Dead Poets Society Steals a Queer Story
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.

Tam gets on the first tube home, plugs himself into his phone and begins reliving his night out via social media stories.
Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.
Despite everything it was capable of, all of these poor choices strung together amount to nothing more than a counter-productive film.
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