Tonight on TV there is a film to watch at least once in a lifetime. An Oscar winner for an incredibly emotional story.
Directed by Peter Weir for an essential work from 1989 with Robin Williams. In an extremely conservative New England academic institution in the 1950s, a charismatic and unconventional professor arrives, who encourages young people to face life with courage and autonomy. The film received 4 Oscar nominations winning a statuette (HERE another winning film to instantly recover)won an award at the Nastri d’Argento and a David di Donatello award, as well as 4 nominations at the Golden Globes.
In a rigidly traditionalist boarding school in 1950s New England, a charismatic and non-conformist teacher arrives, who encourages young people to follow their own beliefs in life and study, rather than conforming to the expectations of previous generations. One of the students, in conflict with his family, takes his own life. The responsibility is placed on the teacher, who is dismissed, but his students will never forget him. Tonight on TV on Channel 27, it’s on The fleeting moment.
Dead Poets Society on TV tonight: a heartbreaking dramatic work
A praise of freedom of thought, speech and expression, and a celebration of the creative force of rebellion against the rules. It is a work that underlines the importance of teaching and the role of the teacher in the education of young people and their individuality. The film develops through a series of contrasts which can be summed up in the dichotomy between closure and opening. On the one hand, there is the closure represented by the principal, by Neil’s father, by the limited spaces of the Academy, by the strict impositions and regulations of the college. On the other hand, the openness embodied by professor Keatingfrom the Horatian concept of carpe diem, the invitation to seize the moment, to fully live every moment of life.
The beauty of art and poetry, the ability to integrate poetry into everyday life, uniting spirit and body. Finally, nature, primitivism, the open and shapeless spaces of the cave that houses the Dead Poets Society. Faced with the conflict between dream and reality, between idealism and pragmatism, between personal aspirations and concrete possibilities offered by imposed reality, the two main characters among the young people, Neil and Todd, represent two opposite reactions. Neil, oppressed by his authoritarian father, is the emblem of the impossibility of reconciling dreams and reality, instinct and constraints. Todd, on the other hand, will succeed, even if only symbolically, in freeing himself from social and family impositions. “O captain, my captain”: the symbolic scene of the film that has become an emblem for more and more generations since then. It is impossible to hold back the tears and not see it again on this occasion.
