The confrontation of the forest utopia family against mainstream social values in the film is mainly reflected in the following aspects: first, the confrontation with the way of life, compared with the modern mainstream lifestyle steeped in materialism and consumerism, far away from the mainstream society The forest family lives a wilderness survival-style mountain life, with strong bodies, outstanding wild survival ability, and Puritan restraint and purity, making it more like a Spartan family; followed by the confrontation of spiritual values, the forest utopia The family highly worships knowledge, and the father’s education for his children is an anarchic elite education (severe leftist), which is opposed to the modern mainstream capitalist fast food culture; the third is the default value of religion, customs, class system and other mainstream society The confrontation of orientation, the forest family advocates natural philosophy, advocates speculation, questions everything, and advertises absolute freedom, human rights and equality. However, the seemingly perfect utopia also has certain flaws. The utopia world advertised by the forest family with nature, physique, knowledge, freedom, and speculation as its main core cannot avoid some ambiguous problems. The first is the knowledge system. The forest family has raised the advocacy of knowledge to a very high level, but when confronting the mainstream values of society, they have to use the eldest son to collect all the offers of the Ivy League, and the younger daughter to recite the human rights program. It's embarrassing to judge standards to disprove it for yourself. In addition, the father in the movie is not an almighty intellectual. His classical elite education has led to a large knowledge gap for his children. Except for what is in the book, the children know nothing about the whole world, and the children are embarrassed. Education, embarrassing dealings with people can't help but make people laugh. Secondly, in terms of human rights and freedom, the forest family advertises human rights and freedom, but the father in the film is essentially a gentle totalitarian. His children have no choice when they are born, and all the children in the film return to the mainstream society to participate in At the mother's funeral, what he saw and heard on the road had an impact on the children, but he used his authority to prevent his daughter from making her own choice. He chose to go to college and other plots, so his educational method itself is authoritative, with the deep arrogance and extremes of elite hippies. So in my opinion, although this utopian family is a brave and romantic rebellion, there are contradictions. And the father in the movie is so loving. After a series of conflicts with mainstream values, the father decides to give the children the freedom of choice and leaves alone. If the movie ends here, it will become a utopian elegy. The movie simply chooses to use family affection to resolve all this, and chooses to exile his father and finally finds that the children are all hiding in his car. The centripetal force of family affection makes this crisis a success properly resolved. On the one hand, it maintains the face of an idealist, and on the other hand, it uses family affection to reach a consensus with the mainstream society. The family love resolves the main dramatic contradiction in the movie very well, and gives the movie a very warm style, but it also prevents the movie from going deeper into thinking and keeps the movie on a smaller scale. Just like the various leftist remarks and philosophical speculations in the movie, most of them are just symbols that can only be tasted. Dark horses on Sundance, road trips, conflicts in family relationships, teasing and confrontation with mainstream social concepts, "Captain Fantastic" has to remind people of "Little Sunshine" many years ago, as a country on wheels, American road films have long become a very distinctive cultural stage. The utopian story born on this stage brought me a big surprise. As the second work of Matt Ross, "Captain Fantastic" is good enough. In fact, the director of the film, Matt Ross, is widely known to play Gavin Belson, a tech giant who has been blackened to ashes in the hit drama "Silicon Valley" in recent years. Before that, few people knew that he was also a director, but with "Captain Fantastic", Ma Ter Roth not only won the best director at this year's Sundance Film Festival, but also a small gain at Cannes. Dark horses on Sundance, road trips, conflicts in family relationships, teasing and confrontation with mainstream social concepts, "Captain Fantastic" has to remind people of "Little Sunshine" many years ago, as a country on wheels, American road films have long become a very distinctive cultural stage. The utopian story born on this stage brought me a big surprise. As the second work of Matt Ross, "Captain Fantastic" is good enough. In fact, the director of the film, Matt Ross, is widely known to play Gavin Belson, a tech giant who has been blackened to ashes in the hit drama "Silicon Valley" in recent years. Before that, few people knew that he was also a director, but with "Captain Fantastic", Ma Ter Roth not only won the best director at this year's Sundance Film Festival, but also a small gain at Cannes. Dark horses on Sundance, road trips, conflicts in family relationships, teasing and confrontation with mainstream social concepts, "Captain Fantastic" has to remind people of "Little Sunshine" many years ago, as a country on wheels, American road films have long become a very distinctive cultural stage. The utopian story born on this stage brought me a big surprise. As the second work of Matt Ross, "Captain Fantastic" is good enough. In fact, the director of the film, Matt Ross, is widely known to play Gavin Belson, a tech giant who has been blackened to ashes in the hit drama "Silicon Valley" in recent years. Before that, few people knew that he was also a director, but with "Captain Fantastic", Ma Ter Roth not only won the best director at this year's Sundance Film Festival, but also a small gain at Cannes.
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