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I'm the first to admit that I get a little sappy when writing about Dead Poets Society. I first saw the film during my senior year of high school, and 16 years later it's a movie that is still with me, one that I go back to time and time again.here's a little bit of formula at work here: A stuffy rep school, 1950s, a collection of impressionable young boys, and a teacher that will change their lives. But there's something at work that turns what could have been a forgettable, droll piece of saccharine storytelling into a classic. Part of it is Robin Williams as Mr. Keating, a young English teacher that uses poetry to teach them how to "Sieze the day," to suck the marrow out of life, as Thoreau put it.The poetry angle is an interested and unexpected one. P utting a kid in front of the class, covering his eyes, and forcing him to free associate until he comes up with a verse about Walt Whitman? Sounds ridiculous, but it works. In fact, it's one of the most powerful scenes in the film.That's because the kids in the film are just as good as Williams is here. Robert Sean Leonard is the ostensible star as Neil, a deeply repressed lad who's the class president type yet dreams of doing something artistic, despite the insistence by his father (Kurtwood Smith) that he become a doctor. And then there's roommate Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), an intensely shy young man who's attending Welton Academy for the first time this year and will be memorably brought out of his shell, fighting all the way, by Keating. The other students of note -- Josh Charles as a lovesick kid and Gale Hansen as the unforgettable rebel "Nuwanda" -- are equally apt.Ultimately the film revolves around Neil's story, when he decides for the first time to defy his father and act in a local play -- as Puck, in A Midsummer Night's Dream, of all things. This leads to a series of catastrophic events that culminates in (spoiler alert from here on out) Neil's suicide and the scapegoating/firing of Keating for it.At once uplifting and emotionally crushing, there's no way to leave this movie without wanting to somehow improve your life and follow Keating's advice by seizing the day. Every time I watch the film I'm compelled to complete some lingering project, plan a trip, move into a new house, or do something unforgettable. Weir's direction perfectly captures the 1950s mood -- an era of repression just on the verge of breaking wide open -- and Williams manages to keep his mania in check for the bulk of the film, trotting out an impression here or there when the story requires it.In recent years, Dead Poets Society has become a curious platform for deconstruction and revisionism. Viewers wonder, among other things, whether Neil was so troubled because he was secretly gay. Whether Keating might genuinely be guilty of contributing to his death. Whether "Sieze the day" isn't such a great motto after all. I'm not actually supporting any of these ideas per se, but the latter-day ruminating gives the film more weight than you might otherwise think, and it makes the movie all the richer for it."Dead Poets Society" is a collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something: doing your own thing, I think. It's about an inspirational, unconventional English teacher and his students at "the best prep school in America" and how he challenges them to question conventional views by such techniques as standing on their desks. It is, of course, inevitable that the brilliant teacher will eventually be fired from the school, and when his students stood on their desks to protest his dismissal, I was so moved, I wanted to throw up.Peter Weir's film makes much noise about poetry, and there are brief quotations from Tennyson, Herrick, Whitman and even Vachel Lindsay, as well as a brave excursion into prose that takes us as far as Thoreau's Walden. None of these writers are studied, however, in a spirit that would lend respect to their language; they're simply plundered for slogans to exort the students toward more personal freedom. At the end of a great teacher's course in poetry, the students would love poetry; at the end of this teacher's semester, all they really love is the teacher.The movie stars Robin Williams as the mercurial John Keating, teacher of English at the exclusive Welton Academy in Vermont. The performance is a delicate balancing act between restraint and schtick.For much of the time, Williams does a good job of playing an intelligent, quick-witted, well-read young man. But then there are scenes in which his stage persona punctures the character - as when he does impressions of Marlon Brando and John Wayne doing Shakespeare. There is also a curious lack of depth to his character compared with such other great movie teachers as Miss Jean Brodie and Professor Kingsfield. Keating is more of a plot device than a human being.The story is also old stuff, recycled out of the novel and movie "A Separate Peace" and other stories in which the good die young and the old simmer in their neurotic and hateful repressions.The key conflict in the movie is between Neil (Robert Sean Leonard), a student who dreams of being an actor, and his father (Kurtwood Smith), who orders his son to become a doctor and forbids him to go onstage. The father is a strict, unyielding taskmaster, and the son, lacking the will to defy him, kills himself. His death would have had a greater impact for me if it had seemed like a spontaneous human cry of despair,rather than like a meticulously written and photographed set piece.Other elements in the movie also seem to have been chosen for their place in the