Sociedade dos Poetas Mortos (Dead Poets Society): summary and analysis
Society of two Deadly Poets (Dead Poets Society), directed by Peter Weir, was one of the two most remarkable films in North American cinema from the nineties. The work is severely critical of the traditional ensino system.
In terms of the public, or longa-metragem was one of the 10 major bilheterias of 1990 in the United States and one of the five major internationals.
In terms of criticism, Society of two Deadly Poets snatched or Oscar de Melhor Roteiro Original.
Film summary
Society of two Deadly Poets It goes to the United States, not in 1959, a traditional ensino institution called Welton Academy. Or film and told through a linear chronological order.
A schola de ensino medio com cem anos de historia tem as a didactic ideal or ensino rigid and inflexible as or what is seen in the military universe. Ensino philosophy is based on four pillars: tradition, honor, discipline and excellence. Or even two students show this reality: they are full of brasões and formalities.
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A chegada do professor Keating
John Keating (Robin Williams) was a former student of the Welton Academy and now returns to the Ensino Institution to serve as a teacher.
Among your first teachings for a group of students is the following sentence:
"Carpe Diem. Aproveitem o day, meninos. Façam their extraordinary lives "
In his first classroom, John (Robin Williams) teaches some years or a little concept that will transform two young people's lives. Latin phrase Carpe Diem, by sinal, I enter for a history of cinema ficou among the 100 more phrases quoted in longas-metragens according to the American Film Institute.
Little years, or professor John (Robin Williams), through the reading of poetry and classics of literature, incute us to beauty gives life. John teaches us to perceberem or world from different perspectives.
Uma nova ensino metology
O teacher has a rather particular teaching method in the box. During a day of their classrooms, or exercise for the composition of free, spontaneous poems, which try to give life to the universe of each one.
For another opportunity, or a teacher, students can climb to the top of the table to learn how to live life from a new angle. Few years of students have become more and more interested in the classrooms and in the methodology of the literature teacher.
A Society of two Deadly Poets
One of two students, Neil Perry (Robert Sean), fascinated as Keating's work (Robin Williams), goes to try to find the new year or now a professor. To his surprise of him, he found no record of one of the entries in Sociedade dos Poetas Mortos.
When pressing hairs on some apos to uncovered the yearbook, or professor tells about how the society works (where and when costumavam will meet, as interagiam ...). Some of you are super curious about how to reveal and resolve to reproduce what happened years ago visiting the same places.
At Neil's decision
Excited about his new secret project, Neil (Robert Sean) resolves to get stuck. However, his rigorous and curtailing upbringing seems to be an impediment for him to feel that it is his vocation. O garoto é especially repressed pai hair, a little subject linha hard and castrating. Or Neil's (Robert Sean) fate ends up being tragic, he decides to end his own life.
How somebody could be held responsible for the tragic fate of Neil (Robert Sean), or director resolves to punish or professor Keating (Robin Williams) demitting-o and dissolving Sociedade dos Poetas Mortos.
Or final traffic
At the final dinner, however, it proves that nem same demissão will be able to turn off the experiences experienced by those adolescents.
When the teacher goes to the classroom to look for such things, not armário and received warmly, it is clear that the marks left will remain naqueles that he estimated.
Analysis and historical context of the film
Do not film Society of two Deadly Poets We attend as a cenário a school that seems more like a quartel or seminar, an atmosphere full of regras, super dated and conservative.
As families that inscribe it, we are seeking an institution of excellence that can provide a guaranteed academic and professional future.
From the first dinners of the film we perceive how some aspects of life and youth are timeless and eternal, and we experience assisting not longa-metragem the joys and the typical anguish of adolescence.
A timeless film
Despite telling a story that was not the end of two fifties and was filmed for the last decade of the eighties, the problems presented remain profoundly atuais.
As a new professor of literature, let us see how naquele has hidden a castrating environment a necessity to create new worlds, stimulating to descoberta and not only transmitting pure content and Lasted.
Stimulating or potential two students
Giving iron for exploration to own inquiries, or Professor Keating (Robin Williams) seeks insert somebody in the world at the same time that shows how they are fermented to transform or own world. It is about a simultaneously pedagogical and political action.
