Captain Fantastic on BBC iplayer

[AspergersMum]

Viggo Mortensen is great in this film. Love it. Homeschooling in America - but not the kind of homeschooling people tend to think of when they picture it.

God this was so emotional 😢😢😭😭

Oh I’ve seen that! Ages ago now. I thought it was very good. Even the actual scenery was just amazing and beautiful and I loved that it didn’t idolise its villanise this ‘off the grid’ type of living. It just told the story of this family.

I thought some of the kids were fantastic too.

Idolise OR villainise that should say. It did a good job of showing the problems with this type of living and how it’s not all it’s cracked up to be but also showing the beauty of it. Especially the father who the son comes to realise is actually quite a flawed person, while the grandparents are not cast as horrible villains for disagreeing with the way the grandkids are living. It was just a really honest film. Really enjoyable!

I totally did not expect what I got from the film

I know what you mean. I thought it would be a sort of hippy dippy living off the grid look how beautiful the woods is type thing and then you get this deeply honest and real story of a family. Well worth watching. I did feel some of the kids sort of slipped off the radar/I didn’t notice or remember them. If it had been a miniseries or similar or maybe a few scenes dedicated to the girls? I felt like most of the focus was on the oldest boy and the middle one who didn’t like their lifestyle.