死亡诗社英文影评

死亡诗社英文影评 Dead Poets Society (When I saw one of the pupils choose death to put an end to the conflict between his dream and the reality which is attached by his father. It’s a heart-attack for me. I can feel his deep sorry in his inner world. We are always struggling, especially when your dream does not be in line with the reality. ) The pupils at a boys’ school are inspired by their idiosyncratic English teacher. Robin Williams and Ethan Hawke star Peter Weir was on pretty shaky ground when he made Dead Poets Society. Coming on the back of his unsuccessful adaptation of Paul Theroux’s . The Mosquito Coast, the success or otherwise of Weir’s school drama spelt the difference between continued employment in America for the director or a spot on the next boat back to Australia. That Dead Poets Society was a huge hit with both audiences and critics had only so much to do with Tom Schulman’s Oscar-winning screenplay. The tale of a band of public schoolboys (including Robert Sean Leonard’s would-be actor, Josh Charles Lothario, and Ethan Hawke’s shy new boy) who have their horizons broadened by John Keating, an English teacher (Williams), Dead Poets Society excels in its approach to the material. Williams over-playing has ruined many a movie, but here his too-much style suits a man who sees that, for these over-schooled kids, the imagination represents an undiscovered country. The boys also manage to put real meat on the bones of their clichéd characters. Hawke, in particular, brings both humor and real vulnerability to his young outsider Todd. He’s certainly a lot better than Leonard who seems to have confused playing a boy with stage ambitions with a need to ladle theatricality upon his own performance. Of course, Dead Poets Society is a tad overwrought at times - the ending, in particular, seems to alienate as many people as it moves. Nevertheless, Weir"s film wonderfully evokes the magic of someone opening the doors of a new world. It’s also a devastating reminder of the agony that follows when those doors are slammed shut. Course: Oral English Teacher: Teacher Meng Student : Zhangbin Number: 09083812