artificial jigsaw puzzle. A teenage romance between one of the Welton students and a local girl is given so little screen time, so arbitrarily, that it seems like a distraction. And I squirmed through the meetings of the "Dead Poets Society," a self-consciously bohemian group of students who hold secret meetings in the dead of night in a cave near the campus.The society was founded by Keating when he was an undergraduate, but in its reincarnate form it never generates any sense of mystery, rebellion or daring. The society's meetings have been badly written and are dramatically shapeless, featuring a dance line to Lindsay's "The Congo" and various attempts to impress girls with random lines of poetry. The movie is set in 1959, but none of these would-be bohemians have heard of Kerouac, Ginsberg or indeed of the beatnik movement.One scene in particular indicates the distance between the movie's manipulative instincts and what it claims to be about. When Keating is being railroaded by the school administration (which makes him the scapegoat for his student's suicide), one of the students acts as a fink and tells the old fogies what they want to hear. Later, confronted by his peers, he makes a hateful speech of which not one word is plausible except as an awkward attempt to supply him with a villain's dialogue. Then one of the other boys hits him in the jaw, to great applause from the audience. The whole scene is utterly false and seems to exist only so that the violence can resolve a situation that the screenplay is otherwise unwilling to handle."Dead Poets Society" is not the worst of the countless recent movies about good kids and hidebound, authoritatian older people. It may, however, be the most shameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience. The movie pays lip service to qualities and values that, on the evidence of the screenplay itself, it is cheerfully willing to abandon. If you are going to evoke Henry David Thoreau as the patron saint of your movie, then you had better make a movie he would have admired. Here is one of my favorite sentences from Thoreau's Walden, which I recommend for serious study by the authors of this film: " . . . instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them." Think about it.There's so much good about this movie. The first time I saw it I watched it solely for plot and I loved it. Now I've seen it again and watched Peter Weir's filming and timing which is also great. Robin Williams is a terrific actor when he's serious. He proved it in Good Will Hunting but he proved it first here. If you liked that movie and your liking it had something to do with Williams than you will like this one. The plot is about a number of students who are taught by Williams about life. They are taught how to enjoy themselves. This ends up causing great controversy among the heads of the school. The students are terrific and even the dialogue is great. This is a movie that I can't imagine anyone not liking. It is good in every way.There are certain films that get under your skin, never to come out. They change your life, subtly altering your perceptions of reality, almost always for the better.Dead Poets Society is one of those few films.I saw the movie back when I was in High School. I had a teacher who told us that we really needed to watch it; in fact, it was our "homework" for the day. We didn't need to bring back a report, or talk about it in class. All he asked from us was to watch it, make up our own mind about it, and that was it. As you can imagine, many friends of mine didn't watch it at all; I did. And yes, I feel I changed a bit from there on.Back when you are young, you never really stop to think what in the world you are doing with your life. You simply live for the day, hope your grades will be enough to pass, and that's it. Long term thinking involves maybe flirting with a girl. Nothing more. What this film showed me was that we have the responsability and the joy of being alive in this planet. That we are dust, and we will go back to it, so we have precious little time to make a difference. That we have a moral obligation to "seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary" (my favorite quote in all movie history). That the world, basically is ours. That the only limitations are within ourselves, and that we owe it to us to fight, to rebel against conformity, to change what we hate and keep what we love. That living in this world is a beautiful responsability, and that only cowards dare not to change it for the better.The fact that the cast was basically my age, and was passing through the same dilemmas and situations I was facing made it all so much more powerful.o here I sit, 12 years from that day. I still don't think I have seized the day completely. But I keep on trying; I always will. I wonder how many people were transformed by this gem of a movie; I hope many.10 out of 10. A definitive masterpiece.尼尔佩里（肖恩罗伯特伦纳德），托德安德森（伊桑霍克），诺克斯斯特里特（乔什查尔斯），查理道尔顿（烈风汉森），理查德卡梅伦（迪伦库斯曼），史蒂芬米克斯（Allelon鲁杰罗）和Gerard皮茨（詹姆斯沃特斯顿）出席在威尔顿学院预备学校。

