"Dead Poets Society" to Wake Society

Dead Poets Society is a film for all of us with dreams. It holds such perfection in every aspect of it, may it be representing poetry, symbolism, acting, casting, or direction. Many movies fancifully stimulate us to run after our dreams once in a while. Dead Poets Society takes us through the journey of stages one would face if he or she chooses to go after their dream. In this world where every other person is telling you what you should do with your life, it is arduous to dream and work for that only. Well, nothing comes easy when it comes to living a life, and if we also have Mr. Keating in our lives, who knows if it is possible to do what you are passionate about? The passion we have for something is unrealistic in everyone's eyes but makes total sense to you. This movie tells us how this so-called real world stops us from being romantic toward our dreams.

It takes you into the world of teenagers in one of the best high schools in the United States whose life's next 10 years are mapped by their parents, and teachers. One day Mr. Keating enters as an English teacher to change their lives, one thing I find fascinating about this movie is the change Mr. Keating brings into their life is tragic or fortunate and has countless different and subjective perceptions. Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Knox Overstreet, and Cameron all of them from the boys' group will remind you of your teenage gang. In the start, they are told to follow four pillars of their honored Welton education: tradition, honour, excellence, and discipline. Some of us would relate to it if we have been to such educational institutions and some of us would relate to it as some families have these four pillars when it comes to upbringing. We all felt suffocated with that once in a while or some of us liked the forced discipline.

Mr. Keating comes into their life with his extraordinary, charming personality. This is exactly where the film makes you crave to have such one English teacher in life and I started daydreaming about it irrationally. The teacher who spreads knowledge in his own fascinating ways. We are often doing things the way people would appreciate. Unknowingly every second thing we do is told to us by the world's invisible rulebook which some people claim to be the real rules. We all can think of no of the things we did when it had emerged from our own thought,

and we will realize they are lesser. Mr. Keating teaches this valuable thing that the idea of education is to ' Think for yourself'. In the courtyard where all the boys find their own walk, their own way of striding pacing in any direction we all get inspired in a unique way that other inspirational movies do in a cliche way. But as you move forward in the movie you see Mr. Nolan's aspect of ' at this age discipline is a must ' and find yourself in a dilemma.

Dead Poets Society is a classic emotional journey about school, first love, poetry, teaching but most beautifully about DEATH.

''Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a flying.

And this same flower that smiles today

Tomorrow will be dying''.

These lines hit you hard when you see the first day of Mr. Keating's lecture and their happy, lightening faces as rosebuds inspired to seize the day.

Then there is the scene after Neil is gone and Mr. Keating reading that poem again with tears in his eyes and Todd with all the boys in immense pain and those last two lines of the same flower smiling and dying makes sense to you.

We all know several Neil's from our friend circles who are alive doing things they never wanted to do. Watching this film one might wonder about the difference between Neil's death and our friends who care about living dead and not living enough as these lines say,

I went into the woods because,

I wanted 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 came to die, discover that I had not lived. And suddenly we realize how tragic life and death both are.

The parental pressure portrayed in the movie is worth overthinking about who is right or wrong. I came across a modern form of parental pressure recently when I talked to my friend

who is in her late thirties. She decides to make her daughter a dancer, actor, and everything that she wasn't allowed to do because of her last-generation parents. One thought haunted me as I asked her what if she doesn't like acting but science unlike you because that's a possibility in the future. She was firm on the decision to admit her daughter to the dance class even though she didn't like it at first she would like eventually my friend said. I think each generation creates different forms of parental pressure and thinks we are better parents than our own. We should reflect on our children's decisions we make.

Dead poets society is different in everyone's eyes. I think people of every age children, adults, and people of different religions, races, and cultures have watched the movie. Everyone thinks of one movie differently from their place. Teenager has excitement, happiness, and new perception about life while adults get nostalgic about their unfulfilled passions, their version of Mr. Keating they had, first poem they wrote for school love. People in mid 40s or 50s realize maybe they should allow their children to think for themselves. Parents who have been in Neil's parents' shoes and lost their children because of educational choices might keep regretting their mistakes. I feel we all should watch this movie once in a lifetime and decide our winner in the fight of idealism and romanticism.

One thing stays the same for everyone who is still breathing from Mr. Keating's advice:

Carpe diem.

Seize the day my friend.