Film makes no sense. Little sympathy for characters. (Spoilers).

Wow never has anybody missed the point of a movie so much!

Hey! You're not old enough to drink! Now go and die for your country!!!

Wow...you seemed to have misunderstood..well, everything. Just starting with the obvious points, he couldn't just wait 24 months to follow his passion. His father was pulling him out of this school the next day and putting him in military school. Then after that he is to go to medical school and become a doctor. So not 24 months, but ten years. Ten years of not being allowed to follow his dreams. Ten years of being forced to only live how his father deems worthy. He didn't kill himself in a spoiled tantrum. He was freeing himself.

You clearly have no idea what it is to have family pressure like Neil. Jesus. Get some empathy in your life. There are many people--rich and poor, white and black, accepted and marginalized--who feel crippling levels of responsibility towards their families.

I agree that the movie doesn't make a lot of sense. I feel like the screenwriter wanted to do something different with the "inspiring teacher" genre but couldn't figure out how to conclude the story, or what its ultimate message is supposed to be.

I was born in 1962 and didn't start thinking about the issues dealt with in this film till I was 10 or 12 at the earliest. From what I understand, MANY things were VERY different in American life before the 1960's. I wasn't there, but I get the feelings that parents (at least in the upper classes) tended to assume they could stage manage their children's lives much more than they can these days.

Certainly it's true that Neil could have just waited until he was 18 to be free from his parents. In fact, his ultimate revenge would have been to enlist in the military instead of going to college. But it's easy to think of these these from the perspective of adults living in the 21st Century. In some family's, and quite clearly in the Perry family, the pressure to conform and achieve and live up to your parents' expectations is very intense and perhaps even paralyzing.

He was a dead poet society dood, it fit perfectly with the film's narrative.

It clearly makes no sense to you because you're dumb.

they are just boys, their background is irrelevant. What makes this movie substantial when compared to its contemporaries, is that the protagonist taught the youth to defy the evil overlords instead of submit to them.

That begs the question, why do you think the young boys should have submitted? Because you have, and think everyone else should as well?

Explica me, por favor.