This Kant is not Bikant

Janiya 2022-03-21 09:02:21

I have a classmate named Kang Mingde who likes to walk on the lawn of the campus with a copy of Critique of Pure Reason. In fact, he didn't read a single page but the cover. He did this only because he shares the same name with the great philosopher Kant. Apart from their names, they have nothing in common. My classmate is a very "emotional" person.

Like the Critique of Pure Reason, which doesn't like philosophy, people are keen to dress themselves up. The result of this is to make yourself "face". Chinese people love "face", even if they are swollen and fat! In fact, Westerners also love face, just like the topic in this film, but there are different names, they are called "popularity". If you're popular, you're the captain of the football team, you date hot girls, and your friends hug each other, then you have a lot of "face".

But sometimes people forget themselves for the sake of popularity, just like the captain of the football team in this film, who originally liked painting, but had to die in the opposition of family and reality. Reality will not solve the problem in one sentence like Charlie Bartlett in the film, the world outside the film is complicated, and there are few people who even tell you enlightening words. But no matter what, Kant is Kant, and can never become Kant. Why not just be who you are?

The most outstanding in the film is Robert Downey Jr. After all, it is a personal experience, and it is handy to act, ha ha! [By Vincentspring]

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  • Isom 2022-04-20 09:01:57

    Do u want to talk about it?

  • Price 2022-01-01 08:02:24

    10.13 I don't like that boy very much. It's the protagonist.

Charlie Bartlett quotes

  • Principal Nathan Gardner: [referring to Charlie's estranged father, who's in prison for tax evasion] There are worse crimes than tax evasion.

    Charlie Bartlett: Yeah, but it's not worth losing your father over.

    Principal Nathan Gardner: Okay, so, stay mad at him forever. How's that working for you?

    Charlie Bartlett: [sly smile, using Gardner's own words from before] Some days are better than others.

  • Murphy Bivens: I think Dustin Lauderbach may be a...

    [wiggles his hand in a suggestive manner]

    Charlie Bartlett: I think you're just jealous 'cause you don't have any artistic ambitions.

    Murphy Bivens: Fuck you, dude. In fifth grade, I played Linus in "You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown." And I was good.

    Charlie Bartlett: Really?

    Murphy Bivens: Yeah.

    Charlie Bartlett: Wow, I didn't know that.

    Murphy Bivens: If I'm jealous - "if" - it's because only guys like Dustin Lauderbach can get girls like Whitney Drummond.

    Charlie Bartlett: You wanna' hook up with Whitney Drummond?

    Murphy Bivens: No. I wanna' to do it right. That's the kind of girl you go dinner and a movie with.

    Charlie Bartlett: [looks a bit skeptical] I don't know, you'd have to clean up quite a bit.

    Murphy Bivens: [scoffs] Not in this life.

    Charlie Bartlett: So, why did you stop doing the school play?

    Murphy Bivens: I kept getting my ass kicked by people like me.

    Charlie Bartlett: Murph, we really have to have conversations like this more often

    Murphy Bivens: Oh, bite me.