A terrific calling card Captain Fantastic's first two acts are brilliant, but its final act fails to live up to their standards. Featuring a phenomenal leading turn from Viggo Mortensen, Captain Fantastic is a funny, charming, and moving little indie film from writer and director Matt Ross. … ExpandĬaptain Fantastic's first two acts are brilliant, but its final act fails to live up to their standards. Captain Fantastic is aware of its eerie bubble created on script and hence spends its first half on setting the characters through it after which it shows its bright and poetic colours that paints this stunning craft. The young actors are supporting convincingly but at the heart of it lies a genuinely moving performance carried off by Viggo Mortensen as a single parent trying to befriend and teach his kids. Matt Ross's work is plausible as a director but its writing skills overpowers it and feels a bit unsatisfactory as it itself fails to justify it whilst projecting the anticipated vision on screen. Captain Fantastic Despite of having a potential head start on its brilliant concept the feature relies upon the usual issues and properties of its genre and still surprisingly reaches to the place where the viewers may have been before but never experienced it like this before. … Expandĭespite of having a potential head start on its brilliant concept the feature relies upon the usual issues and properties of its genre and still surprisingly reaches to the place where the viewers may have been before but never experienced it like this and in his place.
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But it is a movie that deserves to be watched and admired. This last scene of the children sitting around a table while their father telling them to get ready to school appears static and a normal. My objections are it should have a better title, Captain Fantastic sounds like a title for a comic book! and why it is listed at the bottom of the movies in the theatre? Probably the last scene should be the family dancing around their mother’s corpse and the eldest son going to the university. The comic dialogues and humorous scenes were ticklish and eyebrow-lifting sometimes (Saja’s shocking commentaries) and the sad moments (the father driving back alone) were aspects that highlights the moral and ethical values of the movie and render it close to the heart while engaging the mind in the constant comparison between two opposites worlds. We admired the stunning acting of Viggo and the delightful kids, specially Saja, The grandfather’s role did not fall into the expected cliché of the firm rigid man, rather a mild portrayal of one who understands the specific type of life the family has chosen with a soft objection to it. We admired the stunning acting of Viggo and the delightful kids, specially Saja, The grandfather’s role did not fall into the expected cliché of the firm rigid man, Captain Fantastic is a deeply moving film addressing a common subject in a non traditional context with an optimistic ending. We saw it on Netflix, and I give it five stars.Captain Fantastic is a deeply moving film addressing a common subject in a non traditional context with an optimistic ending. If you want to watch something you’ll chew on for a bit afterwards, this may be one for you. I could quibble with some inaccuracies too (bodies decompose more than that after six days), and with the swearing, but I’m still going to give this film five stars for the good job it does shining a light in areas that need it. Because of their alternative lifestyle, it really shines a light on our own culture in a way worth considering.
This movie is about a homeschool dad who does some things right and makes some mistakes too. And I can totally agree with their horror at the unfortunate urban sprawl, the materialistic culture, and the mind numbing invasiveness of screens. I know from personal experience how rewarding that is as well as how tricky it can be to get that balance right. I do appreciate home educating kids to excellence, appreciating and being in nature, eating real (instead of processed) food, and not lying to children, all while trying to help them assimilate. While I don’t hold with stealing, killing animals, giving kids weapons, or nudity in public, I have not knocked this film down to four stars because of the presence in the story of these elements. How does one live out from one’s ideals in a world that is incongruous with them? This 2016 film was thought provoking and we had a good discussion after it.
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