ReviewofThefilmDeathPoetsSociety死亡诗社影评第一篇：Review of The film Death Poets Society死亡诗社影评Seize Everyday and Learn How to Think-----Review of The film Death Poets Society Everyone as an individual seems extremely small in the pared with human history which stems from ancient time and appears endless, a person with a very short life cycle is just like a fleeting meteor in the universe.However, once a person comes to the world, he bears his own value, no matter how little it is.In the film Death Poets Society, Mr.Keating, instructing students to appreciate poetry in a special way, once quoted the Latin phrase Carpe Diem which means seize the day to teach his students to cherish every day.He is inclined to tell his students that life is as short as flower bosom, but life is full of sunshine and hope and that they ordinary people should believe in themselves and make efforts to realize life value in their limited lifetime.He is the teacher who not only teaches knowledge on how to read poets, but also gives his students confidence and courage to think deeply from their bottom of heart what is life and how to face life.The film finally ends with an astonishing tragedy when the student Neil who couldn’t achieve his dream by his father’s opposition committed suicide and Mr.Keating was fired by the school.I think every educator should watch the ironical film which bears profound meaning.Some people may argue that people are educated just for the sake of getting knowledge.Yet in my eyes, education means teaching students how to think, because the eventual objective of obtaining knowledge by students is to form a sort of attitude or value towards life, including how to deal with pressure, problems and cation meansdeveloping students’ imagination and creativity and teaching them to hold their different perspectives on the world.It appears that education in China has not yet completely achieved the substantial goal of real education.Students in China have to go through countless tests when they enter schools and fight in fierce peer competition for admission of key schools or universities.Hence, teachers emphasize more on the score results of children, thus making so called test-oriented education.Moreover, nowadays some irresponsible teachers who can’t set good example for their students, let alone their ability to teach thinking skills finally lead to student crimes or unhealthy mental growth.Since teachers play such influential roles during students’ growth and thoughts, there is still large space for improvement of Chinese teachers’ qualification.Personally, I think teaching method has a great impact on how well students can learn and teaching in a practical way is more efficient for me.For instance, my chemistry teacher once ignited my extreme interest in chemistry, for she often instructed us to make plenty of experiments to substantiate some chemistry theories rather than just tell us fixed chemistry conclusions.Furthermore, my Chinese teacher in middle school once assigned us to write a composition on snow, he took us to have a happy snowball fight in the playground, making the topic more interesting to write.To conclude, we hope that more and more teachers who can truly teach students how to think and inspire their interests in learning will appear in the prospective educational road.第二篇：死亡诗社影评《死亡诗社》主持稿同学们晚上好，我是本次图书馆观影活动的主持人，非常欢迎大家参加本次图书馆放映电影活动，本次电影的名字是《春风化雨》，又名《死亡诗社》。

Dead poets societyThe movie which the first time I heard is recommended by my friend, because the movie is so old that I didn’t want to watch it. But this time my teacher also recommended it, I think it must be a good movie. After watching it, I felt a little sad, not because of its end, but think o us today. There was much to think about in the film, maybe different people have different ideas.The film tells us a story of the U.S. wilton elite school in 1959.it’s a traditional and old fashioned school which like a prison. The ancient bells ushered in new semester and also ushered in a new teacher Keating. He calls himself the captain. T he captain like a lighthouse will lead students through the gloom. In his classroom, he encouraged his students to stand on the desk, with a new perspective to observe the world around. He introduces many thoughtful poetry to students, even allow students to tear up those dull textbooks. On the other hand they were encouraged to search the beauty and the real life in the poetry.Neil made me the deepest impression, he was fond of poem and the performances, but he was asked to become a doctor; he was the first one to comprehend Keating’s thought, but also he is the first one to reconstruct” Dead Poets Society" .on the stage he found his target, but strict father didn’t care about what he thought. Neil did not want to become a father expect people, but also unable to become a real himself,he chose to end his own life. Todd this closed and timid child, he never dared to show true himself, he was afraid that others evaluate him. Under the guidance of the teacher, he slowly began to bloom his own ideas. Neil's death made him grew up, when Keating was dismissed, he is the first one to stand on the table and shouted: Oh, the captain, my captain! Under his leadership other students also stand on the table, the moment was very impressive.I have learned many things from these two kids, the most difficult is to choose in our life. When reality and the ideal have contradiction, what kind of choice you will make? There will certainly be a gap between in reality and the ideal, but how we should do? The answer is to be the master of life, not the slave of life. When we have goals we should be bold to pursue. Carpe diem. Seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary. Do real ourselves, as the film said, "I went to the woods because I wanted to the live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "。