The professor said that he was afraid to motivate those young people raised to be limited and affirms that He is serving life in no tradition, as he wanted to create a didactic promoted by the Academy Welton.
Professor Keating and his innovative posture
O Professor Keating (Robin Williams) is the only airtight environment capable of giving voice to what some of us say and think.
From his first classrooms, Keating teaches the concept of finitude and encourages students to become aware that there is a fim, suggesting that live every moment intensely.
A Carpe diem philosophy
"Carpe diem" is the greatest teacher's teaching that permeates everything or film. Ou seja, faça de hoje on an extraordinary day I attached because I can not have amanhã. The teacher tries to lead to rebellion against young people who are repressed, drawing on the energy of confrontation from the youth to create a new space and more freedom.
This liberation ends up causing irreversible consequences and we witness a history of survival and resistance so much so that we say I respect the teacher for how many years of our own.
An international panorama
Although the film was released in 1990, a history and told in a North American environment two years 1959. It is worth recalling the historical context where the men of the Welton Academy lived immersed.
The year 1959 was internationally troubled: Fidel Castro managed to dismiss the editor Fulgencio Batista no day 1 of janeiro, os russos mandaram duas probes for lua and we lived or boom of war do Vietnam.
I do not field two direct North American civilians, Martin Luther King (who would receive or Nobel Peace Prize) will come to be outed in defense of the black movement.
The period in which the film was released, for its time (or the beginning of the nineties), was also quite interesting from a political point of view. There are two specific events to be highlighted: the remainder of the Berlim wall (and the German reunification) and the protest at the Praça da Paz Celestial (a strong demonstration against the Chinese regime).
As it is possible to note, the film release period was marked by dating forces from the company that entered into conflict with opening forces. Nesse sense or longa metragem is in perfect harmony as its historical tempo, transmitting for a controlled environment - at school - concerns that were felt in the age group.
The production racks
A story was inspired by not professor Samuel Pickering in an experience as some of his students from a particular school who were stimulated from a new pedagogical orientation. The film was internally recorded in a private school in St. Andrews (Delaware, United States).
O roteirist Tom Schaulman was two students of Professor Samuel at Montgomery Bell Academy (Nashville, Tennessee). Or professor of literature ended up later becoming a professor at the University of Connecticut.
Uma curiosity: Society of two Deadly Poets foi o first roteiro de longa metragem assassinated by Tom Schulman. Até there was only two productions for television and a short metragem.
Personagens principais do film
John Keating (Robin Williams)
Former Welton Academy student returning to serve as professor. Gives literature classrooms based on a new pedagogical ideal, stimulating students to be more creative, idealistic and independent.
O personagem symbolizes the possibility of experimenting or new, of promoting openness in an environment as castrating as a school.
Nolan (Norman Lioyd)
He is the proud director of the Welton Academy. On the death of Neil Perry he is forced to take an attitude and ends up unjustly dismissing Professor Keating.
Nolan represents conservative and repressive values, a serious caricature of a traditional and ancient education.
Neil Perry (Robert Sean)
A couple more excited about Professor John Keating's classrooms. He is going to procure the yearbook where the teacher's record is found and discovers the existence of the Sociedade dos Poetas Mortos. O garoto has a very repressive breeding, especially due to the rigidity of the country.
Neil represents youth with all its natural concerns - whether I wish to experiment or new, to be liberated, not to obey the authorities given to them.
You received awards
Society of two Deadly Poets Levou for home or Oscar by Melhor Roteiro Original e venceu or César by Melhor Filme Estrangeiro.
O longa was also indicated as an Oscar for Melhor Filme, Melhor Director and Melhor Ator.
No Globo de Ouro também ouve indicação for Melhor Filme, Melhor Director, Melhor Ator and Melhor Roteiro.
Data sheet
| Original title | Dead Poets Society |
| Launching | February 28, 1990 |
| Orçamento | $16.400.000,00 |
| Director | Peter weir |
| Roteirist | Tom schulman |
| Gender | Dramatic comedy |
| Duration | 2h 20m |
| Main cast | Robin Williams, Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard |
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