1/7/2024 0 Comments Epoch movie rotten tomatoes![]() ![]() How are we going to put the genie back in the bottle? At the Bergen County Harley-Davidson dealership recently there was a woman named Trish in the parking lot, giving up her Labor Day weekend to take names for a petition to ensure that our freedoms (regarding vaccinations) don't get eroded more than they already have been. "Dead Poets Society" didn't help matters, but the cat had already long been out of the bag. Having courage to go after what one wants is good, but in real life, Knox Overstreet does not get that girl. In reality, billionaire alphas and NFL quarterbacks get alpha female trophy wives. That’s hardly an inspiring message for the PG crowd of kids who were the target audience for this film.Ĭommunism espouses that everyone is equal, which has led to the current misleading mentality of "everyone should get a trophy." Soviet communists legislated that any old nasty geezer could have sex with any beautiful young girl, for example. How does the kid deal with this? If you won't let me be an actor, I’ll shoot myself in the head with your gun, dad. His uptight dad says no way you’re going, by hook or by crook, to be a doctor, and we’re pulling you out of Welton and sending you to military school for lying to me and being in a play. Then there’s the example of Neil Perry, the kid who wants to be an actor. Nolan (Norman Lloyd), Welton prep school's schoolmaster, warns that there will be a thorough inquiry into the tragic death of Neil Perry, in "Dead Poets Society." (Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros) Rebellion against good old church-going tradition starts the slippery slope to our current no-morality, no-truth state of crystal meth, plastic-infested oceans, Jeffrey Epstein, the MS-13 gang, the Sinaloa cartel, child pornography, Americans left behind in Afghanistan, and everything that can be found on a certain American president's son's laptop. The stabilized, early phases of societies are always about human lives focusing on contributing to the greater good of the tribe. Sounds awesome by today’s standards, but this is, in fact, ground zero for when societies begin their decline into decay. Suffice it to say, the main point of “Dead Poets Society” is to incite students to break the traditions, break the laws, and cherish above all else-themselves. Then along came Karl Marx, a self-avowed Satanist, who shrieked about oppression and sowed jealousy via the concept of class struggle, and … wait a minute … I don’t have time for a treatise on communism here in a movie review. Such ethical modalities tend to be labeled as conservative today. The moral foundation of early phases of societies supports laws governing the greatest good, for the greatest number. Yet, the time-bound progression of all things and all processes in the universe follows the law of growth and deca y. ![]() Keating (Robin Williams) is celebrated by his students, whom he has inspired to "seize the day," in "Dead Poets Society." (Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros) ![]() The movie was received as right, true, and just so the gold standard for "teaching our children well," to swipe a Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young lyric. “Dead Poets Society” didn't have to fly below America’s communism-alert radar, because the radar had long been defunct. The decaying of traditional ethics that lies at the heart of communism’s disintegration of America’s moral foundation had already been revealed to be at an advanced state 20 years before, at Woodstock '69. In 2021, I see it as the poster child (or movie poster) for the insidious, creeping way that Hollywood snuck communism, Trojan-horse-wise, into America via the movies.Īnd what’s scary is that it probably wasn’t intentional on director Peter Weir's part. Remembering it as very inspiring in 1989, I originally thought this would be a “Popcorn and Inspiration” treatment, but upon rewinding and reviewing, I feel a need to re-rate it. “Dead Poets Society” won the Oscar for Best Screenplay in 1989, beating out Woody Allen's “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Nora Ephron's “When Harry Met Sally,” Spike Lee's “Do the Right Thing, and Steven Soderbergh's “Sex, Lies & Videotape.” ![]()
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