Dead Poets Society

I should perhaps change the name of this blog. It's no longer purely about books... Maybe a little of books, songs, movies, poems, but words mostly.

Re-watch dead poets society. I've never managed to watch the full movie previously. Always bits and pieces here and there but it had been on my mind to watch it from beginning to the end one day. And so that was what I did whilst on medical leave for my wisdom tooth surgery.

It's such a wonderful movie for aspiring poets or people who just love literature. .

At the opening of every DPS meeting, the members would recite a poem from Thoreau:

“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 practise 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, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”

Simply put: to live life to the fullest...Ah, that age old adage....
When I heard this what comes to mind is this quote: everything that you have ever dreamed of is on the other side of fear.
Everyone knows life is short and that every moment counts. That we shouldn't be wasting our life and time on meaningless and unworthy things but really, not many can do it. The reason ? Fear...
Fear of not measuring up
Fear of not being good enough
Fear of making mistakes
Fear of rejection
Fear of regrets

Such a colossal huddle to leap.
But really fear limits the full spectrum of
Life.
I used to fear a lot of things and they crippled me. I'm not saying that fear is completely bad. I fear not being able to live my life fully and hence made some leaps (albeit teeny ones) to try to experience more things.
I feared traveling alone. But managed to do so in france.
I feared the water. But recently managed to swim a bit better and snorkeled in the open sea (very liberating I tell you).
I feared heights. But recently did the zip line on sentosa.
I feared being on stage. But performed a dance some years back.
There are still many fears lurking around. Mainly fear of rejection, fear of not being good enough. All these are harder to get around. Guess will just have to work a little harder.

Tomorrow's probably gonna be a movie marathon day again. I've got several movies lined up like life is beautiful, gravity, captain Phillips, don Jon(for Joseph Gordon levitt mostly), Shawshank redemption (rewatch), green mile (rewatch), etc.

Besides DPS, I watched the impossible, the piano, and what dreams may come(yet again). The impossible was quite good but not as much as a tear-jerker as I had thought. But quite heartwarming to see familial love and the human strength in tragedies.
The piano was quite obscure but so beautifully filmed. And yes, this love story is quite unusual. I don't know if I love this film. Love the music and cinematography mostly and also a bit of the aberrance. But other than that, it doesn't really touch me.
I've already reviewed what dreams may come previously so need not say more. Still the ending of the movie/story always puzzles me. Why would they choose to be reborn after trying so hard to find each other and finally ending up in PARADiSE.?
Being together in paradise is not good enough? No answer to that.