'Dead Poets Society' is one of the finest movies you'll ever watch. An inspiring, tear-jerky and moving story told in the most strict manner. Filmmaker Peter Weir knows he's a legend, he knows his "Type" of Cinema touches a chord. He has achieved so much.
'Dead Poets Society' is the story of every human being. Free-Will, Confidence, Love and Hope... isn't this all we heed for? I sure do, and that's the reason why I weeped in my seat while watching this acclaimed 1989 film. It's a film that brings back your good-old Study Years in you, those moments, aha, life was "WOW" then. Carpe diem, indeed!
Peter Weir makes astonishing cinema in 'Dead Poets Society'. Sure, 'The Truman Show' remains as his and cinema's finest film to date. But, let's not forget this came way before 'The Truman Show'. Weir, you are simply an inspiration! The Cinematography is wonderful, so is the editing.
Robin Williams delivers a very fine performance. But the show-stealer in here is, Robert Sean Leonard. As a youngster named as Neil Perry, he pitches in an incredible performance from start to end.
On the whole, 'Dead Poets Society' has everything working on it's advantage.
He was their inspiration. He made their lives extraordinary. There's so much good about this movie. The first time I saw it I watched it solely for plot and I loved it. Now I've seen it again and watched Peter Weir's filming and timing which is also great. Robin Williams is a terrific actor when he's serious. He proved it in Good Will Hunting but he proved it first here. If you liked that movie and your liking it had something to do with Williams than you will like this one. The plot is about a number of students who are taught by Williams about life. They are taught how to enjoy themselves. This ends up causing great controversy among the heads of the school. The students are terrific and even the dialogue is great. This is a movie that I can't imagine anyone not liking. It is good in every way. There are certain films 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 films. I saw the movie back when I was in High School. I had a teacher who told us that we really needed to watch it; in fact, it was our "homework" for the day. We didn't need to bring back a report, or talk about it in class. All he asked from us was to watch it, make up our own mind about it, and that was it. As you can imagine, many friends of mine didn't watch it at all; I did. And yes, I feel I changed a bit from there on. Back when you are young, you never really stop to think what in the world you are doing with your life. You simply live for the day, hope your grades will be enough to pass, and that's it. Long term thinking involves maybe flirting with a girl. Nothing more. What this film showed me was that we have the responsability and the joy of being alive in this planet. That we are dust, and we will go back to it, so we have precious little time to make a difference. That we have a moral obligation to "seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary" (my favorite quote in all movie history). That the world, basically is ours. That the only limitations are within ourselves, and that we owe it to us to fight, to rebel against conformity, to change what we hate and keep what we love. That living in this