What shocked me in this film is the utopian world created by the protagonist’s father by one person. I personally like the elements of this world: physical training, physics (top education), biology (self-help), spiritual philosophy (reading clubs, creative concerts) , rule-breaking theft), basic social etiquette.
The conflicts created in the film are only reflected at the social level. For example, the conflict of ideas between the two worlds when falling in love and making friends seems to be incompatible with the jungle family, but this is not the problem. If they enter the city and come into contact with higher-level people or the same People with ideas will not have such contradictions, and such people are in the minority, and they live at the top of society.
Ordinary people in society are not free. They are invisibly brainwashed by the chaebols of the society. These people continue to deliver benefits to the upper classes in their ordinary daily life, which is why today’s social phenomenon with serious class differentiation and the rise of populism occurs. In other words, if these people are free, then they have chosen this life - brand name, games, pointless socialization and promiscuity.
So why adapt to such a society? Shouldn't we just smile at these people and focus on pursuing a kind of spiritual independence? Here I see the ultimate goal of life as the pursuit of independence and forming a social circle of likeness. It is not the most important thing for children to reach a certain age, but they have acquired the ability to think independently under this jungle education. Then they will enter various living environments to absorb nutrients, and they will have a broader vision and experience life. After becoming more mature, you can choose whether to return to the jungle life.
As a mature body of independent thinking, the father made his choice and formed his family circle. From the film we can see that the father can almost be called an all-rounder, undoubtedly the elite of the society, but no one is perfect Yes, my father is obviously defective in social aspects, and this defect has also become a huge loophole in this small utopian world, and all the people in it are not very good at dealing with the outside world.
This is the only failure of my father. You can see all the relatives and friends he has come into contact with. None of these people who are most familiar with him agree with his world view. Obviously, he has not formed his own circle. His jungle world is too small and not perfect. , so children need to return to "society" to make up for the inadequacy of "primitive life".
If the father is an entrepreneur, and the company he runs has a certain status in society (such as Apple, Huawei), then the elements of the world he created will be called corporate culture, and to retell the story at this time will be With a completely different feeling, the outside world will approach them with an attitude of looking up, while those who do not match their values will stay away.
In the film, the father's original motivation for establishing the jungle world is to protect his children from the influence of worldly dross, and the bottom line is isolation from the world. Other than that, everything is negotiable. Children have always followed this rule. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. The eldest son and the second son resisted because of this. This is also the conflict point of the film. The father's compromise occurred at the node of his daughter's fall, and his own child was injured due to his own wrong guidance. At the same time, he couldn't help himself, which shook his bottom line. At the end of the movie, his father chose to return to a normal life, introduce social interaction, or remove the element of exclusion, which also gave the movie a benign ending.
Because I saw comments that my father was a dictator, I want to discuss another issue here, that is, dictatorship and liberalism. This is an issue that has been discussed all the time. The point of discussion is how to find a balance between the two. Many modern movies and stories are pushing freedom to a high position, such as "The Wave", the reason is that dictatorship is a natural tendency, good people will stand out, and outstanding people will gain the trust of others and thus have rights, and Freedom is to give everyone the same rights to counter this tendency to dictatorship.
View more about Captain Fantastic reviews
