cerenyoncacekic Review of Dead Poets Society

Dead Poets Society (1989)

Poetry, beauty, love, romance these are what we stay alive for

[10/10 · 21 February 2024]

I watched this movie when I was a freshman. I will never forget the first time I watched this movie. I must have watched it about 9 more times after that. It's a movie that every time you watch it you see a different part of it. When you watch it 2 or 5 years later even though the movie stays the same there is more to learn. Perhaps about life or perhaps about yourself. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do. This movie changed my life in the best way possible. It taught me about friendship, poetry and most of all seizing the day, living every day as if it is your last. There is a scene in particular where Keating takes everybody to look at the pictures of the former students. He talks about how they had dreams and they all had things they wanted to achive. Some of them did some of them did not and now they are one with the ground. Their bodies have turned cold. They have a legacy "Seize the day, make your lives extraordinary". Telling us to do what we want to do because when your youth withers and dies there is nothing you can't do about it. We spend most of our lives dreaming about what we want to do without actually trying to achieve it. This film taught me that whatever the cost I should do what I love and cling to my dreams like nothing else. Our dreams are what keep us alive and bring joy and life into our souls. Don't be scared to become extraordinary or be different from everybody else. Being different is what makes you you. If you give them up to be like everybody else,who knows when you are sitting in your office on the day on a random Tuesday, it might catch up to you that you made a mistake. As Keating said "The powerful play of life goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be ?"