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Captain Fantastic

Captain Fantastic

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A family who have withdrawn themselves from the real world re-enter mainstream society following the sudden death of their mother.

Certificate15

Duration119 mins

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  • Oliver
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Review by Oliver

5 stars

02 Mar 2017

The hardest thing about writing a review is how not to spoil the movie, so I have given myself a challenge with this delightful movie.

Our lead is Ben Cash whom with his wife Leslie have raised their children in the wilderness away from the Capitalist ideals that America has to offer. However when Leslie dies, Ben and his family have to return to a contemporary society, where it's clear while the children are better educated with their knowledge, they are misfits in the ways of speaking to people and they know they can't return to their live without some change.

This movie begins like a ideal exist for some of us. When I personally re-watched it, I can say the way that the children react to the world and the way they were educated was like the way me, as someone with Asperger's Syndrome has had to leave the protection of the world I knew to deal with the scary world that everyone else lives, I found the children well acted and well casted and the actor playing Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) deserved the acclaim he received, I suggest that the film is watched by people who feel they aren't part of this modern world understand that it's an annoyance if people think you're strange but you can prove them wrong with your education and find those that are just like you, embrace your right to be different.

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