Review of Dead Poets Society (1989) by Richard C — 28 Aug 2012

A truly inspiration film that features possibly the best performance of Robin Williams's career (a guy who does comedy like he does who can cry the way he does in this film is clearly more than just talented) and delivers a fascinating look at the ways in which young male students are more than just youngsters whose different lives and storylines make for some compulsive viewing.

It may be safe to say that the ways one specific student goes to stand for himself (those who read will know what I mean) might be seen as relatively pointless but the fact that it has such a chilling and human effect on the rest of the film means that it can be seen as bearable but from the right choice the filmmakers should have picked.

Ultimately, this not only succeeds as a coming-of-age drama but also as the sort of film which inspires people to accept that there are better things in life than ones that are currently being done, and virtually that young people should think for themselves rather than doing what other people want them to do.

If ever there was a film that adolescents should be shown as a compulsory school viewing, this would be the film to use.