Dead Poets

I was watching Dead Poets Society on DVD the other day. It was such an important film to me; I think it was the film that made me realize the power of the written word and at the same time made me interested in literature in a way I never expected. The other impact this film had on me was it made me see films as more then entertainment. Although not a traditional Art-film, DPS made me realize that films can be used to tell a moral tale as strong as myths and legends. It can be used to inspire and change the lives of people. For anyone who has never see it, its one of the films you have to watch before you die.

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life,
to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner…"

~ Henry David Thoreau