Dead Poets Society FeedbackLast English class，we watched a wonderful movie Dead Poets Society. It’s a wonderful movie which tells me a lot about my way of study and life.“Captain, my captain”, these words were the way which students said good-bye to their teacher John Keating. And this is the dialogue that I remember most clearly, and I think the voice came from the deepest part of students` heart. They love their teacher, and they paid their respects to Mr. Keating in this way. Mr. Keating is a good teacher in my world but not in that traditional world. So in the end of the movie, one of the students suicided and Mr. Keating left the school. All of that are caused by the traditional and old education system of the school. Fortunately, today we have more advanced system and we are free, which is the most important part of education. We should have our own ideas nor always follow others.And, another important truth that Mr. Keating taught me is that “seize the day”. He said“Carpe diem,.Seize the day, bo ys. Make your lives extraordinary”. We must value the time and make our lives meaningful, if extraordinary the better. So, saving time is another way to success.In the end, I have to say something different. I think this movie is not the most suitable one for our class movie. Because the story is too traditional and far away from our life, so the dialogue in the movie is too hard to catch up for us in level 1. By the way, to the topic of education system, I recommend the movie 3 Idiots. It`s also a wonderful movie about the education system from India, the words in it are normal and it`s more closed to our life.That`s all my view about the movie, expecting next time.黄琦32020102203252Sunday, December 05, 2010。

Dead Poets SocietyDead Poets Society❖Background:Dead Poets Society," the story takes place in 1959 in the United States, in a Originally calm school.English teacher named John Keating with his unique life Philosophy and anti-traditional teaching methods on the students so that a number of Born rich, clear future students learn to think independently and pursue self ideal own life. He skillfully teach students to experience a way of life. He inspired some brave students did not hesitate to rebuild secret society "of Death Poets Society. "Their main activities are gathered at night in a cave for histological comedy tone continued until Neil commit suicide under the pressure of his imperious father . This provoked a blind repression school, not only the film's most expelled, but the idea of freedom has taken root in mind the students, but also laid the film history of Education chapter status.❖Themes:This movie is about what happens when these students decide to pursue their own desires, and to live life with the passion that Mr. Keating encouraged. Ultimately, it is about what happens when a few idealistic students find themselves confronted against conservative forces that resist all change, including the drive for personal self-determination.❖Performance:Generally speaking ,every role did a great performance but what I want to say something about Mr. Keating .The plot centers on the influence of Mr. Keating, a young and exciting English and poetry teacher, who is determined to teach his students to live life with absolute passion. Mr. Keating, using poetry as his tool, teaches his students to challenge the institutions around them.❖My view:I was impressed by the last scene. Finally, students stood one by one on the desk to speak for Mr. Keating. Though Mr. Keating would not be back again, his impact on students will exist forever.I think that their life will certainly become unusual and significant from now on.At last, I want to dedicate some words to you. It is when Mr Keating led the students to find the meaning of life when reading Thoreau's poetry:I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, and not when I had come to die, discovered that I had not lived.To me，seize all to find out the meaning of life and one day the world will be different because of you.JackStudents number:14150508146 2015.4.3。

《死亡诗社》观后感英文版五篇电影《死亡诗社》观后感英文版<一>There are certain films that can heavily shock your soul, then elicit your thinking, and finally change your life. No doubt Dead Poets Society is one of these infrequent films. It is a film about a teacher and his students. It is a film about perseverance and change. It is a film about love and cruelty.The film is set in the United States in 1959. It shows us a series of things which happened to Mr.Keating and the young boys in Wilton Preparatory School.Mr.John Keating is certainly the main character of this film. He is a respectable teacher with a high self-cultivation. He has an advanced conception which is different from tranditional educatin. The other two main characters are Neil, a boy who is keen on performing, and Todd, a boy with a little shyness. From Todd, I see how a boy grows into a man.The film starts with the opening ceremony of Wilton Preparatory School. Todd, a shy boy, starts his school life with his roommate, Neil. On the first lesson, their taecher, Mr.Keating, just told them ‘Seize the day, make your life extraordinary’. He reads Whitman’s poet Oh Captain! My Captain. He taught the students to swim against the steam and to be themselves but not to perform. Students regard Mr.Keating as a different teacher.Neil rebuilds the ‘Dead Poets Society’. The menbers fall in love with poets, as well as Todd. When Mr.Keating asks students to try writing a poem, Todd has no idea. Mr.Keating is quite angry. With Mr.Keating’s stimulation, the youngster first time shows great talent, reading his own poem loudly.On the evening of Todd’s birthday, he talks about hisbirthday present which is the same every year and his brother ,who is so excellent that makes him feel inferior, with Neil, with sadness and a little self-mockery on his face. Neil encourages him a lot. Finally, T odd breaks up the disgusting present. Todd smiles to Neil, from the bottom of his heart.Neil has a sading ending. After performing on the stage, Neil’s father takes him home and warns him again. He just wants his son to be a