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RonPrice  30 |
Sun Jul 29 2007 01:15:38 |
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DEAFENING SILENCE & LOUD NOISE In my last decade as a full-time professional teacher, the film Dead Poets Society was released(1989). I saw the film some time in the 1990s just before retiring. I saw it again tonight on a DVD my son brought on one of his weekend visits. The film was set in 1959 the year I joined the Bahai Faith. I wont summarize the story-line here, but I will contextualize it in terms of my own life and of societys in the late 1950s and early 1960s. There is a strong emphasis in the film on the poet, the individual, finding his own voice, his freedom, his liberation from tradition; a philosophy of thinking for ones self, a giving-in to impulse, to feeling is at the centre of this film. In 1959 the notion of self-realization was not yet the pop-psych cliche it became in the 60s and sheer impulse had yet to become the bi-word of the freewheeling rock-and-roll sixties. Walt Whitman, the supreme poet of personality, is the only poet quoted at length in the film. -Ron Price with thanks to Pamela A. Rooks,Woo who? Exclusion of otherness in Dead Poets Society, and Australian Journal of Communication, Vol.18, No.2, 1991, pp.75-83. Still, Peter, I liked your film.1 I did not even know about the Ivy League schools back then, but school was about doing what you were told to do & keeping your passions well-hidden with sport and studying.....and a new religion which came onto the block back then in those quiet 50s(no more room here) | ||
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