I’m Usually Not One To Obsess Over Celebrities, But-

Peter Weir behind the scenes of Dead Poets Society

The friendship between Neil and Charlie makes me genuinely so distraught. Like Neil was his best friend. He was his best friend and he left him at the Welton alone. He had to be the one to tell Todd, and maybe the others, that Neil was dead. He had to deal with all of the adults, and Cameron, blaming Keating for his death and he got expelled when he opposed that idea.

I have so many thoughts about him.

I’m the girls

Thinking about Like Minds again. Specifically Sally. I'm sorry, I thought it was hilarious when we found out she'd taken to teach gestalt theory. Don't get me wrong, I understand that Alex is a genius of some sort, I understand that he's an excellent proof for the idea- but imagine interviewing a privileged twink of a not even eighteen-year-old boy who stares out the non-existent cell window like he's waiting for his soldier husband to come home, despite facing barely any real hardship before, proceeds to tell you that his life has been ruined by a really persistent taxidermist, opens your first meeting by being religious and condescending, and all of this is enough to convince you, an adult woman with a degree in psychology, that not only is he innocent but his niche psychology theory is absolutely correct and needs to be preached to the masses. like. don't get me wrong. I love Alex and I would like to love Sally (I do fear this movie suffers only prominent woman's story revolves mind body and soul around the men disorder) but even if I declared that dude innocent I would not be taking mental health tips and proverbs from him. what.

Realising that in a somewhat twisted way Dead Poets Society is the perfect coming of age movie. There’s this friendgroup that have been together for years, a new kid joins and becomes part of the group, a new teacher changes their lives, they start to become the dead poets society, one of them grows as a writer, another as an actor, two others are geniuses, there’s one that’s head over heels and thinks about nothing else, a know-it-all, there’s the class clown that’s actually a sweetheart. And just as they’re all about to be the happiest they’ve ever been it starts to go wrong and fall apart and the actor has the best moments of his life on stage with his family watching, not his shit parents, but the six boys and teacher who he loves more than anything; then his day, his life really, is ruined by his fucking father. His last act of agency is deciding to kill himself before he has no choice in anything anymore.

Somehow there is still 30 minutes left to the movie.

We see the best friend having to tell the friendgroup, and then the boy who loved his best friend, that’s his dead. We see them break apart from the heartbreak and the loss, none of them will ever be the same. Just a month before they were joking and living and free and now they are grieving and the love has nowhere to go now that their friend is gone. Then the best friend gets kicked out and sent away for punching another group member because he felt so betrayed. Then they lose the teacher that taught them how to truly be free.

Dead Poets Society has every emotion possible and a character for every kind of teenager and as someone who’s freshly 18 and out of school this is how growing up feels. It was never as drastic as the poet’s situation, but splitting apart, everyone going seperate ways, struggling to see each other, losing one another, being forced into lives you don’t want to live with all of your happiest days behind you and it hurts a lot, it’s a subsection of grief because it really feels like loss.

On a side note trying not to use their names was so hard??? I think about them so much they’re basically my friends Fr Fr

DREW STARKEY AS EUGENE ALLERTON Queer (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

girls don’t want boys. girls want to know what henry whispered to camilla.

my goal in life rn is to be the kind of person richard papen would want to be friends with

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