doctor. Feeling despairing, in the midmight, Neil commits suicide with a gun. Both Neil’s parents and the school think that Mr.Keating is the only reason for Ne il’s death and decide to fire him. A second before Mr.Keating leaves the classroom, Todd stands up on the desk for his captain, with the menbers of Dead Poets Society followed. At that time, Todd throws out his recreance and becomes a real man.That is the end of this film. I have to say that Neil’s death is a certain event, whether there is a ‘John Keating’ or not. It is not hard to see the long distance between ideality and reality. What Mr.Keating said and taught just strengthens the conflict between Nei l’s heart and traditional conception. Neil despairs, but Todd doesn’t. We can see that Todd learns a lot from Neil and Mr.Keating, such as optimist, perseverance, courage and many other qualities which he doesn’t have before. So he stands up, and dares to shout what he thinks.I love the boy named Todd and his growth. I love the teacher called Captain and his freedom. I love the beauty of dream, as well as the cruelty of reality. The film is not only a profound story but also a sincere advice. Seize the day, make your life extraodinary. We just need to be ourselves and grow up step by step, with a clear conscience and a tenacious spirit, like a boy grows into a man.电影《死亡诗社》观后感英文版<二>The movie is one of the most wonderful films I haveever watched.T o be honest,I finished the film with tears.When the boys stood on the desks one by one,and shouted:"Oh, Captain, my Captain."I could not help crying. It was really touching my heart.The story happened in a school which had 4 pillars----Tradition,Honor,Discipline,excellence.Mr Keating,a new teacher who wanted to change the way in teaching.He told his students to do what they like to do and to enjoy themselves;to do thingsnot just obey the books,but to look at some-thing in anotherway,to consider own their minds and find new ground. With thefluence of Mr Keating, some of his students founded their own "dead poet society".Neil came to stage to do what he liked to do without hisfather's agreement,for his father do not allow him to act.Tod told the girl who had boyfriend that he loved her so much,and wrote her a poet.They did what they liked to do, and they were happy.But other teachers and students' parents were not happy about that,exspecially Neil's father. When he found his son went to act a buffoonwithout his agreement, he was so angry. He wanted Neil totransfer to another school,for he thought it was Mr Keating's fault. But, Neil didn't want to. Then, one night, Neil killedhimself. Neil died. Mr Keating became the one to be blame. And he was fired. Before he was leaving, he smailed. Because he knew his students imbeded his mind deeply into theirthoughts. That's worth it!"Poetry, beauty, romance and love,these are what we staylive for", yes, we are just a person,not a product. We live on the earth with our own passion. Without do what we like to do, I perfer I have never lived. So, Neil choose to die. Neil was not born to be a doctor as his father thought, he like acting. He killed himself in the end, in fact, it's his father killed him. Just like the actor's lines in the 3 Idiots:"It's notsuicide, it's murdered". Parents regarded the school as heaven,but to the students, it's hell. Parents always think things usetheir own minds. They never think for their chindren: Are they like it? what they like to do? They always think that become a doctor or engineer will be much honour. They never consider that their children might be not like it. They just know that become a doctor or engineer will earn a lot of money and have agood life. They always think they are right.But, sometimes,they are wrong. Absolutely wrong!Mr keating, the captain,who wanted to change theeduation system of the school and change the mind ofparents, but failed. For me,I think he did not.I think it will come true one day, also in my conutry.It is a valuable moive for us to watch, and to learn.电影《死亡诗社》观后感英文版<三>First of all, this is movie is my all-time favorite, out of all the hundreds of films I have seen. However, every time I mention this film, I have to answer most people's quizzical looks with “It's a beautiful little 80s film that stayed in the 80s.” After seeing it for the 24th time since I first saw it 5 years ago, on my 13th birthday, I can gladly say that this movie went far and beyond the 80s, and the power and inspiration of the message can be felt every day.Dead Poets Society is a most underrated film by a most underrated director whose inspiring, uplifting and moral tales firmly grounded in reality are not nearly as appreciated as they should be. Here, we see one of his very personal and cradled projects, and he shows the visual style and concentration on characters in which he is so affluent. His control of the camera and the characters are very strong and very smooth. The cinematography is near perfect, with every shot, along with the editing, seamless. Also very compelling are the color-tones in every scene, perfectly matching the mood and events of the scene. Could you say this is art? Absolutely.Then we have the performances. Robin Williams continues in stride as one who has to-date remained the most touching, heart-wrenching, awe-inspiring comedians with inarguable acting talent (he still remains my most favorite performer on the film screen)。

