Dead Poets Society (1989)

Personally, I consider this to be the best film by the late actor Robin William.

In it he plays an untraditional and somewhat disruptive teacher who comes to teach at the prestigious Welton Academy in Vermont in 1959.

His teachings are absorbed by his students since they object among many other things that poetry has structure or rules but that it is free.

Four young people become more in tune with the unusual professor and investigate his past, discovering that he was part of a group called "The Dead Poets Society".

These boys are named Neil, Todd, Knox and Charles.

They approach him and ask him about this group and he replies that they used to meet in a cave and write poetry freely expressing everything they felt with nothing to limit them.

The boys then decide to create a new club of dead poets, they meet in the cave and in a ritual where they reflect on the fact that the cave is free of the prejudices of society and there is no one to oppress them .

In different ways these young men manage to free themselves from their bonds, Todd loses his shyness through poetry, Knox declares his love to a girl, something that was impossible for him before, while Charles invites two girls to the club and writes a rebellious article in the academy magazine.

On the other hand Neil, whose father is military, macho and domineering, rebels against him and performs in a Shakespeare play in the theater, receiving a strong punishment for this, and ends up committing suicide.

The school blames the teacher and fires him.

There are two philosophical currents confronted in this film, the idealism taught by Professor Keating in which he considers that the student must think for himself and realism, the norm of the Institute where everyone must comply with a strict code of conduct,

It is a film where you can see the good and bad of the human condition, where the viewer identifies at the moment his moments as a student and in which rebellion is part of it, which is why the Oscar was denied to William although it was given to the screenwriter Tom Schulman.

The lessons it teaches range from assuring that nothing is impossible to the fact that we must choose our words well, because we must choose our path and not let others do it, be prudent, seek our passion without fear, never stop dreaming, be nonconformist and free ourselves from what does not help us and represents a useless burden in our existence.

It is one of the best movies I have ever seen, I recommend it.