抱歉下面这一段就不翻译了，大致上，编剧波蒂尔之前所有的短篇小说作品加上这一部《聪明人》的主旨，几乎都是在讲一个个体对自身的带有试探性、又非自愿的寻找和认识。最后在这个艰难的过程中终究意识到，自己的生活也只是现实所呈现出来的样子而已。
And, more to the point, all his stories, short and long, are constructed to bring their characters to the kind of tentative, reluctant self-knowledge that Lawrence arrives at in the end. Every Poirier story turns out to be about the difficult process of admitting that your life is what, in fact, it is.
"I know. It's weird. Shut up." 6个单词，足以概括全篇。
托马斯·海登·邱琦 Thomas Haden Church 饰演 Chuck Wetherhold
（Wetherhold 家中早年过继回来的兄弟，西班牙裔）
喜欢的对白
Vanessa Wetherhold: You should really make your bed. It sets the tone for the day.
Chuck Wetherhold: But, how do you know what tone I was trying to set?
