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
  • Dejuan 2022-03-22 09:01:33

    A bunch of savages, you can go into seclusion without following the "rules" of this world, but at least you have to respect it, what's the difference between humans and animals? What did you teach your child? If you have the ability, you can really hide in the forest and live a primitive life, what to steal and what to drive? Naked in the park, I rely on really hot eyes~ What are you doing with those survival skills? Is the world going to end? The child is completely ruined~ No wonder my wife committed suicide~

  • Aubree 2022-03-24 09:01:34

    Having seen too much realism, here is a thoroughly idealistic experiment, perhaps extreme but still a choice of its own. The ideal life is a process of continuous adjustment and evolution to integrate with nature and society. With a strong body, strong will, independent thinking and personality, and love, it must be supplemented by a soft heart to open. Plus, survival in the wild doesn't save postpartum depression.

Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Vespyr: Yes, thank you, Zaj.

    Ben: Can unique be modified?

    Kids: [in unison] No.

    Nai: [in his froggy costume] We don't hate Nana and Grandpa, but the rest of their tribe are fascist capitalists.

    Kielyr: You're just repeating whatever dad says.

    Nai: [squinty-eyed] I'm writing down everything you say - in my mind.

    Kielyr: Do you even know what a fascist is?

    Nai: Violent nationalist militants, supported by big business, and they're totalitarian single-party dictators.

  • Ben: [Rellian is dangling from climbing rope] Rell? Can you flex your fingers? S-T-O-P. Stay calm, Think, Observe, and Plan.

    Zaja: If you hit the rocks below you, you'll die from blunt force trauma. Or internal bleeding from massive bone fracturing. Or splenic flexure of the large intestine.

    Ben: Yes, thank you, Zaj.