Saw a movie last night called Captain Fantastic, but don't be misled by the title, it's not a Marvel superhero sci-fi, but a solid drama. I originally planned to watch half of it last night and read it in two days, but it was worth breaking my plan and watching it in its entirety. I was amazed, reflected, and moved throughout the entire viewing process. I even wanted to get to know each of them in the film, observe them in their shoes, and experience their lives. There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people. I have to say that this film brought me another way of thinking about a way of life.
(Spoilers below, be careful)
The main theme at the beginning of the film is to introduce this utopian kingdom: a father leads six children of different ages, the oldest is less than 20 years old, and the youngest is only five or six years old, living in a big forest isolated from the world. Under long-term field training, they can hunt, climb, first aid, swim, and all the survival skills you can think of. Of course, in addition to martial arts, they can also write. Nighttime is their study time, they read, debate, meditate. Study in-depth history, humanities, philosophy, physics and other advanced subjects, proficient in six foreign languages, appreciate classical music and so on. They are a clear stream, standing alone in the world, relying on self-sufficiency to survive, and arming their inner family with the crystallization of all aspects of human wisdom.
Later, because of their mother's funeral, Utopia had to have a violent collision with the real world. The children who came out of the jungle came to their mother's sister's house, and the family in the Utopia kingdom was like a hedgehog with values tightly bound together with a sense of superiority. It was supposed to be a lighthearted dinner, but there was no chat at all. Their mother, sister, and brother-in-law left the table angrily, pointing out the father's way of education, saying that the father had completely harmed the children. The closed private school education of not going to school made the children completely unable to understand the world well. But the father slapped the couple with a slap in the face - the couple's high school child didn't understand some things as deeply as the youngest of the six children he taught.
Later, the drawbacks of this utopian family gradually emerged. The father advocates self-sufficiency and opposes the dystopian consumption model, so they start stealing from the supermarket, euphemistically: "Food Rescue Program"; instead of celebrating Christmas, they celebrate a philosopher's birthday and send it on that day. Handing out gifts, a six-year-old girl was ecstatic when she saw a black steel forged survival dagger with a blood groove that her father gave her; the oldest boy had no idea how to express his love to a beloved girl, and was a man and woman emotionally "Crippled"; they don't go to school, they can only cover up under the police's questioning, and they spend their days acting...
Later, a child's accident became a turning point in the father's mental journey. The child fell from the roof while performing the "task" assigned by his father, went to the hospital for rescue, and almost became a vegetative state. The father was shocked and felt as if he almost murdered his daughter. He deeply reflected on the education of his children over the years and shaved off the beard he had grown for many years. And plan to hand over the children to their grandparents and leave without saying goodbye. He was driving on the road, intending to go back to the forest alone. The footage was elongated and accompanied by music, I was deeply moved, I saw the father's forbearance, the courage to bear everything silently in the face of the life that everyone opposed, the responsibility to the children and his lover, And the great ideal of building this little utopia.
At the end of the story, the children finally felt that they could no longer lose their father, found their father again, and after seeing off their mother, they started their new lives - they went to integrate into society, went to school to start their studies, fell in love, and returned to normal. Life. The movie comes to an end in the scene where the family eats breakfast quietly and waits for the school bus to pick up the children to school.
Let me talk about some of my thoughts after watching the movie: I think the whole movie is a process of enlightenment. There are achievements and pitfalls on the road. There is nothing wrong with advocating elite education, but after years of seclusion, one must leave the seclusion, and society is the biggest testing ground in life. As the saying goes, Xiaoyin is hidden in the wild, and Dayin is hidden in the city. I think at the end of the story, they are not denying or saying goodbye to their previous life, but they have transformed from Xiaoyin to Dayin. Not in such an extreme way, but to become a clear stream in a mixed society, firm in belief, and insist on physical training and mental learning. This is also the essence of Wang Yangming's mind study. The qualities of excellent people in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, can be summed up. They can be written in books, remembered in their hearts, and they all understand the truth. But in the process of enlightenment, no one can find a substitute, and the road still has to be walk on my own.
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