{"id":13589,"date":"2015-03-13T22:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/like-ebert-you-might-consider-dead-poets-society\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T22:40:51","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T22:40:51","slug":"like-ebert-you-might-consider-dead-poets-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/like-ebert-you-might-consider-dead-poets-society\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like Ebert, you might consider Dead Poets Society \u201ca collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something\u201d and \u201cshameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.\u201d <br \/>\nThe thing is, though, if you\u2019re a bookish 14-year-old girl, you haven\u2019t yet seen a hundred \u201cother stories in which the good die young and the old simmer in their neurotic and hateful repressions.\u201d And compared to Hollywood\u2019s usual attempts at pandering to you, which in 1989 almost exclusively feature proms, shopping malls, and the high-school football team, you will gladly take one that foregrounds romantic poetry, New England autumn landscapes, and a bunch of unabashedly nerdy teenaged boys wearing navy duffel coats and falling in love with their English teacher.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re a bookish 14-year-old girl in 1989, in fact, Dead Poets Society is the single greatest event in the history of cinema, never mind what Ebert thinks. <br \/>\nAnd if you\u2019re a depressed, bookish 14-year-old girl in 1989\u2014undiagnosed, untreated, fascinated by suicide both as a subject and (not always, but not never) an option\u2014Dead Poets Society might even be one of the things that helps you stay alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.damemagazine.com\/2014\/08\/12\/dead-poets-society-saved-my-life\">&lsquo;Dead Poets Society&rsquo; Saved My Life \u2014 Dame Magazine, Kate Harding<\/a><\/b> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/absurdical.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">absurdical<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Ebert, you might consider Dead Poets Society \u201ca collection of pious platitudes masquerading as a courageous stand in favor of something\u201d and \u201cshameless in its attempt to pander to an adolescent audience.\u201d The thing is, though, if you\u2019re a bookish 14-year-old girl, you haven\u2019t yet seen a hundred \u201cother stories in which the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}