failed to see what was so amazing about it.