The movie The Dead Poet's Society was not quite what I expected. I came into the movie looking for allusions and witty banter and the occasional butterfly of personal accomplishment. I found all of those. However, I also expected to see certain storybook figures, such as the new, perfect teacher who opens the student's minds and hearts to the world around them and their inner mind. Instead, I received Mr. Keating, a teacher with a deadly flaw: his ambition to get the students to think for themselves. While this is sensationally important, he failed to see the dangers of unrestrained thinking.
Now I'm no foe to unrestrained thinking, but their are differences between acting boldly and acting rashly. Mr. Keating's lack of restraint aggravated me.
However, for the most part, the movie is sensational. All should watch this movie, if only because I play a huge part in the plot.
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Didn't Keating try to teach them to have restraint after the Charlie Dalton incident with the phone call from God?
Most movies about teachers follow a conventional pattern: inspirational teacher rescues kids from the inner city, but this was a prep school version of that story.
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