world is a beautiful responsability, and that only cowards dare not to change it for the better. The fact that the cast was basically my age, and was passing through the same dilemmas and situations I was facing made it all so much more powerful. So here I sit, 12 years from that day. I still don't think I have seized the day completely. But I keep on trying; I always will. I wonder how many people were transformed by this gem of a movie; I hope many. 10 out of 10. A definitive masterpiece. 心灵应当释放——《死亡诗社》 每个人都有自己的学生时代，每个人都有自己的辉煌时刻，谁来带给我们青春的激情，谁来带领我们开始辉煌的起点？是伯乐。 影片开场的蜡烛犹如证明了罗宾.威廉斯的行动：燃烧着自己为了青年得其生命精髓。在老师面前他还带了几分客套，但在学生面前他是如此的实在与亲近。一切只因为真理。 片中的学生们虽然众多，但个个都是个性鲜明，印象深刻。有的软弱，有的顽皮有的叛逆——这些面孔就是年轻时的我们。一所历史悠久、升学率较高的学校对于大人来说，称得上是孩子的天堂。但再听听孩子的看法：对于他们来说私下里称之为地狱罢了。 大人想把孩子们打造成自己，适应于这残酷的社会，可谁来为我们的激情负责？谁来为我们的青春买单？如果青春只有所谓的成绩好那是和年龄不吻合的。只有激情、叛逆、个性、奋发，都存在的生命才成其为生命，校园才成其为校园！ 这个世界有两种人：一种人让社会来打造自己，一种人是自己打造社会。基廷老师的出现就是倡导后面一种方法，他打破了所有的教学模式，Carpe Diem (【拉】抓住今天,及时行乐(=seize the day))。这个词说通俗一点就是抓住时间做最好的自己。他将这条道理一直贯彻给他的学生。当学生问起他什么是DeadPoetsSociety他毫无保留的将自己的青春经历传给了他的学生，他不再年轻。可他希望真理可以传承。学生们找到了哪个地方，对于他们来说这不是山洞，是精神的家园。一个山洞可能简陋，但他们的心确实比这潮湿的山洞温暖、丰富。这其实就是俱乐部的前身吧。 你们可以封闭我们的白天，但你们不能封闭我们的黑夜！在那里孩子们做自己想做的任何一件事，对于学校来说这是不对的，错误的，可这不就是文艺复兴吗？13世纪打破传统就是这幅情景呀！革命应该是美丽的。 但革命也是流血的，当学校发现孩子们的事情时，青春的弊端也暴露无疑：有告密的，有胆小的。我不想去对这些学生有任何的评价，每个人都有自己的选择，在那种年龄阶段。你还无法去对他们的人格做分析。我只记得那句：Captain!MyCaptain!。你可以打倒我们的身体，但你永远无法打倒我们的灵魂。影片最后的哪个高潮让我得到了强烈的共鸣。那时，孩子们的青春已不再平凡。理想的种子已根深蒂固。 人生最难是选择。每个人经历过片中尼尔的处境。自己的理想和现实的无情相碰撞。是向现实妥协，还是放飞自己的理想？当然他的方法让我们应该慎重，生命如此灿烂，确实哪容得为别人而活。尼尔之死是对梦想追逐的最高形式。那么这到底是对还是错，我无法去正确的判断，我只知道船长告诉我们：要做生命的主人，而不是生命的奴隶。为了融入社会我们是必须丢失一些浪漫，但还是希望有些东西能够在我的骨子里苟延残存。如果一个人在该冲动的年代冲动不起来，那么到头来也许只剩下“可怜白发生”。是，现实和理想永远有差距。但又如何？医药，法律，商业，工程是维生的必须条件。但是诗，爱，浪漫，美这些才是我们生存之原因。 现代生活的节奏，让我们不得不审视自己为何活着？为何我们一直在做和自己年龄不相符的事？大人们的世界如此复杂，以为学校传统的教育模式就是对我们最好的保护，但却一直缺乏着人文色彩。生命的精髓没人教给我们。就像哪个古板的校长所说：按学校的传统教学，其他方面任其发展。传统，传统！我们存在不是为了传统，而是为了创新，为了革命。 生命是什么？在电影里，生命是诗，生命是音符，生命是戏剧，生命是一场演出里最为充满华彩的那个篇章。 “花开堪折直须折，莫待无花空折枝。” 我们应该从电影中借点激情面对生活，在我的学生生涯中很少遇到一个让我尊重的老师，现实没有，那么死亡诗社，我借你来面对现实，我的船长。 正是有了基廷老师的教诲，尼尔才会放开自己展现表演天赋，诺克斯终于大胆追求自己喜欢的女孩，查理才完全放开了自我，胆小的托德也通过基廷找回了勇气。我们就是剧中人，我们也应该打开自己的心结。 当你的目光炯炯地射向舞台的正前方，当音符渐止，当刹那静寂之后掌声雷动，当鲜花与喝彩涌向前台，当你的面孔中又写满一个人所应具有的自信，那一瞬间，你仿佛看见了你的理想，是这种理想鼓舞着你，引导着你，哪怕你将会走向死亡-- 这就是生命，桀骜不逊的生命。 I went to 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. 我步入丛林，因为我希望生活得有意义，我希望活得深刻，汲取生命中所有的精华， 把非生命的一切都击溃，以免让我在生命终结时，发现自己从来没有活过。 人的一生，其实只需要一课。
心灵捕手
影片，关于心灵、改变、寻觅和爱情。
主人公Will是个有极端古怪性格的天才男孩，幼年时父亲的虐待让他一直让自己压抑着，整天与书籍为伴，加上惊人的记忆力，让他了解了远比他那个年龄应该懂的多得多的东西。只有两三个在工地打工的知心朋友，而自己是在一所知名大学做清洁工。
一次他在走廊清洁地面时，顺便用自己惊人的才智瞬间解决了一位数学教授在走廊黑板上出的一道难题。那教授正为是谁解答此题而摸不着头脑，亲眼目睹了一名清洁工专心地解决另一道矩阵难题。从此教授象是找到了宝物一样，决心精心培养这么一位难得的天才。可是他也逐渐发现Will的巨大缺陷，于是带他去看了很多心理医生，可结果都是：一个个心理医生被捉弄得无可奈何。于是教授向一个自己从前的一位心理学专业的朋友求助。
罗宾·威廉姆斯饰演的这位救星角色实在是再成功也没有了。
Will在酒吧遇到了一个女孩，她是这所大学的学生，她会使他的生活发生惊人的变化。
当然，主人公还需要那位救星（就让我这么叫他吧，我忘了他的名字）的帮助才能让爱情发挥力量。
救星在初遇Will时也想其他医生一样被搞地晕头转向。但他不同，他是个哲学教授，不是心理医生。他决心要治好Will。
电影结局是如此的美好以至于美的发腻了，但我就是喜欢这样的故事结尾。
在和救星漫长的磨合与建立友谊后，主人公彻底地改变了，在认真考虑真心好友的建议后，他重新开始了生活。
这不是电影介绍，所以也就没必要具体说剧情了。我想说的是关于主题和演员的。
八九十年代的关于少年成长的电影不少，其中最优秀的应该就是《死亡诗社》Dead Poet Society，而巧合的是罗宾·威廉姆斯也在当中扮演了改变学生命运的老师的角色。
现在回到本片，《心》片中扮演Will的马特·达蒙在影片上映的97年还是个无名小生，但影片里他的表演无克挑剔。96年的《战火下的勇气》Courage Under Fire里，他为了演活一个吸毒的配角，减掉了数十磅体重，可见其敬业的精神。98年《拯救大兵雷恩》Saving Private Ryan中的雷恩同样是个非常成功的角色，也是他演的配角中我最喜欢的。他短暂但惊人的演出给整部伟大的影片锦上添花。而令他真正成名的是99年的影片《天才雷普利》The Talented Mr. Reply，在这么一部悬念加惊悚的影片里，一个有同性恋情倾向、有可怕的模仿能力、心怀巨大野心的复杂角色被马特诠释的够可以的，演技从此得到了普遍的肯定。（我看这片子的时候吓出一身汗）
