Dead Poets Society

In the opening sequence of Peter Wier’s 1989 film Dead Poe’s Society, the soldier-like students and the frightened incoming schoolboys emphasizes the uneasy submission and apologetic morose feeling as though it whispers off the walls.  The parents' enthusiasm of sending their boy off to school is obvious and almost makes them blind to the nervous look on all the boy’s faces, and the repetition of the boy’s clothing and actions foreshadow the lack of care to the boys later in the movie. The bland colors of the church walls are fading away, making the building almost lifeless; the only bold colors that are shown are the ones on the flags saying things like honor and obedience, like the flags are warning the boys of the misery and frightening environment they think they're about to enter. Little do the boys know, their adventures have just begun....