Ben (Viggo Mortensen), his wife and their numerous children live in the forest. They hunt wild animals, reading Dostoyevsky and Nabokov, and instead celebrate Christmas day of birth of the philosopher Noam Chomsky. This is not the end of the world, just once, Ben decided to protect children from the influence of corporate computers, hamburgers and other harmful things, bring them up in the spirit of Plato as potential rulers of the new world. Until then, in spite of the difficult questions, the plan fails, but one day the mother of the family dies, and Ben with children have to climb on a bus and go straight into the lair of the enemy.
moviegoers experienced poster “Captain Fantastic” necessarily something then remind: yellow background, family, bus … that’s right, exactly 10 years ago on the screens out “Little Miss Sunshine” – indie hit, rising to two “Oscars” and four nominations, including best film. “Captain” to this success is still far, but something he already has – critical acclaim at Sundance and the prize for Best Director at the Cannes’ Un Certain Regard »
Predict here. something difficult, but a local cult status and spectator love for the film already, probably, are provided, although then you will not say why.
the second directorial film actor Matt Ross operates a standard story about access to the big world of isolation. Yes, here it is a little swollen and turned on its head, but, added a few counterpoints like Ben’s relationship with his wife and another couple of side line, but the overall conflict is understandable and even predictable. Of course, this “little cute movie” love (or hate) is not for the affair, and for the inner warmth and comfort, which they broadcast, and with this, “Captain” everything is in order. Children – is generally always terribly cute, and children, and the eternal Aragorn, bearded Mortensen – kind of guarantee. Separate comfort presents and genre road movie, one just kind of riding along a deserted highway interstate gives special meditative comfort
Behind all this is easy to overlook that Ross brings to this. understandable and familiar intimate scheme is one fundamental change.
Instead of the maximum distance from the current agenda, the director makes heroes of the tales come from recognizable reality in close contact. In fact, “Captain Fantastic” – a rare film, seriously trying to understand the fate of the first generation posthippistskogo. His adult characters, potential voters – children “flower children”, absorbed and developed their ideas, turning them leftist utopia into reality. It is more logical, incidentally, that the patriarch of the family plays an ageless Aragorn, Mortensen. All this makes the “capital” is better, thinner, and just much more interesting most of the independent film needed to dilute the superhero blockbuster, which jokingly appealing name of the movie.
cautionary tale about growing up a few brainy, but deprived of real life experience of teenagers turns into a product with a much more ambitious tasks.
That is why, it seems, manual camera a little more nervously peering into the faces of first met at dinner relatives from different worlds. And exactly why some critics have rushed to accuse Ross inaudible speech. Collision respectable capitalists and forest leftists did not lead to an unequivocal result, they do not find it in the real dispute ideologies. And the film – it’s still not a revolutionary agitation, and attempt to live, to survive, to reconcile, if not explain the contradictions. Out, which offers a “Captain” seems trite, but not at all naive. Well, no idea can be more human, and the last will of the deceased above any philosophy. Sounds really not very original, but it is unlikely someone will say that in my life – at least Viggo Mortensen, though Noam Chomsky – it works somehow differently
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