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Summary: An inspiring piece that reminds me why I teach!
Review: Without a doubt, this is one of Robin Williams' best performances. He plays John Keating, a passionate English teacher who challenges his students to not only recognize the theme of Carpe Diem (Seize the Day) in romantic literature, but also in life. As a teacher, he is what I long to be: a man who challenges his students to live life passionately, to pursue their dreams.
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Summary: very good to learn beautiful English
Review: My professor said this video is really good to learn a good English. So I want to buy this video. Of couse I watched it before. But I'd like to memorize the lines. Good for English learners.
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Summary: A movie made about 'Carpe Diem', Still interested?
Review: Of all the ideas and topics movies can be created from and they chose "Carpe Diem". (By the way, the two stars were for Mr. Williams.) The rest is history.
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Summary: The best in the world
Review: This is the most touching, moving, melting, powerful, intense and inspirational movie I have ever watched. It will continue to be one of my favourite movies of all time. (I am afraid to summarize the plot for fear that I might shatter its fragility) You have to watch this and decide for yourself.
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Summary: A simple plea...
Review: Great performances, and who cares if there is a bit of stereotyping, what with "evil headmasters" who prefer realists over romantics. There is a powerful, powerful truth in this film. So here is my simple plea: If you are a parent, and feel that you have a future planned for your son or daughter, see this movie, think about it, and better yet... DISCUSS IT WITH YOUR LOVED ONE.
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Summary: This is a story to be told again and again
Review: Damn, viewer from Washington D.C., you're more politically incorrect than I am. You attack people for showing emotion at film. Has it not sruck you as COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY IRONIC THAT THE FILM WAS ESSENTIALLY BASED ON THIS?!?!?!?!?!? So by your own account you're "one-dimensional, stodgy and unreasonable" too. There, I'm through shouting. D.P.S. is a special movie, not only because of the acting, the story, the "familiar" plots as you called them, D.C. fool. Now I ask you, name your favorite movie. I'll give you ten minutes for your brain to work this out. Ten minutes later, tell me exactly how many times you can watch your favorite movie and not be tired of it. I'll give you another ten minutes to think about this one as well. Now, this isn't my favorite film, but it is one of the most remarkable and ingenious films I've seen. And do you know what, D.C.? I can watch this film over and over and over again, learning new things each time I view it. I learn more about the film and sometimes more about myself because of this film. Have you stopped thinking yet, D.C.?
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Summary: Reallistics? Boooooooooooooh!
Review: If there is any reason for a true realist exist in literature, it must be non-fiction. If there is a world for a realist, it must be hell. The most important point in the film is to look at the world (an event, an object) in every different way. That is what a realist won't do. They will rather judge a poem just like looking at a function! One of the greatest novelist, Emile Zola, made realism (naturalism was what he got) into a type of writing style. But, do you think that Zola was a realist? A realist is not a person who will write a fiction, or compose a verse. If the one does, he (or she) must not a real realist. Imagination, and inspiration keep all of us alive. None of us will say "Today is the day I'm closer to death" when the one wake up in the morning. Passion is what we should have in our life for doing every little thing. This is what the film want us to know. The realists should get the hell out, at least, from arts, and literatures. We've tasted too much reality from our life. It's an insult to an artistic work for naming it a realistic work. 'Cause it means: the work has no taste and imagination.
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Summary: Amazing...
Review: ...amazingly stupid that is. Robin Williams has so much more potential than this. This is one of the most boring movies that I have seen in my life. I gave it two stars for the wonderful scene of 'carpe diem, sieze the day'. That was the best part in the movie. I couldn't even finish Dead Poets Society. Sorry, I'm not that patient.
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Summary: A truly inspirering film
Review: I sit here trying to find words that will describe my feelings for this movie. That's almost impossible. What I can say is that all of the emotions that it evoked from me are incredible. I sat in front of my TV watching young men and their teacher, not as actors doing a supurb job, but as extrodinary examples to all of us. We need to go out and "seize the day". Not just to make our own dreams come true, but to show everyone who is willing to watch that we all can make a difference in anything and everything we do. Emily Dickinson once said, "That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." I truly believe that with all of my heart and soul, and am going to life my life by that. In a few weeks when I go back to school I will be like those students and not condescend to the level of conformity, but rise above it and sare what John Keating has tought me. CARPE DIEM! I think this is why Hollywood makes films.
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Summary: I wanted to like this movie, but. . .
Review: good taste got in the way. OH, how I wanted to like this film. Who couldn't help but like a movie that 'romanticized' the Romantics and advised people to 'carpe diem'? I certainly couldn't, and yet the story got in my way. There's Robin Williams, a cynical Mr. Chips for the millennium, one-lining and three-pointing away. There's a whole slew of handsome young boys (oh, how handsome), taking his facile words to heart. And there's the evil headmaster. You can tell he's evil because he insists on studying the Realists instead of the Romantics. One expects horns to sprout out of his balding head and a forked tongue to protrude from between his thin lips when he snarls, "What about the REALISTS?" Are we expected to empathize with frustrated-wannabe-John-Barrymore Neal because his fascist Daddy spits on his dream of being an actor? Of course. Are we expected to tear up because of the desperate resolution Neal decides upon? I hope not. Who among its viewers (who took this movie WAY too seriously) didn't want to grab him by his shoulders, shake him and scream, "You'll be 18 in 3 months! CARPE DIEM and make your own future! Tell your bad old daddy to kiss it and then start auditioning!" No, we're left with the old "sensitive youth suffering at the hands of practical oldsters" routine. I've heard that Robin Williams is embarrassed by this film (he should be embarrassed by many of his efforts). He has good reason.
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