I like "Captain Fantastic" largely because of the starring Vigo Mortensen. Since 2001, he has been the magic captain in my mind-playing the self-exiled king Aragorn in "Lord of the Rings", leading the people of Central Continent against the forces of darkness and winning.
Interestingly, many Chinese actors have been laid off and re-employed and walked into the Marvel studio next door, such as Ian McLean, Cate Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Liv Taylor, Andy Serkins, Lee Pace, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage...Well, I'm almost out of breath.
Because "Lord of the Rings" has countless fans of Vigo Mortensen, but there is no chance to be a relative of Marvel Fongze. And his new film's name is so similar to Captain Fantastic, perhaps it is destiny that takes into account the desire of fans that makes Uncle V return as a "civilian superhero" in "Captain Fantastic".
The story tells the story of an isolated forest deep in the Pacific Northwest, a loving father led the children to live in a forest home created with his own hands, and wholeheartedly tried to cultivate his six young children into outstanding adults people. But when the children’s mother died of illness, their beliefs began to shake and change, and they had to go to the outside world...
As Matt Rose’s second work after "28 Hotel Rooms", "Captain Magic" "Highly acclaimed. At the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Matt Rose won the best director award. Immediately after the Cannes Film Festival in May, a kind of attention unit award also awarded the best director award to Matt Rose.
Among the successful actors who transformed into directors, Matt Rose is definitely worthy of recognition. It is still too early to say whether it can continue to continue like Jon Fir. But we are still in "Captain Fantastic" and feel how Matt Rose uses all the experience gained from acting as a director. He once said in an interview that his reflection on the experience of raising children pushed him to complete the film, so in "Captain Fantastic" is full of speculations about life and education, survival and belief.
Soon after the film started, there was a campfire night to read. Ben led the children to sit on the ground. He accompanied the children to read together. He asked the children about their reading progress and supervised their reading quality.
The book read by the second son, Rellian, is "The Brothers Karamazov (originally: The Brothers Karamazov)" by Dostoyevsky. Part of the core content of the novel tells about three growing up brothers, avoiding and The behavior of rebelling against their father. And what Rellian did to his father Ben is also very similar.
After learning that his mother had died of illness, Rellian angrily grabbed a knife and rushed towards Ben. "Brothers of Karama" finally reached its peak with the murder of his father, but Rellian finally did not dare to kill his father. Under the combined effect of the mottled emotions of anger, hatred, and weakness, the cabinet became his vent. Later, Rellian repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with cold violence and quarrels.
After giving birth to their first son Bo, Ben and his wife moved to a hard-to-find place to educate the children in their own way. They only used "education" to build an "ideal country." However, platonic love has become synonymous with spiritual love. Utopia's conception of Utopia in "Utopia" is nothing more than a philosopher ruling society, which is similar to Ben's idea.
He taught children survival skills such as hunting, fighting, and rock climbing. He also studied all earthly books and used musical instruments as a means of entertainment. Strict rotation schedules, learning schedules, mutual supervision and promotion, and a good feedback mechanism enable these children to make their spiritual world flourish like flowers under the most basic guarantee of material life.
The most striking scene is that the 8-year-old Zaja recites the "Bill of Rights" and put forward many opinions of his own. Corresponding to this, Zaja’s two cousins murmured and couldn’t tell why: It’s probably the government’s...
Ben’s educational practice is cutting-edge and amazing, and we also feel him in the movie. The massive knowledge and physical fitness of those 6 children. When Ben drove the children to attend their mother's funeral, he criticized materialization and consumerism with them, and discredited the entire social system. So behind the entire jungle education is Ben's personal confrontation against the whole world. Although the father who carried out this kind of education may be arrested on charges of "spreading dangerous speech" in minutes, Ben persisted in this way for more than ten years.
Ben is apostate, intending to be otherworldly. So he gave the children names that are not considered names: Bo, Vespyr, Zaja, Nai, Kielyr, Rellian... Most people don't know how to pronounce them.
In addition, they don’t believe in religion and promote doctrine instead of Christmas. Ben’s birthday gifts to the children include hunting bows and knives. He even encourages the children to drink, encourage them to expose their bodies, talk about sex openly, and teach by example: from time to time to expose naked in public.
Breaking away from traditional education methods and educating their children on their own is something that many parents are eager to but cannot do. Zheng Yuanjie educates his son Zheng Yaqi at home, and Zheng Yaqi is now opening up the "Pipilu lecture hall". It is inevitable that it is not a form of gnawing the old—it is his father’s intellectual property rights rather than money, and he will be the chairman of Beijing Zheng Yuanjie Brand Management Co., Ltd. again. The road to the pinnacle of life does not have a sense of self-creation to “bring out the old and bring forth the new”. Last year, the prodigy incident caused a lot of noise. Although his father advertised his family education concept to the media, the failure of the prodigy's college entrance examination results proved the disadvantages of self-education. In real life, there are so many losers.
The death of his mother was the fuse that triggered Rellian's rebellion, and this was not the only issue that highlighted. Ben's education, or life, has long exposed its drawbacks. The eldest son Bo longed for a college dream in his heart and passed the admission exams of many Ivy League schools in private, but he was afraid to speak up. On the way to the mother’s funeral, the family stayed with relatives, and the children immediately went to play TV Games with their cousins.
More than ten years later, Ben still believes that he has mastered the rules of this kind of family education. As everyone knows, what maintains the status quo is only the self-learning ability formed by the children under strict rules and their love for their father.
In the eyes of the two cousins, Bo and Zaja are all authentic freaks. The strange girl laughed at Bo's proposal, thinking it was a humorous expression. And in the end, when Ben led the children to the funeral, he was dressed in colorful and exotic clothes, and the strange eyes of others.
"Captain Magic" constructed a purely ideal world in the paradise, but he didn't really think about it: What happens to the children when he passes away? Do you still rely on handcrafted works from time to time in exchange for basic material guarantee, and study politics and doctrine every day? When the power of a family falls apart, all these beautiful illusions may cease to exist.
The fundamental flaw of utopia lies in the fact that the concept is too high and cannot be implemented in reality. If immortality takes root in the jungle, then the content that Ben teaches children is almost useless in life, and this kind of education itself has also turned into a kind of utopia-blindly criticizing reality, but cannot truly transform reality. The youngest daughter Zaja talked a lot about the "Bill of Rights", which is just another form of innovative essays in regular schools. If you don't try to make mistakes and integrate with society, what Zaja has learned and said is like a vain cry and cannot be sustained.
I really like the end of the movie. Bo ended up not going to any of the universities that accepted him. And Ben also led the other five children back to the jungle-of course closer to school. Moreover, this amazing family also began to live the life of a real modern person: they built a real house, raised poultry, and the children began to take the school bus to school.
Transformation is not the end of an existing thing, but the beginning of another new thing. Matt Rose gave the last scene full of sunshine and poetry. Ben and the children ate breakfast around the table, read books, did homework and did homework, and were silent with each other.
However, in the still and warm lens, I seemed to have a glimpse of the moment when my father took the children to attend the mother's funeral a few months ago. They were in the bus, cheering loudly, and stepping into the world in the background music called "Scotland the Brave", as if hope was on this constantly circulating road, just ahead.
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