Review of Captain Fantastic (2016) by Jenefer — 29 Jul 2016

Captain Fantastic is a deeply moving film addressing a common subject in a non traditional context with an optimistic ending.

We admired the stunning acting of Viggo and the delightful kids, specially Saja, The grandfather’s role did not fall into the expected cliché of the firm rigid man, rather a mild portrayal of one who understands the specific type of life the family has chosen with a soft objection to it.

The comic dialogues and humorous scenes were ticklish and eyebrow-lifting sometimes (Saja’s shocking commentaries) and the sad moments (the father driving back alone) were aspects that highlights the moral and ethical values of the movie and render it close to the heart while engaging the mind in the constant comparison between two opposites worlds.

My objections are; it should have a better title, Captain Fantastic sounds like a title for a comic book! and why it is listed at the bottom of the movies in the theatre?

Probably the last scene should be the family dancing around their mother’s corpse and the eldest son going to the university.

This last scene of the children sitting around a table while their father telling them to get ready to school appears static and a normal.

But it is a movie that deserves to be watched and admired.