Thank you, Popcorn Bandits

I've been watching "House, M.D." all season, and for some reason found myself inexplicably drawn to the character of Dr. James Wilson, played by one "Robert Sean Leonard".

"What is it about this secondary character that I like so much?" I wondered.

It all came together this afternoon whilst I read Danny's review of Dead Poet's Society. IT'S NEIL PERRY!

You see, "Dead Poet's Society" was the first movie I ever watched where I realized there was more going on here than some moguls and actors trying to make a buck. People have stories they want to tell, and some of them choose to do so via the Silver Screen. In the character of Neil Perry, I finally looked deeper than the $3.50 admission price and saw another human being's pain bleeding through the screen.

This movie completely changed my life, in both my attitude towards movies as previously discussed, and in my attitude towards poetry. Some of you may find this hard to believe given my history of posts thus far on the current incarnation of the Homestarmy blog, but until I saw DPS, I never cared for poetry. I thought it was a silly waste of time. After watching it, I even went so far as to start a Dead Poet's Society at Dixie Middle School. It never had more than 5 members, but it's how I got to know Susie Turner, and it's where I first learned to enjoy both reading and writing poetry.

I recommend Danny's review to any of you who enjoyed this movie. I've seen this movie enough that I completely wore through 2 VHS copies, and now own it on DVD (in fact, it was the first DVD I ever purchased), but I still enjoyed reading what he had to say.