The golden mean

Guy 2022-04-23 07:01:39

Yesterday, I watched "Captain Fantastic", a movie with a very controversial educational concept, and there will be spoilers later. Dad took his six children to live in seclusion in the mountains. They got up early to exercise, killed animals to eat meat, planted trees, and read books at night. Later, because of the incentive of mother's death, the family collided with the real world. Among them, contradictions are already brewing. A young son suspects that because his father insisted on doing his own thing, living in the mountains and forests, he instructed his mother to be unhappy and died of bipolar disorder. The eldest son applied for the elite university that his father said was useless behind his back, but he did not dare to tell his father. In the end, the eldest son chose to go to Namibia, and the younger son, who was angry with his father, also chose to forgive his father. The family chose to compromise, settle on the edge of the mountains and forests, and did not resist modern life. The children also began to go to school. Several of the details are very controversial. Son injured his finger while climbing in the rain. Dad didn't save him, but insisted that he climb back to safety by himself. Dad pretended to faint, and the children took the opportunity to fish in troubled waters and steal from the supermarket. Later, they began to review and summarize how they could improve. Oops, even though it's a bit sloppy, this kind of bad temperament is also very attractive. In order to carry out the so-called plan to save the mother, the daughter fell from the roof and was almost paralyzed. These details make people feel that Dad is really more self-conscious and sees worldly rules as nothing. Although school education is often criticized now, my current thinking is still more inclined to school education + family education, rather than the private school education in the film. The son of the fairy tale king Zheng Yuanjie received private school education, but his son's current job is equivalent to eating his father's old capital, and he is not outstanding enough to make people impressive. Deliberate seclusion will make people feel a sense of escape to seek peace of mind, but it is better to hide in the city. Maybe it's because my six faculties are unclean and I am greedy for the prosperity of the world. Instead, I feel that after going through the world, or the so-called temptation, I really have no desire and no desire to return to the original. It may be true that a person who has not experienced and enjoyed everything claims to have a firm and pure mind, but it will be as fragile as glass. In fact, there are many points worth learning about Dad's educational philosophy. Dad asked what book his daughter was reading, Lolita. What a feeling, interesting. Interesting is a meaningless word, you can't just describe a book with interesting, you have to describe the content of the book and how it feels to you. We often feel that our language is poor now. This may be because we have become lazy and are accustomed to using online catchphrases to describe and to be concise, but if we try to expand it, it may be pale at first, and it will gradually become fuller later. At the dinner table, the child asked how the mother died, the aunt was covering up the real cause of death, and the father frankly described how the mother developed from postpartum depression to bipolar disorder, and finally committed suicide by cutting her wrists. My aunt felt that my father was too cruel and would destroy the child's trust in the world, but I felt that my father was doing the right thing. Rather than white lies, I would rather the child face the truth that might seem cruel and ugly. The fact is inescapable, you can choose to escape, but fate will choose to charge interest, the longer you escape, the higher the interest. Also, what is there to say directly, if someone guesses wrong, it will never be someone else's fault. → Don't overestimate the degree to which other people have the same heart with us and your language ability. If others will misunderstand, it at least proves that your words have room for others to misunderstand. Also, don't speak a language that (the other person) doesn't understand. (Even if you speak 10 languages ​​yourself, or the speakers are from different countries) → Respect others, don't deliberately make Babel, communicate in order to show yourself, communicate and let the other party understand is the first priority.

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Extended Reading

Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Ben: It's a beautiful mistake. But a mistake.

  • [first lines]

    Ben: [family gathers around the slain deer] Today, the boy is dead. And in his place... is a man.

    Bo: [rips off a bloody bite of the offered morsel]