dead poets
Have watched the Dead Poet's Society for the fiftieth billion time, but last night only singled out my favourite parts to review, i.e. the moment when the then extremely shy and cute Ethan Hawk makes a barbaric yawp and creates a poem about the big hairy mad man, the time when the boys take turns kicking the football and reading out quotes, and definitely the last scene when Todd (once again led by the gorgeous Hawk) stands on his desk and says, "Oh captain, my captain", followed by the other young and fearless. I was basically moved to tears the first time I saw the film, am still deeply touched, but a literature teacher who only embraces the Romantics and ignores the Realists somehow is not quite right.
"Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, And I'll show you a happy man".
Tennyson