I saw this movie recently in health class. I was very inspiried, and I loved the character of Mr. Keating. Somehow, though, I didn't think that Neil's conflict had the depth needed to end how it did. For being such a happy, optimistic person, it was a sudden and quick change to result in the way that it did. I wish that he had been able to hold on to hope and realize that he had the rest of his life ahead of him after school.

All the same, I really loved this movie. The way Mr. Keating encourages the class to think and feel throughout life was so moving. I have thought the same things in my own high school where analytical, yes-or-no questions and annotating (*dies*) have become the order of the day. Even when Mr. Keating began describing how to rate poetry on a graph, I didn't think it was that far-fetched. I was so overjoyed when he told his students to rip it out! His methods of teaching, from poetry to standing atop desks, remind me about how life isn't always about facts or figures and can't be described in 'logical' terms.