People around me in real life will never understand how much I YEARN for more dead poet's society content. Please dear God in the sky give me MORE. I need MORE of Meeks, I need MORE of Charlie. I need to see more of Welton and the town. I need to have the gaps filed of what happened before the movie.
Please. Anything. Even something about Cameron
JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING
I also need more writer friends who love to create dead poets art
I'm desperately begging atp
The boy who broke free from his chains while the closest to him sufficiently died has a lot on his mind as if he hasn't completed his story.
Which he hasn't. He experienced Denial with packing everything up and being there for his friends, he has enabled his anger by punching his roommate, the one who watched him in his most secure moments but the Depression hits after that.
But why did I skip bargaining?
People in their grief are always different. For a person like him, so caged yet now so free to simply bargain is not easy to come by. Not to mention that he got expelled and now is back home, with half of a school year uncompleted. There's no time for him to ask God that if he gets this right evil Tom gets the punishment deserves. For a bird that has always been caged and now has freed himself, to be now caged again would rather send you into a wave of depression.
Sometimes I ask myself if the poets believed in God.
I mean it was the 50s and believing wasn't that unusual. But then, after they discover their true selves, can they still believe in God?
And even more so, did Neil think of God when he decided to kill himself?
Or was the death of Neil the reason why some of the poets were stripped away from the image that Christianity was? After all, if God is an all power being, couldn't he have saved Neil? And if God didn't, then why? Is Neil not deserving of life? Does that make God evil? Completely different from what American Christianity tries to raise you with?
Too many questions
To answer why didn’t he save Neil is because he gave us free will so that following Him would be a choice. (Im a Christian) As someone who loves the Lord and relates far too much to Neil Perry, if i didn’t Know the Lord like i do i would also be gone. What Neil did was a choice, like faith is.
Damn that's a really good explanation. I hope God atleast like saw the good within him and let him rest in peace.
I looked into how Christianity views suicide and from what I gathered it seems like it was never stated in the bible that suicide is a sin therefore he should go to hell. It's only that other Christians viewed it as sinful and didn't let the body gets buried equally to others that dies "normally"
It also wouldn't make sense for God to view it as a sin since he loves us and can see that we as humans have problems. But since he gave us free will he can't interfere yet still somewhat understand.
I myself was never a Christian but this topic is extremely interesting because religion is often a thing you get raised on.
But thank you for the explanation. Really appreciate it
Sometimes I ask myself if the poets believed in God.
I mean it was the 50s and believing wasn't that unusual. But then, after they discover their true selves, can they still believe in God?
And even more so, did Neil think of God when he decided to kill himself?
Or was the death of Neil the reason why some of the poets were stripped away from the image that Christianity was? After all, if God is an all power being, couldn't he have saved Neil? And if God didn't, then why? Is Neil not deserving of life? Does that make God evil? Completely different from what American Christianity tries to raise you with?
Too many questions
I like fucking love the concept of Knox's character and the message he portrays but holy shit they really fucked up when it came to the execution. Both in the movie AND book (ESPECIALLY there). This fandom takes its time to reconstruct his character to be likeable. But how would this actually play out in a better-constructed storyline for this dude with girl problems?
Well, that's the answer I would like to answer today
yo, pretty late but what would you think would each poet go as for halloween?
honestly i can see them ALL doing some stupid group costume idea, or specifically in smaller groups (like charlie, neil, todd— i actually joked about how they'd dress as alvin and the chipmunks in a server bc charlie would definitely come up with some stupid idea like that)
i haven't actually thought about it that much, but i like the idea of werewolf/vampire anderperry (works either way tbh) even if it's a little cliche
i think charlie's costumes are always either references or just stupid, he doesn't take it that seriously, but i also like the idea of him just using halloween as an excuse to get into drag
i'm not sure about knox, but i can also see him either doing stupid costumes or any "sexy" costumes 😭
meeks and pitts i feel like would always dress as a pair (they're inseparable in my mind sorry) so their costumes are always references to games, movies or comics
and for cameron, i don't think he'd put that much effort into his costumes? i feel like he wouldn't enjoy dressing up that much (but he could be "forced" into a group costume) so his costumes are always half assed
i really can't think of any specifics bc i'm not that big into dressing up for halloween myself but i hope you guys get the idea 😭
NOW I NEED TO SEE CHARLIE IN DRAG!
Cameron is so interesting because. well honestly I feel like I might have done the same thing as him
now I'm not necessarily saying it was fully 100% justified or like. great or whatever, what I'm saying is it's intensely relatable.
Neil died. Someone you do care about, who seemed to be doing alright before, just died. and now There's inquiries, there's investigations, people are in serious risk and it's all so Real. in a situation like that... i think I'd probably also fall in line, purely because it feels so Scary. like I could be in danger otherwise.
plus the members of the dead poets society always kinda. isolated Cameron, even in this tight knit group he was always the outsider. again I can massively relate and. well what he did is something i can see myself doing if it got really bad.
idk i just think it's very interesting and like. more complicated than some people think. he's not necessarily completely innocent, but he sure as hell isn't as bad as some make him out to be
It's quite interesting how structured Neil's character is. I went ahead and wanted to do my analysis but every time I get to a new point, lots of others come to mind.
Neil is the type of person we can all turn out to be. Either with the way he loves Todd or the way he got hope and lost it again. And I think that's like the hardest thing to fully get down to paper.
It takes more than just watching the movie to get his character to the fullest. This is a problem for me because he never really shone on me as an interesting character. I love him but I might never love his character as much as Charlie's or Knox's (or the lack of it). But now that this revelation of my closeness to him came clear to me, I might need more time for that paragraph about Neil Perry.
I finally figured out what makes Charlie's character such an interesting one (from my perspective)
There are alot of interpretations of his character but what the fandom can agree the most on is that this mf cares about his friends. Almost in a way that is above regular standard.
Okay sounds weird but why did I say it when it's never really shown? Well he often is in the moment when the other poet has a breakthrough in the movie. When evil Tom literally made Neil's day worse, he was the first to speak to him. But to base this little theory on a bigger proof I'd like you to remind the only scene where this big care is vocalised:
