Dead creativity society

Rating: 3/10 (12 July 2001)

This movie was a blockbuster and it's sure easy to see why.It's got a nice ,vapid ,"moving" screenplay ,with enough demagogy to win over the White House.You cannot be wrong when you show a nice ,modern,likeable,teacher.Is there anybody to tell me why cool teachers are always lit teachers?Look at the maths teacher:he's so grotesque that only naive people will bother.It sure is easier to tear out pages from a literature book:after all,you can study Thomas Hardy before Edgar Allan Poe ,who cares?Or use a "method" of your own.But try to study,say,the differential equations before the exponential fonction! Actually Robin Williams character is dangerous and should be kicked out .His influence makes one of his students commit suicide:that does not prevent his mindless idiot mates to give him (the teacher) a loud cheer.Don't tell me their "carpe diem" mentor teaches them to live! In "the prime of Miss Jean Brodie" ,an almost unfairly forgotten movie,Ronald Neame refused that easy way.The teacher (fabulous Maggie Smith) was nice too,and her huge influence on her pupils lead to very bad things (sympathy for facism!).As a final,one of her pupils (Pamela Franklin) comes to say how much she despises her!We're far from Peter Weir's obnoxious weepie.Soon after,he would come back to making good movies as the highly superior "fearless" and "the trueman show" testify. And if you want a very good "school" Weir movie ,take "Picnic at Hanging Rock" instead of this "dead creativity society".