it funny that williams star in this and b or c he be in another old movie call sieze the day with jerry stiller and about a loser try to make a buck in nyc a saul bellow story . i like the beginning and when he tell his student they would be worm food and tell them to listen to the dead past student a he whisper carpe diem . seize the day . but i have to question some of the assumption in the movie . for example and the poetry class be only one class out of several . it not more important than any other and yet professor keating selfishly arrogates to himself the task of mold the character of these boy and a if the other teacher be all just dope . he fill his impressionable student with the notion that it be well to be a hopeless romantic than a boring banker . but shouldn not the teacher focus on poetry and and have the student appreciate that and instead of try to turn them all into romantic . after all and most of the student be send there to become lawyer and banker and doctor . a good teacher would have get the student to love poetry and not the teacher . also and one imdb critic write that this film only show rebellion in the form of follow a sectarian leader . i miss that . true individualism and rebellion often be leader less and and the film seem to suggest that these impressionable boy either go with the official program and or go with professor keating no third way and really . the big problem i have with the film be that the character be not credible . prof. keating may have some charisma and but for all the student to love him so quickly and and spend their free time go into the same cave to read poem i find unbelievable . while they be there and they just act silly and and no real attention be pay to poetry itself . also and the boy knox and who woo the girl and i find unbelievable . at first he all shy and and toward the end and he become a real bohemian charmer with his poetry and profession of love . yeah and right . charlie dalton and the one who take most seriously the passionate teaching of his mentor and become quite the charmer and poet but then all of a sudden become the one in the group who best predict the political fallout of his action ( to try and get girl admit to school ) . so which be he and a romantic poet and or a realist . can not be both at that age . the sad part of the movie be suppose to be the death of one student whose dad wouldt let him become an actor . i be a bit touch by his passionate puck performance and but it be confuse because his dad walk in during the performance and and youre think his dad finally accept him and but no his insensitive dad drag him home and where his son eventually kill himself that same night . the boy just couldn not say what he felt to his dad and but the boy be a natural leader among other boy while it be frustrate and depress . if the boy be too weak to even tell his father his passion and then he probably wouldn not have survive a an actor and either ( that my take ) . and like emperor club and both teacher and although leave their intangible and yet indelible mark on the young men they teach and be show to be quite weak and naive in matter of the world and politics . in dp and prof keating be make a scapegoat and kick out from the school and even a he watch in humiliation another prof teach the exact same excrement he tell the student to rip out of their book . so he succeed in stimulate some bohemian feeling into the bosom of a few college prep kid and but then he can not teach there any more good job . in emperor club and prof hundert lose his spot a headmaster to a young and politically connected upstart and even though he teach there for 30 year . what a sap . why should any student respect a man who can not even make his way in the world and and be surprise he pass over for promotion for be so insular . he also seem puny to the grow up bad boy sedgewick bell and the student he try to unsuccessfully mold into a moral man bell invite him to his huge estate and where he also announce his candidacy for senator it make prof hundert moralizing seem a bit silly . here he be invite and via helicopter and to this rich man estate hundert look like a fish out of water . prof hundert live in his little boy world of the classical great and and wrongly assume that the great greco roman leader be men of high principle and honor and value he try to instill onto his student . yet any meager student of this era know that the like of sedgewick bell and the boy who cheat to gain favor and would have fit in just fine next to tyrant such a augustus and julius caesar and who use machiavellian cunning and force and not honor and to make their mark in history . so in that respect and emperor club be even bad than dp and because the basic premise that men of honor rule the world of long ago be flaw and whereas in dp and prof keating acknowledge the chaotic passion in poetry and and try not to moralize as much a instill his student with the same romantic passion great poet felt . i want to see goodbye and mr. chip to see how this stack up against these 2. i give this film a 7. it be beautiful and touching and but too sentimental at time and which almost ruin it .