死亡诗社影评2007-06-14 13:29 | (分类:默认分类)学期末写英语书评,平时没怎么读原著,就胡诌了一篇影评,自我感觉还可以,最后分数也不错,关于一部非常好看的电影<<死亡诗社>>.Dead Poets Society ReviewAt the time of my writing , the yearly College Entrance Examination is just around the corner . Senior 3 students are like arrows in a bow , ready to confront with this big turning point in their life . Glory or disgrace , all is determined in this battle . As an ex-middle-school student , I can still remember the days vividly even if nearly one year has passed . Eating without appetite , sleeping with the pillow constantly changing sides , these are just the epitome of life at that moment . It’s in this sentimental mood that I came across Dead Poets Society . Similar experience has struck an accord in me , leaving me in deep thought long after it .In 1959 , the Welton Academy is just a somewhat old-fashioned but well-respected prepare school where education is understood to be a rigorous academic training to explicitly traditional ideal . The “four pillars” of Welton ----- tradition , honor , discipline , excellence ------ are like nails , shackles ,cages , prohibiting any free thought , crucifying students on fixed paths , separating them from the colorful outside . Though highly successful in terms of the number of students admitted to Ivy League Universities , Welton is a suffocating hell .Change come when a teacher named Keating brings new air to class . He leads the students to explore the idea of “Carpe Diem”(seize the day) and helps them to stretch their minds , exercise their rights to defiant acts of love for life and poetry , rebutting society . At the self-introduction , he cites the famous verse from Walt Whitman -----Oh Captain , my Captain----which is in honor of Abraham Lincoln . This vaguely implies that Keating would have the same fate as Lincoln . Keating is dismissed at the end just as Lincoln was shot dead after the Civil War . But both have enduring impacts on history and will remembered forever , one in politics , the other in education .Mr. Keating introduces the students to the grand hall of poetry , analyzing that the true meaning of poetry lies not in its cuteness but ins elements which we are alive for , such as beauty , romance and love . Quoting from Whitman , “Oh me ,oh life of the questions of thes e recurring ,of the endless trains of the faithless , of cities filled with the foolish ,what amid these . Oh me , oh life? ” , he points out that the answer is “You are here ” and you may contribute a verse to the powerful play of life . He suggests the idea of Dead Poets Society , in which all members read and write poets , to let poetry “ drip from our tongues like honey ” . As Thoreau writes,I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately ,To live deep and suck all the marrow out of life .To put to rout all that was not life,Not to , until I had come to die,Discover that I had not lived.Picture this , in a shallow cave ,several people are circling around a bonfire . Chilly winds whirl outside , but inside warmth fills the souls . Each is reading poetry , bringing them to Shakespeare , Shelley , Wordsworth , Whitman , all masters of words . They seem to have passed the endless passage of history . The world is spinning . The sun rises and sets . The moon waxes and wanes . The tide goes up and down . But they remain still in this rigorous eddy . Spirits soar high into the heaven and God is thus created . What a bewildering scene .Keating keeps emphasizing a central tenet of his philosophy : determined individualism and non-conformity . On one occasion , he brings the whole class outside and makes them walk around the yard . As the students walk , they more and more adjust their steps to those of others . And in a short time , the leisurely walk has turned into a strident march . Keating then begins to clap his hands and the students all adjust to the rhythm of the clapping . After that Keating stops the exercise and begins to explain .What this demonstrates is that how difficult it’s for us to listen to our own voice and maintain our own beliefs in the presence of others . Lads , there is a great need in all of us to be accepted . However , the need can be like a nasty current , whisking us away unless we are determined and strong swimmers .What a simple exercise . What a profound a lesson . Action speaks louder than words . In the absence of repeated oral teaching , truth slowly unveils its mystical mask . It’s this lively method of teaching that captures the students’ hearts , bringing them to a new world , eyes opened , horizon widened and spirits renewed .Good times seldom last . One of its members ,Neil , has to confront with his authoritarian father head-on . He is an active student ,but has a strict father who tolerates no deviation from the plan he has laid our for his son . Out of his love for acting , Neil goes to the theatre in spite of the opposition of his father . That play has become his swan-song . At the end of the play , he crosses his arms and thanks everyone , eyes filled with uncertainty and sorrow .Not surprisingly , his father is extremely furious about him and makes him cease his study at Welton . That night, with the twig on his head, he uses a gun to terminate his young life.It’s a gloomy and overcast morning when Neil’s friends get the news about his d eath. All are sobbing, clear enough that Dead Poets Society is over, Mr. Keating is over. But Keating’s efforts are not in vain. At his departure, all the students stand on their desks----the way Keating taught them to look at things from a different view----and call him “Oh Captain, my Captain”. At Whitman’s time, Lincoln was considered heterodox, just as Keating was during his life. But the earth is going around and society is moving advance. History has justified them. Thanks to these brave warriors, it’s them who make our life today convenient.Dead Poets Society is like a roller coaster that takes you on an exciting route and leaves you gripping your seat, enjoying life and thinking about “Carpe Diem”. There are some scenes which are very depressing, but they are all artful and teach you appreciation of those brave members of society who dare to stand up for their beliefs and rights to wrestling around with life. Time will fade colors and topple statues, but it’s certainly of no account with classics li ke Dead Poets Society.。

