inspirational movies about dreams are everywhere and a lot of them turn out to be corny and cheesy Dead Poets Society maybe the only one that moved and really influenced me what makes it so special because in the movie teenage life is tragic and dreams are painfully realistic Deadpool society is a story about a group of teenagers in one of the best high schools in the United States they're bound to prosper and it's almost like the path to their future successes has already been mapped out meticulously the moment they were born there are future bankers lawyers doctors among them and in order not to disappoint their parents all their lives they've been working towards that one goal until somebody appears in their lives their English teacher John Keating with his unconventional teaching methods Keating introduced the students to the paradise of the Romantic poets gather ye rosebuds while ye may Keating exhorted telling them to see 13h days carpe diem he said and that became one of the most often quoted sayings in a movie he hoped that his students can have faith in themselves not to blindly conform dare to take the path less traveled dare to be extraordinary because the quote walt whitman the world is a powerful play it goes on and on and we may contribute a verse while it's undoubtedly beautiful and romantic to phrase these life lessons through the words of the poets if the movies start progressing here and show us how the students are so inspired to chase the dreams and how their lives turn out to be exceptional it would be no different than those cliche inspirational quotes / life stories you see random people share on Facebook the interesting part of the movie comes from the second half where it radically changes its tone and becomes an examination on happiness dreams and death this part of the movie and revels from the moment Neil got the part to play in the drama production Neil loved acting even dreamed of becoming an actor but his father wanted him to become a doctor he knew that his dad wouldn't let him play the so he held that out on his dead and faked a ladder of agreement to the production on the night of performance Leo received an ovation due to his remarkable talent but his father remained unimpressed he chastised Neel and told him that he would be withdrawn from the school and transferred to a military academy to prepare for university Neel was distressed knowing that his father is never gonna let him pursue a career in acting he decided to commit suicide the same night the school conducted a full investigation on the matter putting the blame on Keating's and conventional teaching they required the students to sign a document to attest to that some were uncooperative and would rather be expelled than to sign the document but most of them compromised under the threat of expulsion with sufficient evidence Keating was fired the main theme of deathcore society is actually how it constantly challenges our traditional definition of happiness from a romanticism standpoint first it is the value of success in a traditional sense one of the things that's special about the story arc is how it attaches success from dream chasing it didn't tell you with banality how if you don't give up in your dreams they will come true someday it showed you if somebody aspires to become an actor not only that dream is incredibly far-fetched but they're also left distraught and dead if someone defends their favorite teacher who made their lives that much more exciting they get expelled if someone does not conform to the usual teaching paradigm and insist on upholding their ideals they get fired in less than a year reality is always that cruel to dreams but it is precisely how the movie detached success from it that the value of dreams and perseverance shine more brightly than ever when a lot of stories coupled the persistence in green chasing and the eventual success we think to ourselves if we're getting the best of both worlds what's the struggle in the face of the cruelty of reality at the point where we must choose between the two inevitably we ask ourselves what's really worth pursuing is that the romance of the dreams or is it the eventual success where dreams and persistence means to an end like a philosopher and the movie presents the audience with a thought experiment to find out which one of two values do we value more we don't imagine a world where we can obtain both of them or be it possible we imagine the case where they conflict if we want to find out whether we value our own existence in reality or happiness more we don't imagine us existing an everyday reality and being happy although that is more than possible we ask ourselves to choose between being plugged into a simulated reality where we can be as happy as we want versus existing in the real world even though it may be full of pain the thought experiment constructed is exactly the famous experience machine argument by philosopher Robert Nozick in the same vein the movie realistically tells us that oftentimes believing in your dreams and actually accomplishing them does not have an inevitable causal relationship in this case do we value the brief sparkle of romance more than a successful life and the security that comes with it the story goes on to challenge our attitude to life and death the theme of Jeff is a subtle yet recurring one in the movie and you can even say that it is the actual main motif of the story from Keating's first lesson where he led the students Suria fill of pictures of school alumni with the poem his versions make much of time was mentioned and how the flowers smiling today will be dying tomorrow too many poems and verses mentioned later involve the relationship between life and death one of the most memorable lessons that Keating taught his students was when he said that medicine for business engineering these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life but portray Beauty romance love these are what people stay alive for Keaton went on to quote Whitman's omiyo live in a grim and seemingly hopeless society portrayed where everything appears to be so aimless we can't help but to ask ourselves what good amid these what motivates us to keep going and for Whitman the answer is that we're still living life exists and identity the commencement of meeting of the Dead Poets Society features a paragraph from Thoreau's Walden in which life and death again serve as the road went to live in the woods because he wanted to experience the essence of life to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life so that he wouldn't when he dies discover that he had not lived after neo suicide Keating revisited this paragraph emotionally overwhelmed heartbroken and cried from the traditional point of view the society has implicitly imposed on us death is basically the worst thing that can happen to a person which is also why we categorized this movie as a tragedy in the first place but wouldn't we be guilty of having the exact mindset that merely set out to challenge through these verses see for the writer is one thing may very well be worst and dying that is to lose your identity to never have written down a verse of your own and to find out that you have not lived but when you die for nill he understood clearly that after this attempt of rebellion he would have to follow the path his family laid down for him at least for the next 10 years or he would be doing was to study medicine even though that was no Broadway taking part in that production maybe the only point in his life where his individuality truly takes the main stage and shines if life is mundane and ordinary after this digression even if he would have everything to sustain life but what he staying alive for is lost then for Neil the suicide was in the tragedy because he'd contributed his own short but original verse he had truly left in this regard new suicide was romantic it was emancipating and happy even but the narrative of the movie isn't pushed further to this point only questions are being raised using romanticism to challenge a world overshadowed by realism unlike many other the movie did not conspicuously advocate for the romantics because we all know that it's foolish to cite definitively that one of two values is more noble and worth pursuing for every line like this only in their dreams can men be truly free it was always thus and always thus will be there will always be a response like this show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams and I'll show you a happy man at the end the movie pass the struggle and decision back to us we can choose to be like Charlie to defend the teacher who has enlightened you with the lyrics of the romantics adamant even in the threat of expulsion or we can be like taught and the others to compromise in the face of reality either way Keating wouldn't say that you're wrong because at the end of the day Keating himself is not exactly the resolute advocate for Romanticism either as he said time for daring we are left with the choices to trade-offs and the compromises to make to struggle through life and I think he would just hope merely that we don't forget the teacher like him ever existed [Music] and you boys thank you one methylene bin from divulging I don't like you go to some [ __ ] fight you're gonna say done her say