Review of Captain Fantastic (2016) by Thomas A — 16 Sep 2017

The film "Captain Fantastic" has proven that you don't need to add excessive, banal sexuality to spice up a film about an off-the-grid commune. The characters are all book-smart people who can have an intelligent discourse on politics or history while not knowing anything about big brands that have bombarded the rest of humanity.

Other than the fact that this is a family drama, the talented fledgling actors who played the role of the children of Ben (Viggo Mortensen) also makes the film all the more interesting, especially when their innocence are juxtaposed with the vulgar display of 'capitalistic wealth' that is rampant everywhere when they go travel to attend their mother's funeral.

I find this originality of the story, which has characters whose socio-political views are aligned to my own, intrinsically beautiful.