There are certain movies that get under your skin, never to come out.  They change your life, subtly altering your perceptions of reality, almost always for the better.

 

Dead Poets Society is one of those few movies, a truly poetry on the screen.

 

It ends with the climax where Mr. Keating was forced to leave his position at a strictly conventional  academy, Wellson, when almost all his students in the classroom climbed up the desks and stood on them as the final salute to him in the way he had taught them…

 

“From here, you can have a different perspective of the world. ”on the desk in the front of the classroom, once acclaimed the charismatic English professor, John Keating.

 

A weird guy of wit.  That was the first impression that Keating had left on his every student.  Listening to the old photos on the wall, ripping off the introductory parts of the new text books, and stepping freely on the yard—unorthodoxy, it’s the stuff his teaching methods were made of.

 

An uplifting captain of dream.  It was Captain Keating who steered his boys in the voyage of minds freedom.  Beneath the untypical pedagogy, he was helping the young get rid of the stereotyped rituals of academy.  Instead, he was inspiring the young boys to pursue individual passions and to suck out the essence of their own lives. 

 

An innocent convict of conflict.  In the movie, there were full of conflicts between the world of innovations and the realitic limitations.  Poor Keating, however, was the one struggling in the joint of the two.  His beloved boy Neil's suicide was a catastrophic shock, numbing his soul.  Trying to lead his students into the free world, but relentlessly, he was expelled by the real world.

 

The Prometheus stole the seed of fire for mankind, while he himself was convicted in the end.  However, it’s not an end of a story, but a very beginning of the whole mythology.  Keating has left though, he will always be remembered by his students.  Not only in the movie, but every viewer in reality.

 

 

Seize the day and make our lives extraodinary.

 

Yawp!

 

Follow your dreams no matter what the thresholds would come.

 

Short-lived as it might be, Yawp!  The world will hear it!