Watching the movie "Dead Poets Society

The movie "Dead Poets Society" was watched during the winter vacation. The movie tells the story of a group of traditionally educated students and a teacher who is against traditional education. In a well-known boys' school, all the parents send their children to get their children into a prestigious school. And it is this one teacher who comes to them like a spring breeze.

"We all have a need to be accepted, but you have to insist that your beliefs are unique and your own, even if others think it's weird or annoying, even if a bunch of people say, that's too bad." This is one of the most influential lines in the movie for me.

Sticking to your beliefs is not only what they needed at that time, it's what we need at this time under the test-based education system.

Most of us are like this, from what we learn to play, are pre-arranged by our parents. When we are young, we may still be disobedient and struggle, but as we grow older, we start to get used to this kind of life arranged by others, and we no longer think too much about the future.

Our goal is to get into a university, but what do we do after college? Most people answer "I don't know."

There is no shortage of people around us who had their own dreams and insisted on them, but most of them couldn't resist their parents' arrangements and decisions. Like Neil in the movie. In junior high school, there was a girl in her class who was obsessed with comics, and even drew them secretly in class, and she loved originality, and most of her classmates marveled at her work.

Her choice after the midterm was to go to one of the international schools and then go to Japan to study manga. But her parents reneged on their promise and chose a more promising path for her, attending UFO classes and going to America. I was surprised to be stopped by her on campus that time, and when I asked her why she was there, she rambled on to me about why.

Her tone of voice was not the same as before, and she was even crying, talking about her parents' decision, her helplessness to accept it, and her unhappiness now. My heart was heavy, and I wanted to say a few words to comfort her, but realized that I could not find any words that could encourage her.

We are too weak compared to our parents. "There are so many manga people in Japan, it's probably hard to make it there." In the end, it was she who comforted me.

We are bound by traditional thinking, and we have many rigid perceptions of what is right and wrong, and what is beautiful and ugly. Like the couple in the movie, whose son is dead, neither of them can understand that it was their persecution and control over their son that made him choose death in protest.

Instead, it is the fault of Mr. Keating, the teacher who encouraged his son to follow his dreams. It was his approach to education, which was alien to traditional education, that led his son down this path. My heart is disappointed and even surprised by this. People's ideas and thoughts are imprisoned in the castle, and they cannot find the wise man who comes to free them.

There is also a scene in the movie Cloud Atlas where the musician suddenly understands something, and he breaks all the fine and expensive china in the room. "Tradition is what people see as beauty." He is trying to break with tradition and create something new.

We're not trying to break down tradition in its entirety, there's no need to do that, but some of the downsides of the influence of traditional thought on us have become apparent. We are trying to break through this layer of constraints.