Movie for a young poet: Il Postino

I have been watching movie which tell about how the great author write. Capote is one of my favorite movie. watching movie, sometimes give us another enjoyment. For you who are now learning to be a writer, I think, sometimes you need to play movie, especially when you are getting bored after reading a lot of thick books. If you are now trying to write poem, Il Postino. Il Postino portrays the story of a shy postman who develops a transformative friendship with the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

This movie talked much about the meaning of metaphore. Neruda makes a poetry about the sea and the island and Mario, the postman, says the poetry makes him feel like a boat beating the word of the poetry. Neruda says he just made a metaphore. Mario concludes that the world is a metaphore to everything else. Neruda then becomes s speechless. Wow... this is really really great movie...

To get more information and critics about this films, these links may will help you:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110877/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_Postino

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Il Postino: The Movie

Based on true events, Il Postino portrays the story of a shy postman who develops a transformative friendship with the exiled Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. On a tiny island off the Italian coast in 1953, the postman has been given the job of delivering mail to the town's new resident. He is astonished by the remarkable amount of mail from women that Neruda receives, and forges a relationship with the poet to learn the secret of his unlikely power over women. Through their friendship, Neruda not only helps the shy postman capture the town's most beautiful woman, he also inspires the postman to see himself and his quiet fishing village a in lyrical way.

Nominated for five Academy awards, the film is a graceful masterpiece with beautiful performances by Philippe Noiret as Neruda and Massimo Troisi as Mario Ruoppolo, the postman. The film was Troisi's dream project, and despite his failing heart he insisted on seeing it through and ultimately died the day production wrapped.

The film is based on the book Burning Patience by Antonio Skarmeta, which takes place in the early 1970s on Isla Negra, the tiny Chilean village where Neruda lived. The story follows the growth of a young postman whose only job is to deliver mail to Neruda, paralleling the changes in his inner life with the political upheavals in Chile.

Directed by Michael Radford (1994). Rated PG.

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Dead Poets Society

One of the classic films about poetry, Dead Poets Society stars Robin Williams, Robert Sean Leonard, and Ethan Hawke. Directed by Peter Weir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Green Card, Master and Commander), Dead Poets Society is set in the late 1950s in an East Coast boys' prep school, Welton Academy. Robin Williams plays the school's new English teacher and Welton alumnus, John Keating, who inspires his students to love poetry, and to live life to its fullest potential.

After discovering that their new teacher was once a member of the Dead Poets Society, a secret society that met and read poetry, Keating's students decide to resurrect the group. They begin sneaking off to the woods late at night to read Frost, Tennyson, and other poets, and in doing so learn to appreciate great poetry and form deep friendships.

Poetry is read and discussed throughout much of the film; a central scene involves a performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and poetry recitations are sprinkled liberally throughout the movie. One of the most memorable scenes depicts the students' defiant recitation of Walt Whitman's "O Captain! My Captain!" to their beloved teacher. Winner of the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, Dead Poets Society is a moving story about gaining the freedom to be oneself in the face of adversity.

Directed by Peter Weir (1989). Rated PG.

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