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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Charlie Bartlett quotes

  • Charlie Bartlett: [passes a note to Susan] Hi, I'm Charlie.

    Susan Gardner: [replies on a new piece of paper] Yeah, I know.

  • Charlie Bartlett: I'm just a stupid kid.