*clap**clap* Film Review
For this assignment, I watched Dead Poets Society. The Dead Poets Society is a movie about an English class in a catholic school in which the teachers and headmaster were extremely controlling and strict. This English teacher had gone to that school before them and knew how annoying it was to attend that school and abide by all of the extremely strict rules. Most of the class bands together to recreate the Dead Poets Society, a group of people that met every night against school rules to read and create poetry.
The story question for Dead Poets Society is “Is Mr. Keating doing the right thing by letting the kids basically be free and wandering from the standard curriculum. The author took a dramatic approach to presenting the watchers with the story. I believe this because all it is is an exaggeration of the pressures of high school and life in general. There is a deeper meaning to this movie than to just entertain. This movie shows the troubles of being surrounded by constant control and strict rules. One of the main characters, Neil Perry, had a very large dream of being an actor, but his controlling father wouldn’t let him and wanted him to go into a field that is actually successful, the medical field.
This movie deserves many rewards due to its resonation with people of all ages, teaching parents what happens if they are too controlling over their children and teaching children that this happens to almost every kid. The movie did follow the Freytag Pyramid Story Structure. This movie follows the Institutionalized Blake Snyder genre because Mr. Keating is differing from the normal curriculum, inspiring the kids to differ from society and take chances. The characters are round and dynamic, being complex like normal humans and also changing throughout the movie.
Let’s talk about story now. I believe that the most important aspect of an author’s focus is focus on plot. This is because if you don’t have a certain plot-line, you don’t have a story. Therefore, there is no reason for the author to write.I also believe that the most important character conflicts are character vs. character, character vs. self, and character vs. society. This is because character vs. character teaches people to stand up for themselves, character vs. self teaches people about dealing with their personal conflicts and that they aren’t the only ones that have them, and character vs. society creates a passion to question the superiors and society when you don’t agree.
-Edward Velky 2/24/2019
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