The Professor - The Advantage and Disadvantage of Knowing the Time of Death
Every living thing will die one day, but when? I guess the main issue is temporal, but I'm not sure if everyone really wants to know when they will die. If we knew, what would we do, what would we stop doing? Maybe we would organize a farewell tour and say goodbye to everyone we would leave behind.
After watching the 2018 movie The Professor, which occupied my mind with these and similar questions, I must admit that I came across more questions than satisfactory answers. Even though each of them is fictional, I think they are very much connected to real life.
Professor Richard Brown is the main character of The Professor. After contracting lung cancer, he learns that his days are numbered and he makes a new start by changing everything he has done so far in his remaining life. This beginning is the beginning of the scenes that open the comedy and drama genre at the highest pitch for the viewers of the movie.
Johnny Depp, who gives life to the character of Professor Richard Brown, does a tremendous job even though I didn't like a few scenes. He perfectly stages the change a person goes through from the moment he learns that he is going to die. When the change in question is towards his students, his wife, his daughter and his friends, the result is a near-perfect story of comedy and drama.
I must say that I really liked the script of the movie and Johnny Depp's acting. There are some movies that you want to watch again immediately after watching them, and The Professor is one of those movies that fits this description for me.
My favorite scenes in the movie were the moments when the character of Professor Richard Brown changed after he learned that he was going to die. The characters completely changes his attitude both at work and at home, and shows his strongest personality when he is at his weakest. His performance is entirely his own personal achievement and is very much in line with the script of the movie.
Most of the scenes in The Professor take place between Professor Richard Brown and his students, as one might expect. The moments when he takes education out of the four walls with a roof and a door, into the schoolyard and even to the table in the bar were the most enjoyable moments of the movie.
Since the drama aspect of the movie is paired with comedy, I can't say that it contains a lot of sentimentality, but I liked the way the drama was handled. You don't laugh as much as some comedy movies, but the fact that it manages to make you smile and think with its subtle jokes was the biggest plus.
I think you should definitely watch the movie. There are a few scenes that I didn't like and found very unnecessary, but I don't want to talk about them because I think the positive contribution of the movie is quite high. I wish everyone who chooses to watch it a good time, saying that it wouldn't hurt to blink your eyes during a few seconds of ugliness among so much beauty.