The Conflict of the Dead Poets SocietyWhen we talk about the conflict, the first word comes into my mind is “controversy”. There exist a fight between two sides, no matter mentally or in physically. We cannot judge which side is absolutely right, but we could choose a better one. In this movie—the Dead Poets Society, the main conflicts are between the between the reality and dream, and between the rebellion and obedience.When I was at the age of 17, I was in senior Grade three. Time was spent in studying and endless works. I never put my dreams into consideration. What I could do was to continue my endless homework and to except to go to a good university.I asked myself after finishing this movie what If I met a teacher like Mr. Keating when I was 17, a teacher who can break the traditional teaching method and tell students to pursue the real life, some coward person is less likely to step ahead at the expense of giving up the chance of attending a college, like me, or Carmon in the movie, while some brave people can do, like Neil, Charles and Knox.Bold men like them are more likely to experience a more fantastic life. Neil could take a risk of going to the audition and finally gets the opportunity of playing a part in the drama. Charles, is a total rebel. He hides naked woman’s picture and then writes poems on the back, invites girls to the secret cave and read classical romantic poems to them, publishing a petition requiring girl into thishigh school in the name of “the dead poets society”. What his conduct is obviously against the principle of the school—tradition, honor, discipline and excellence. And Knox, who falls in love with a beautiful girl named Chris who has had a boyfriend already, nerves to expression his affection to her and won her heart.Nevertheless, craven person like Carmon, who is afraid of ripping out of the poets books, who also attend to the dead poets society, who gives the secret information to school after Neil’s death, who hovers between the rebellion and obedience and finally chooses to obey the group, may never get the real things he want. And be happy. Perhaps one day he will sit in the classroom of ivy league university, recalling his happy day spent with a group of young boys who could catch their dreams bravely, but he will never be one of the group anyone, for he has chosen to be obedient to the reality.That is the first conflict—the rebellion and obedience.Additionally, the second conflict is between reality and the dream.While the students look about as stirred up as a cesspool, it is Mr. Keating who arouses their dreams in the deep of their hearts. When He whispers to the students “carpe diem” which means to seize the time and make lives extraordinary. Numb students start to wake up and to be conscious of the real meaning in life. Everyone start to pursue their life meaning instead of spending their entire time in studying.Neil dreams to be an actor, Todd dreams to a real poet, Knox dreams to winChris’s heart, Charlie dreams to get freedom, and Carmon never talks about his dream. But they all face the same reality—going to college and finding a good job. That is what teacher and parents want to see.If dream is confronted with reality, someone will choose to stick to their dreams and even show his determination by suicide, like Neil, while someone choose to turn back quickly and flee away, like Carmon. People who stick to dreams may die or be successful. People who flee away will never achieve his dream, cause at the beginning of his rode to dream he is defeated by reality.What can we do, when dream is confronted with reality, is to tighten your tooth and hold on. You should never choose to give up your lives, because living in the world is the where the hope is. You may say I am a dreamer, but I am not the only one. You should believe that on the way to dreams, you are not alone. Phrase:Choke on the bone胡来Wipe that smirk off your face 别得意Monastic oath 修行Be in it up to one’s eyes 某人也脱不了干系Suck out all the marrow of life吸取生命的精髓。

The Review of Dead Poets SocietyAnother tragedy. It reminds me the proffessor’s son in Three Idiots who also committed suicide because his father had put too much pressure on him about doing Engineering. However, his dream of studying Literature, being a writer was deprived so violently. He could never do what his heart is in. That was the reason why he chose death, just as Neil in the Dead Poets Society. Like Pia, the professor’s daughter, accused acutely,“It wasn’t suicide...It was murder.” It was not the only one tragedy, it was one of many tragedies. It made me sting. The education system must has some kind of problems all over the world. Not the worst, only worse.To some extent, every parent is autocratical like a tyrant. They always said,“Until...you do as I tell you.”And then they pretend to be gracious,“You need anything, you let us know.”But they would never give what we need. It is freedom. We need to have our own choice, no matter it is good or not in the future. We chose it, and we would be responsible to it. The children have their own lives. We are not the substitute to achieve their dreams that they havn’t achieved or didn’t have chance to make it come true. I really hate that Neil’s father said,“You know how much this means to your mother, don’t