In “Captain fantastic” the main character decided to live in a forest with his wife and kids in order to escape excessive consumerism and be close to nature. He made his own utopia. As a matter of facts, he is so happy with his wife, children are very athletic, smart, resourceful: they enjoy sports and sophisticated lectures. They do love their parents. And of course, they are wiser than their contemporaries.
In my opinion, the director is trying to convince us that living, just with the family in the middle of nowhere, has no impact on children at all. He creates his idyllic world which consists on avoiding the civilization, dwelling in a hut, reading mind-expanding books about the philosophy and hunting.
This is just ridicules. Nowadays you can’t run away from a contemporary world and live in your way. Or maybe you can as long as your kid is healthy and doesn’t need a modern medicine…
The notion of the independence doesn’t work anymore. Firstly as citizens, we are involved in a public life even against us. Secondly, the world is giving us a lot of possibilities but all of them are elements of the system. Thanks to the system and development of civilization we have education, healthcare, fast transport – everything.
The vision in the film is just a dream.
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