Film; freedom, living in the moment and awareness themes impressively. In the movie, where we often see the concept of “Carpe Diem”, meaning “grasp the day you live” in Latin, John Keating, a literature teacher, tells his students, “We will fertilize a flower in the future.” warns with his words.
Saying that dreaming brings freedom, Mr. Keating conveys to us that people can achieve freedom only in their dreams. This extraordinary teacher guides us in looking at the world from different perspectives. He tries to motivate his student Anderson, who struggles with self-confidence but cannot realize himself, with Freud’s free association therapy. Keating advises us to stand up for what we truly believe in, and even to be loyal to what we believe in, even at the cost of our lives.
The film, which tells about the necessity of getting ahead of the curriculum adherence and the wrong curriculum with our dreams and hopes, is as if evaluating Turkey’s current education system with a critical approach. In the film, which says that if the system is questioned, he will question us in his system and maybe we will be pushed out of the system, we see the suicide of a student trying to live his dreams in front of the exam.
Stating that the easiest way to solve problems is to go to the source of the problem, the film may be pointing to psychological approaches from this aspect. As a matter of fact, Mr. Keeating, descending into the consciousness world of his student Anderson, enabled him to reveal his real world and take firm steps towards self-realization.