you?” Even if this means a lot to “My Mother”, so what? I only know it means nothing to “Me”. Like Henry David Thoreau said,“I went to the woods because Iwanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.” Only do we do what we really want to, then we live, or we live as we have died. However, it is too hard to do as what we want. Our parents always think what they choose for us is the best for us. We are like slaves to them.Here comes a story about me. It was the time when I had to fill in the university application. There was a big quarrel among our families. I’d never sticked to my opinion like that. I insisted to go to a university out of Guangdong Province. I was thinking if I was able to go to university abroad, I would go without hestitation. What the only thing I wanted then was fleeing away from my parents, then my freedom wouldn’t be confined. I’d been confined in my entire life. I wouldn’t want to be in the rest of my life. That was the only chance for me to hear my own inner voice with great clearness. I didn’t want to lose it. But no one was on my side. They threatened me by the difficulty of life I would face outside Guangdong, urged me to change my choice. They even asked my cousin to persuade me to change my choice. I’d never lived what I wanted before then. And did it mean I had to live as they told me later? I’d never lived what my heart was in. And did it mean I’d never had the chance before I die? I really didn’t know how hard it would be living outside Guangdong Province. I’d never been out of Guangdong. I’d longed for the outsideworld since I had memories. I’d done a not bad job in Gaokao. But at that time of our quarrels, I didn’t feel happy at all. It liked a cold war between me and my parents. Neither did my parents want to yield, nor did I. However, as you can see, I’m now in South China Normal University. My parents won and I failed, the battle. It doesn’t mean I don’t like it. I just kind of regretting that I couldn’t go outside as if I was confined again in a further distance. And it doesn’t mean I don’t miss my families. I miss them, of course. But as far as I am concerned, we should be totally independent after being an adult. We should be responsible to what we do at any time. That’s what an adult do. Not like I’m still their little girl. I’m their daughter, but I already have my life long time ago. They really shouldn’t interfere my life. I could consider their advises, but I don’t promise I would do whatever they like. I like to have my own choice, and I have to have my own choice whatever in the rest of my life.At last, I would like to quote sentences to end my reviews. “Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I’ll show you a happy man. But only in their dreams can men be truly free. There was always thus, and always thus will be.”Tina2014.6.1.。

My Review on Dead Poets SocietyHaving seen this movie, I have learned a lot. First, some encouraging sentences were said by the teacher,Keating, for example,Carpe diem, seize the day, boys, make your lives extraordinary. Carpe diem is from Latin, which means seize the day. The reason why he said it was to encourage his beloved students to live a good and meaningful life for the tome being. Keating was the teacher who was absolutely different from the others in Welton Academy, the “best prep school in America”. In my eyes, he was just like the light lightening the road of his students to their future. At the same time, Keating’s passion for poetry inspired some of his students to set up a secre t club. He said:“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering —these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love — these are what we stay alive for.”What is more, Keating brought a new idea where students can be accepted as an individuals. He asked students to march differently, just according their own willing, and he opened the boys’ to their numb acceptance of conformity , and get them think about the endless possibilities in the later life. And there was a scene in the movie, Todd was a shy boy, and he could not demonstrate himself in the class. With his encouragement, Todd became less frightened and more at ease expressing himself in front of his classmates. And meanwhile, he gradually spoke out immediately what he has in his mind without being afraid of becoming others’ laughing stock. It was not only Todd’s success, but also was Keating’s.Second impressed a lot was Todd’s story. His parents sent him a study board as the birthday gift, the same birthday gift as last year. His parents wanted to use the gift to remind him that he should always study hard to improve himself and not put up with their expectations. They never know Todd did not like the gift at all, which drove himin a depression because he thought his parents never cared about him. He was terribly burdened by his parents’ expectations. And with the Neil’s encouragement, he threw the study board, which indicated that he would get rid of those so-called burden and truly be himself.In the end, what touched me most was the Neil’s death. Neil was mad at acting because he thought it could allow him to express himself openly and sincerely , to experience a kind of different life. While his father did not allow him to take acting as a career. And later, he felt he totally lost the control of his own life. He was forced to leave Welton and to give up his beloved acting career. And he had to take up one course he did not show interest in. And, he committed suicide. Was his father to be blame? Was the academy to be blame? May be yes, may be no.All in all , we should find our own way. Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.。