Dead

Unlike buying cinema tickets, on-demand streaming platform lets us enjoy more movies than we can imagine. The good part about the streaming service is that there's always chance to stop and switch.

When our family first picked the superhero movie Deadpool today, we didn't realise the bloody violence scenes throughout the story based on the Marvel Comics. That unsettled us. So much so that we stopped watching within the first ten minutes.

We were disappointed, but not for long. We went for another movie, Dead Poets Society, which was released in 1989. Looking back, I think we have made a smart choice out of the two movies, both starting with "Dead". The classic Dead Poets Society tells the story of an English teacher, Keating the "O Captain! My Captain!". Keating loved encouraging his students to go with their hearts instead of pursuing conformity. His philosophy of carpe diem, obviously, won't be accepted by the older generations. That's why one of the parents wanted to cut his son's extracurricular activities at all costs. He simply wished his son to study hard for his chemistry or science lessons. Some lesson are harder to learn that others, and the one for his son Neil Perry - that acting is more meaningful than studying medicine - was tragic for all parties.

The movie brought tears to our eyes in the family, and if the story of Keating and Neil doesn’t break your heart, well, I don’t know what will.