A feature film directed by a director Peter Weir in 1989.
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the film was also nominated for Best Picture and Best Actor (Robin Williams). Two BAFT Awards for Best Film of the Year and Best Music.
The film is about an English language and literature teacher who inspires his students to change their lives by arousing their interest in poetry and literature. The film is set in the late 1950s at the fictional Welton Academy in Vermont. The image of teacher Kitting, played by Robin Williams in the film, is based on a real teacher, Sam Pickering, who taught at Montgomery Bell Academy., where filmmaker Tom Shulman once studied.
Viewer review: A film about true values
The film is fateful — it can change a person's life. Just don't directly interpret it as a sermon of rebellion against the system and a hymn to individuality. It's much thinner and more complex. The rebellious spirit is embodied in the film as Newwanda — and is met with a stern rebuke from Mr. Keating. Because that's not what the teacher taught young people. The film is not against closed schools at all — an ordinary school has also been shown, and hardly any of the viewers, if they had such a choice, would like to prefer a regular school with all its liberties to an elite educational institution with all its traditions and frameworks. The filmmakers are not at all against the values proclaimed in this closed school; they are against their emasculation and formalization. Thanks to Kitting, the “four pillars” of the school — Tradition, Honor, Discipline, Excellence — come back to them, thanks to Kitting, from an unexpected side, but already authentic, relevant, alive.
Mr. Keating defends the right of every person to be able to actually be human, to follow their own path. But not by opposing oneself to anything, not by conflict or disobedience (this is what Kitting was FALSELY accused of promoting), but by developing truly human qualities, namely the ability to bring into your life something that is not related to the pragmatic goals of personal success. Kitting's position is an apology for aesthetics: becoming a doctor, banker, lawyer is certainly important in terms of securing one's livelihood, but what sets a person apart is the ability to go beyond expediency. The ability to admire, dream, feel and enjoy every moment of life is, not a protest at all; for Kitting, it is the essence of a complete personality. Kitting teaches a variety of perspectives not so that everyone decides that any opinion is correct, but to liberate perception in order to develop flexible thinking when dealing with infinitely varied and changing realities.
Poetry, far from the task of forming a future highly qualified specialist, opens young people to a previously unknown area of life and gives them the opportunity to become complete as individuals.
The final scene of the film is almost unrivaled in terms of impact. The viewer, together with the film's characters, makes a moral choice. And that's when tradition, honor, discipline and excellence are tested. The film is extremely relevant right now, for us, precisely in today's circumstances.
The script, grandiose in meaning, supported by the impeccable acting work of all participants, and the overall aesthetic impact of the film leads to an absolute 10 points, although the film is higher than any ratings.
Author Miss N.
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