Vitus
February 7th, 2008
Last night I watched on DVD a Swiss film Vitus. It’s about a boy named Vitus who is a genius and striving to becoming a normal boy. He eventually fooled everyone that he is normal. What caught my attention is a dialogue between Vitus and a school teacher who believed he is not a genius. The teacher asked him if he knows which river flows through Cairo. He lied and said no and offered to look it up on the Atlas for the teacher. The teacher then responded that there is no need because she already knows the name of the river. Vitus, without hesitation, asked his teacher if teachers always know more than their pupils. The teacher of course responded that it is true. So then Vitus asked the teacher again who invented the Steam Engine. The teacher answered proudly that it was James Watt. So Vitus asked her why it wasn’t Watt’s teacher who invented the Steam Engine.
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