You can call this dad a good dad or a bad dad, depending on how you look at it. Undoubtedly, he loved his six children more than anyone in the world, and he knew very well how he wanted to raise them and teach them to be who they were. And no matter what era they were in, they were a bunch of freaks, even in America's '60s when hippies flourished. Because he completely opposes all the products of commercial civilization: consumption, education, medical care, real estate, banking, religion...even the funeral of contemporary civilization. Perhaps the only thing he doesn't draw a line from commercial products is that he also drives a gasoline-powered car.
However, he gave children a real paradise of nature, real knowledge and learning, real free soul, and real strong body and will. How hard is it to do this? The dad in this movie will tell you. If you lack a little perseverance, I am afraid you will compromise with our powerful modern human society, and then more compromises: move to a big house, get into a good university, still have a credit card, buy a bunch of consumer goods that you have no time to use, do Working on a job that takes your mind, coming home at night watching TV entertainment that makes you more and more lost...
In the end, Dad still compromised, and the eldest son applied for the Ivy League University behind his back and was accepted. Although this struggle made him and the eldest son very painful, this is the fate of any utopia. Why? Because in the end we still have to be with people and with society. Not everyone can live alone in the deep mountains and forests all their lives. When the six children grow up, they will have their own thoughts and make their own choices. Whether it is the United States, China, or any dynasty or country, a certain degree of ignorance of the people is required. If every member of society, as my father advocated, completely critically looks at the politics and economics we are in , business environment, the government can't operate, the country can't be maintained - don't worry, in human society, this is simply impossible. As long as there are humans, there are rabble, run by a small elite. This dad and his beloved wife, who died young, have created their own Garden of Eden, where they can stand cool and sober bystanders against the stupid masses and evil elites, it's their right. I admire them very much. But I can't be them either. Their family is very, very amazing! Salute!
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