When you fly out of your utopia like a bird

Bernadette 2022-04-19 09:01:40

I read "Education" before this movie, so when I saw Captain Fantastic's education to his children, I immediately thought of the farm between the mountains in the book.

Put aside all or-no-politics and talk about education.

Is being "special" enough to be a philosopher really the best education for a child? Is public collective education really worthless? What kind of people are we going to train? The children of Captain Marvel gave a reference answer: living in the jungle, they may be kings; living in society, they will only be crushed to pieces by any wisdom and ignorance.

You can't just tout material things, and you can't just live in utopian conceptual knowledge. The film contrasts the three children's thoughts on the Bill of Rights and the daughter's fall from the villa, and sums it up with nothing more than the older brother's words: "I don't know anything about the world if it's not written in a book. "That's what education is about - it's not about studying hard, and it's not about being idle, you have to know what the world looks like to see what the book is about. Education is never a compromise to any kind of politics or society, but to declare war on everything that is unreasonable and incomprehensible in this world, and is enough to support the war to the end.

I really don't want to say anything about certain political and ideological positions, as well as religious beliefs. This has become a kind of death philosophical proposition in many movies, "Who do you save when your mother and I fall into the water?" No matter which side wants to preempt the Live your own life."

Captain Marvel (2016)
7.9
2016 / USA / Drama Comedy Family / Matt Ross / Viggo Mortensen George MacKay

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Extended Reading
  • Samara 2022-03-22 09:01:33

    There are some places that don't make sense, such as reading so many books and not knowing what cola is, then eating cream, and proposing in seconds. But it is still very un-American, very anti-American, and even makes the film have the idea of ​​a European film.

  • Hilton 2021-11-22 18:54:15

    Rediscovered the feeling of watching movies in Ritz in those years! Praise point: At the family concert, Rellian used the drums to beat a different melody, and his father and siblings immediately cooperated in concert; 8-year-old Nai could say that BillofRights himself The explanation of slaps on the face of basic education; Dad’s sincere and honest explanations on sensitive topics such as sex, suicide and alcohol give children the power to know and think; The family version of survival in the wilderness-Utopia vs. balance of society

Captain Fantastic quotes

  • Rellian: We want to complete the mission.

    Ben: No. There is no mission.

    Nai: Mission: Rescue dad and mommy.

    Vespyr: Mom wanted to be cremated.

    Rellian: And we want to honor her wishes.

    Nai: And flush her down the toilet.

  • Ben: [preparing to cremate his wife] My face is mine, my hands are mine, my mouth is mine, but I'm not. I'm yours.