Accepted

Accepted

2006

Directed: Steve Pink

Writer: Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, and Mark Perez

90 Minutes

Originally. Creativity. Passion. At the South Harmon Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.), you can be all those things. And Bartleby Gaines (Justin Long) is their leader.

Accepted is about a group of students who were rejected from every college they applied too, including Bartleby, thus apply to S.H.I.T., which was created by Bartleby. Though Bartleby was simply trying to appease his father by creating this institution, he never imaged it would have sprung to greatness by advancing leisure, creativity, and the all-together sexy Blake Lively.

He only wanted to make this father proud with no one else finding out. Thus, when S.H.I.T. accepted over 300 students, there was a problem.

In the scene above, Bartleby enters the auditorium to inform the S.H.I.T student body that the South Harmon Institute of Technology was fake. When he realized all these students had been rejected on their own, he had a change of heart. Why reject when you can accept?

“They got rejected from everywhere. What kind of message would I send if I reject them from my college.”

With Daryl “Hands” Holloway (Columbus Short) and Sherman Schrader (Jonah Hill) in the background, completely in awe, Bartleby begins his journey by starting a college.

A fake college.

But, it’s not so fake. It’s ingenious. It’s exactly what college should be about. It’s fun. It’s excited. It’s passionate. It’s a place where you can figure out your life without having pressures and deadlines. It’s a place to expand your mind, test your limits, and fine what means something to you.

Most of all, its freedom.

That’s why we learn, so we can be free. And while their sister school, Harmon University, can preach structure and rules, we need S.H.I.T. schools in this country to promote creativity.

Creativity is what gives life color.

This entire movie is one of greatness. It was a funny movie about a serious subject. Bartleby poses two question: Why can't we both exist?

It can. And he made it possible. In a country who prides themselves on standing up for what you believe in, Bartleby Gains made it possible with a S.H.I.T. school.

A wise man once said, “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”

It was Albert Einstein.