Film & TV

Literary Renegade on Instagram: "The movie that glides you to the innermost recess of your essence. It cuts through inhibition and calls you not to act on impulse, but on the deepest, most authentic voice within yourself. Welton Academy, a horrible dungeon of conformity, demanded that every incoming boy should be hammered with its four pillars: honour, tradition, discipline and excellence. These were to be inscribed on their very soul before a single class began. They were carving obedient slaves out of living spirits John Keating stepped into Welton carrying his unconventional style. He carried no blueprint for Harvard, no roadmap to safe careers, a man who never spoke of future, because for him, beauty and living with ferocity mattered more than any utilitarian goal. He imbibed the spirits of poets long gone and dared the living to break the shackles of conformity, to live to the very edges. Keating invoked carpe diem, a Latin phrase meaning to make the most of the little time given to us on this earth, without deferring life to some distant future. He implied that time was running out, youth was fleeting, and we must make the most of it before we become food for worms, reminding his students plainly that each of them would one day “stop breathing, turn cold, and die.” He was not driving his students toward the hedonistic pleasures of life; rather, he was asking them to live aware of what life truly offers. Some things carry no price tag, yet make life worth living. He asked them to stay alive for poetry, beauty, romance and love. Whitman’s lines were an antidote to Welton’s soul-crushing conformity and its mechanistic way of life that demanded complete submission of will and soul. Whitman was a rebellious, free spirit whose poetry contained multitudes of such ideals, calling forth lives to be lived freely. Keating was urging his students to live by exactly these ideals(continued in the comments) #movies #deadppetsociety"