It's a movie shot in 1989. The highschool teacher John (played by Robin Williams) questioned authority, and his students become casualty. I like John because he encourages his student to look at the world from an individual point of view and walk their own way. Indeed, that's how art is created from mundane daily life. Whenever somebody remind me of this, I would be kicking myself for missing all the beautiful scene around me.
The film is really about how society choose its heir. They need to blindly conform to the authority, so that its power can be preserved at the hand of the incumbent.
Nick is one of John's favorite students. Nick's parents banned him from pursuing his acting dream, because they themselves were never given the chance to pursue their dream. It's the inequality in the adult world that stiffens the children. This view is in line with Barbara Lerner's theory: "Children are noble savages, naturally pure and innately good. They have some good and evil in them. It’s just to see who they grow up with and which crowd they hang around with.
Children are a portal to our past, and through experience they become our present and future.
Another point of the movie that echoes with him is that all institutions are inherently inhuman and thus immoral.
Of course, as with most such movies, I am strictly against the white supremacy that is implied in the elite prep school and ivory league colleges.
What is in an education? It's just another way for the society to limit opportunity for the majority. Of course, I am no longer standing by the majority, because they have proved again and again to be irredeemably wrong.
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