Dead Poets Society [Blu-ray] Reviews

The movies have offered up a prominent number of legendary school teachers. From Mr. Chips to Miss Dove, Miss Jean Brodie, and Sylvia Barrett (Up the Down Staircase), dedicated educators can sometimes be the most memorable of movie characters. To this list can be added John Keating from Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society, another in the line of special people whose indefinable relationships between themselves and their students tend to make for unforgettable film experiences. Dead Poets Society takes a somewhat different path from other teacher-student movies; it focuses much more on the students under the teacher’s care than it does on the instructor himself. In the case of Dead Poets Society, that’s a shame since the teacher’s story seems to be infinitely fresher and more filled with wonder than those of his charges.

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