Because it was you...

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 1999)

When I saw "Dead Poets Society" for the first time, I was fourteen and I did not know it at all. It was a great shock. I loved this movie so much that I cried even after the end of the credit titles.
A month before seeing this movie, I played Puck in Midsummer Night Dream in a small company ( theatre ) with my friends. It was the first time I played a Shakespearean role, and... it was a kind of revelation. Even today, I love Shakespeare, and I play this year in Much Ado About Nothing. When we played A Midsummer Night Dream, we were glad and happy to play together. A month later, three days before I saw for the first time Dead Poets Society, one of my friends who played Oberon with me in Midsummer Night Dream died in a car accident.
This story and this film taught me something : Carpe Diem. The life was so short that we don't have the right to waste it. Of course, my own story is not really the film's screenplay. But for me and for my friends, there will be forever in this film something of Pierre, something of him which shines in Neil's eyes when he plays Puck, something of him in Neil's smile, something of him in the little stars in the sky...