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Rating: Where did Professor Keating go? What happened to him when he left that classroom? When he closed the door, with the students on the desks telling him O Captain, My Captain? After making mistakes too - of course. Where did he go? What is he doing today? Boh, it's not exactly known. Professor Keating, that school, it was the year 1989. The following year, this film came out. Peter Weir, again. An apartment, a penthouse, in New York. Wonderful. A woman, Andy Mc Dowell, so beautiful and perfect that you can't even have any thoughts other than contemplative. A man, Gerard Depardieu, so full of flaws he becomes irresistible. A marriage put together like this. Because she needs to be married to build her greenhouse, in that penthouse. A precise and functioning ecosystem. And perfect, untouchable. And he, a struggling French or African musician, needs the Green Card. That's all there is to this film. Which is actually a comedy. And there's the two of them not getting things as they'd like, pretending to get married and that's it. But they must stay together. And who the heck could he ever be. He - who is called Faure - and at a dinner, they ask him if he's related, and he asks related to whom? And he plants tomatoes, in that wonderful forest of that penthouse. He who - to cut a long story short - in the end won't be able to say the name of the night cream she uses. The two of them, who in the end - it doesn't end well - embrace each other. And the policemen have to take him away. And there's African music, in the background. Music, like that of his roots.
The films of Peter Weir, in the end, are almost all the same. If you don't look at the surroundings. They tell of a perfect, precise, and aseptic environment. And inside this environment, there's a cyclone. Devastating and terrible. And beautiful together. That comes and sweeps everything away. And there's no way, no way to resist it, because that cyclone, whether called Keating or Depardieu, has within it the force of life. What happens next is not really known. Where Keating is, what he did afterwards. What his boys became. Where Andy McDowell and Gerard Depardieu are. If in the end, she decided to give up her greenhouse. If he really is a musician. What will become of them. The films of Peter Weir are a bit all the same if you don't look at the surroundings. I - as soon as I can - always watch this one again. With him who can't even say what the name of the cream is. With the two of them, who can't even say what they feel. Like a cyclone, that overwhelms them. And I switch off, on the last scene, while they embrace. Before the police take him away. I - Peter Weir's films - always watch them, as soon as they come out. Taking away the surroundings, they always tell the same story. Maybe because then, in the end, it's not like anything extraordinary happened to the Australian director. Then maybe one day he decides to make one, what does it matter about the surroundings. But let Professor Keating return, and say I was wrong. And they tell him they forgive him. That Depardieu and McDowell open a tomato plantation in Africa. Together.
Maybe one day he'll do it.
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