Review: Accepted (2006)
"There are a lot of things in my life that I thought were real and ended up being fake. Why can't the opposite be true?"
- Monica, in Accepted (2006)
South Harmon Institute of Technology.
S.H.I.T.
突然觉得好笑，人们对旧体制的挑战总不免被盖上如此称号。
关于电影本身其实我没有什么想说的；片中主人公所做不过是很多人想做而不敢做之事。
但，我们真正需要的，除了一种藐视一切挑战一切奔放创造的精神，除了这青春的意义，还有什么？
一直想说的一句话。If this is how this is going to be ... then SO BE IT. 这不仅限于本文。
最感动的部分还是片尾那段Bartleby对抗Dean校长的辩论。非常激情的演讲。
Barteby:
Nah, I'm not going to answer your question, 'cause you guys have already made up your minds.
I'm an expert in rejection, and I can see it on your faces.
And it's too bad that you judge us by the way we look and not by who we are.
Just because you want us to be more like them when the truth is …
We're not like them. And I am damn proud of that fact.
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Well, what about you parents?
Did -did the system really work out for you?
Did it teach you to follow your heart, or to just play it safe, roll over?
What about you guys?
Did you always want to be school administrators?
Dr. Alexander, was that your dream?
Or maybe no, maybe you wanted to be a poet.
Maybe you wanted to be a magician or an artist. Maybe you just wanted to travel the world.
Look, I - I - I - I lied to you. I lied to all of you, and I'm sorry. Dad, especially to you.
But out of that desperation, something happened that was so amazing.
Life was full of possibilities. A - and isn't that what you ultimately want for us? As parents, I mean, is - is that, is possibilities.
Well, we came here today to ask for your approval, and something just occurred to me. I don't give a shit.
Who cares about your approval?
We don't need your approval to tell us that what we did was real.
'Cause there are so few truths in this world, that when you see one, you know it. And I know that it is a truth that real learning took place at South Harmon. Whether you like it or not, it did.
'Cause you don't need teachers or classrooms or - or fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with a desire to better themselves, and we got that by the shitload at South Harmon.
So you can go ahead, sign your forms, reject us and shoot us down, and do whatever you gotta do. It doesn't really matter at this point. Because we'll never stop learning, and we'll never stop growing, and we'll never forget the ideals that were instilled in us at our place.
'Cause we are S.H.I.T. heads now, and we'll be S.H.I.T. heads forever and nothing you say can do or stamp can take that away from us!
So go!