When you fly out of your utopia like a bird

Bernadette 2022-04-19 09:01:40

I read "Education" before this movie, so when I saw Captain Fantastic's education to his children, I immediately thought of the farm between the mountains in the book.

Put aside all or-no-politics and talk about education.

Is being "special" enough to be a philosopher really the best education for a child? Is public collective education really worthless? What kind of people are we going to train? The children of Captain Marvel gave a reference answer: living in the jungle, they may be kings; living in society, they will only be crushed to pieces by any wisdom and ignorance.

You can't just tout material things, and you can't just live in utopian conceptual knowledge. The film contrasts the three children's thoughts on the Bill of Rights and the daughter's fall from the villa, and sums it up with nothing more than the older brother's words: "I don't know anything about the world if it's not written in a book. "That's what education is about - it's not about studying hard, and it's not about being idle, you have to know what the world looks like to see what the book is about. Education is never a compromise to any kind of politics or society, but to declare war on everything that is unreasonable and incomprehensible in this world, and is enough to support the war to the end.

I really don't want to say anything about certain political and ideological positions, as well as religious beliefs. This has become a kind of death philosophical proposition in many movies, "Who do you save when your mother and I fall into the water?" No matter which side wants to preempt the Live your own life."

Captain Marvel (2016)
7.9
2016 / USA / Drama Comedy Family / Matt Ross / Viggo Mortensen George MacKay

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Extended Reading
  • Romaine 2021-11-22 18:54:15

    Self-righteousness is actually very ignorant, no matter how smart you are, you have ideals. Laughing at Christians’ belief in God, but playing the role of God, manipulating their children in thought and behavior, is in fact different from others.

  • Hilda 2022-03-21 09:01:38

    I finally understand that the child is not your planned product, nor is it your hope. Don't be shameless parents and let them fly

Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: [walking to picnic benches after shoplifting] Where else can we improve?

    Bo: Flawed exit strategy. Everyone went out the same doors. No one utilized the loading dock area at all. If it got blocked, we'd all be trapped.

    Ben: Mm-hmm.

    Vespyr: Inadequately planned extraction point. We probably shouldn't have all gone directly to the bus.

    Kielyr: Predetermined pickups would have been much less risky.

    Ben: On the plus side, mission: Free the food accomplished.

  • Harper: Children don't drink wine.

    Ben: In France and other countries, children drink small amounts of wine all the time. It's a digestive. It's not crack.

    Nai: What's crack?

    Ben: Crack is a crystallized, highly addictive derivative of the stimulant cocaine. In the mid-1980s, it accelerated the decimation of inner-city neighborhoods. Crackheads, some of them kids just like you guys, were killing each other over nothing, over their Nikes.

    Nai: They killed each other for Nike? The Greek winged-goddess of victory?