Dead Poets Society - How to Deal with Passions

An analysis of the Dead Poets Society's characters and their pursuits of their passions. I hope you enjoy this video essay.
Book link: www.amzn.com/B0CHDKGLJR
0:00 Intro
1:02 What are passions
3:33 The purpose of passions
4:56 Suppressing passions
7:48 Living for passions
11:02 Outro

[@fischerwiesen]

Really good Video - how about a follow up video: It’s true that passion often inspires us to start off - but most of the time it’s not passion itself that leads to greatness, but obsession and there lies danger - because obsession usually isn’t considered a „good thing“ - but it is the thing that leads to greatness?

[@StoriesStructured]

That’s an interesting idea. The first films that comes to mind are Nightcrawler and Whiplash. What other examples would you recommend?

[@fischerwiesen]

@@StoriesStructured Nightcrawler is the perfect example of „what happens if you lose control about your obsession“ - would be cool to have sort of mabye a „positive“ - but these are mostly sportsmovies (Whiplash feels like a sportsmovie) cool could be a double Gyllanhaal with „Southpaw“?
Other movies coming to mind would be „The Prestige“ where 2 (3) dudes try to „overobsess“ each other, or the not so obvious choice „The social Network“ where basically everyone is obsessed with power and by the end noone seems happy.