本片中的主人公同样是个性格复杂的孩子，他可以把一本专业书籍在几天里背出来，（他背美国内战的一些原因的片段实在太精彩了）看到数学题就像莫扎特看到钢琴，但是从来不敢面对自己。他是幸运的，有一些正直但潦倒的朋友，还受到一个教授的青睐。不论他如何任性和自闭，始终有人在关心着他。最后，他终于在大家的关心下得到了拯救，向自己真正的希望奔去。
罗宾·威廉姆斯在影坛的地位是毋庸质疑的，尽管自己是以喜剧出名，可一点都不缺乏演技派的风范。他主演过的影片不计其数。八九十年代的关于少年成长的电影不少，其中最优秀的应该就是《死亡诗社》，而巧合的是罗宾·威廉姆斯也在当中扮演了改变学生命运的老师的角色。Oh captain,my captain.这句话我想看过《死亡诗社》的人决不会忘记，电影结局的那种微妙的悲壮色彩和浓烈的煽情令影片永载佳片史册。威廉姆斯近年来正在转型当中，如01年与阿尔·帕西诺合作的惊悚片《失眠》以及与康妮·尼尔森合作的惊悚片《一小时快照》，他在这两部片子里的角色都有精神病，暴力倾向且都有悲惨的结局。而前者中的转型更是得到了广泛的称赞。（只是那张笑脸怎么看怎么不吓人……）
罗宾·威廉姆斯演的“救星”角色是个失去妻子、生活已经没有乐趣但仍然在希望的人。他甚至从不参加校友会。他发现这么一个孩子，觉得孩子还值得拯救。和孩子的艰难交流中，他渐渐也在恢复着自我，直到完成了对Will的教育后，自己也找到了生活的目的。
评论1：
There's so much good about this movie. The first time I saw it I watched it solely for plot and I loved it. Now I've seen it again and watched Peter Weir's filming and timing which is also great. Robin Williams is a terrific actor when he's serious. He proved it in Good Will Hunting but he proved it first here. If you liked that movie and your liking it had something to do with Williams than you will like this one. The plot is about a number of students who are taught by Williams about life. They are taught how to enjoy themselves. This ends up causing great controversy among the heads of the school. The students are terrific and even the dialogue is great. This is a movie that I can't imagine anyone not liking. It is good in every way.
评论2：
There are certain films 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 films.
I saw the movie back when I was in High School. I had a teacher who told us that we really needed to watch it; in fact, it was our "homework" for the day. We didn't need to bring back a report, or talk about it in class. All he asked from us was to watch it, make up our own mind about it, and that was it. As you can imagine, many friends of mine didn't watch it at all; I did. And yes, I feel I changed a bit from there on.
Back when you are young, you never really stop to think what in the world you are doing with your life. You simply live for the day, hope your grades will be enough to pass, and that's it. Long term thinking involves maybe flirting with a girl. Nothing more. What this film showed me was that we have the responsability and the joy of being alive in this planet. That we are dust, and we will go back to it, so we have precious little time to make a difference. That we have a moral obligation to "seize the day, and make our lives extraordinary" (my favorite quote in all movie history). That the world, basically is ours. That the only limitations are within ourselves, and that we owe it to us to fight, to rebel against conformity, to change what we hate and keep what we love. That living in this world is a beautiful responsability, and that only cowards dare not to change it for the better.
The fact that the cast was basically my age, and was passing through the same dilemmas and situations I was facing made it all so much more powerful.
So here I sit, 12 years from that day. I still don't think I have seized the day completely. But I keep on trying; I always will. I wonder how many people were transformed by this gem of a movie; I hope many.
10 out of 10. A definitive masterpiece.