Watching a Movie a Day*: Week 2 (Dead Poets Society, Sorry to Bother You, and THE ESTABLISHMENT>:(((()
The whole "establishment" connection was a coincidence. Sorry to Bother You wasn't even on my list, but I thought it'd be a fun watch, and the movies happened to relate to each other in an unexpected way. And I only watched two movies this week because I'm bad at this. I'm also heavily considering taking Her off my list because I really don't want to watch it. See you next week. Dead Poets Society (1989) "Pseudo-rebellion for the rich, future academic" Director: Peter Weir Screenplay: Tom Schulman Really I found it quite interesting. I didn't know much about the movie going in, and I'll have to say it shocked me. First by killing a protagonist, and basically by the whole third act. To me DPS represents the suppression of ideas, and the repression of people under the "establishment". The whole idea of conforming to these expectations and this world around you. We all have priorities, of course, but something I have ...