Dead Poets Society [Blu-Ray] [Import]

Peter Weir?s entry in the 'coming of age' teen movie genre Dead Poets? Society is a more than usually emotive tale of one teacher and the students he inspires. Robin Williams plays the radical English teacher in a stuffy New England prep school who tries to make a difference. His unconventional methods and love of poetry make him a hit with the repressed teens under his tutelage and they in turn form a secret society for the pursuit of freedom truth beauty and other bohemian ideals. Much soul-searching ensues not least from the doe-eyed Neil (Robert Sean Leonard) whose sensitive aspirations to pursue a career in the theatre are scuppered by his prosaic father with tragic consequences. True the script is clichéd at times and the battle between adults and teens is hackneyed but no one can deny the emotional power of the 'Captain My Captain' scene where the class defiantly stand on their desks or the moment when Williams inspires his class with the motto 'Carpe Diem'. Indeed it is the rel