Dead Poets Society 死亡詩社

Neil Perry (Robert Sean Leonard), Todd Anderson (Ethan Hawke), Knox Overstreet (Josh Charles), Charlie Dalton (Gale Hansen), Richard Cameron (Dylan Kussman), Steven Meeks (Allelon Ruggiero), and Gerard Pitts (James Waterston) are senior students of the Welton Academy prep school, whose ethos is defined by the headmaster Gale Nolan (Norman Lloyd) as "tradition, honour, discipline and excellence". Both Neil and Todd are under harsh parental pressure to become a doctor and a lawyer respectively, but Todd wants to be a writer and Neil wants to be an actor.

The teaching methods of their new English teacher, John Keating (Robin Williams), are unorthodox by Welton standards, first exiting the class room whistling the 1812 Overture tune to lead the students down before the class photos of long since aged and passed alumnus to impress the youths with the importance of carpe diem or seize the day. He convinces the students must address him "O Captain! My Captain!" in reference to a Walt Whitman poem if they feel daring. In another class, after having Neil read aloud their poetry textbook introduction prescribing a mathematical formula to rate a poem's quality, he instructs his pupils to rip the introduction pages out, to the amazement of one of his colleagues...

威爾頓預備學院以其沉穩凝重的教學風格和較高的升學率聞名，作為其畢業班的學生，理想就是升入名校。新學期文學老師John Keating（Robin Williams）的到來如同一陣春風，一反傳統名校的嚴肅刻板。Keating帶學生們在校史樓內聆聽死亡的聲音，反思生的意義；讓男生們在綠茵場上宣 讀自己的理想；鼓勵學生站在課桌上，用新的視角俯瞰世界。老師自由發散式的哲學思維讓學生內心產生強烈的共鳴，他們漸漸學會自己思考與求索，勇敢的追問人生的路途，甚至違反門禁，成立死亡詩社，在山洞里擊節而歌！Professor Keating, Mr. Keating, Captain Keating, 他的教育宛若春風化雨，潤物無聲的留在每個人心里…

推薦理由：羅賓-威廉斯會讓你不由地想起和你一起抽煙喝酒，一起公然對抗學校，甚至一起偷雞摸狗的輔導員老師。你那種不羈的少年意氣和無因反叛，也許會在這部電影之后，化作嘴角的一抹微笑，在若干年后時時地悄然泛起。