This is my official public apology to the Neil kinnies who saw my post. 馃槶
LET'S RETHINK WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE PLAY 馃槑
I hope I am forgiven for my atrocious, horrid assumption that he would be anything far from ALIVE, happy and right now performing Much Ado About Nothing and Todd in the audience using him as inspiration for his next novel! 馃槡
I absolutly LOVE Mr Keating, but if he did that impromtu poem scene to me I would never ever forgive him, no matter how good a teacher he might be, I definitely would've start crying on the spot.
The weird thing about being a dead poets society fan is that none of us wanted Neil to die, but he HAS to. It鈥檚 so weird that we鈥檙e drawn to the greatest tragedy that we don鈥檛 understand to push a message; would seizing the day and trying to be creative and yourself in a broken system actually move any of us to tears if I didn鈥檛 end in the death of one of the boldest characters?
Also, would it hurt this much if it wasn鈥檛 suicide? If he had been murdered, would it feel different? Would it feel more like he was robbed rather than left with no other option? Would the meaning of the movie mean less without his suicide? I think the answer is clearly yes, but from a narrative standpoint even though it would change little with how the movie ended (I think) it would be such a different experience as a viewer
Live laugh love john keating but clasping your hands over the face of an anxiety riddled teenager who鈥檚 on the verge of tears as you continually bombard him with questions to make him come up with an entire poem on the spot in front of 25 classmates defo added another heap of trauma
It's not controversial to say that Neil was going through some big feelings in Dead Poets Society. But despite that, the only place we ever see him crying is in Keating's office. Because that's the only place he feels safe enough to be vulnerable.
gonna spend years going to uni for acting so i can become super famous and be put in a movie with ethan hawke just so i can ask him if he thinks neil and todd were gay