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+ Best Movie of the Year
+ Best Independent Movie of the Year
+ Most Moving Movie of the Year
+ Best Drama of the Year
This superb poster for Matt Ross' Captain Fantastic hints at its protagonist's problems of reconciling with the America that surrounds him while also including pictures of his six cool children
An idealistic father of six great children, whom he and his sick wife have raised isolated from the rest of society in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, following a well-meant but very strict and isolated physical and intellectual regimen, is served the test of his lifetime, as his wife and mother of the children takes her own life.
Captain Fantastic is the wildly impressive second film of great Connecticut-born writer-director Matt Ross (28 Hotel Rooms (2012)), whom you may know through his acting credits in a long list of TV and feature titles. It tells a commanding story with many nuances and powerful ideas: The father has raised his children to be non-religious socialists with strong opinions about their country and its business-driven agenda. This inspires both funny and sharp comments on the consumerist modern world that some of the kids encounter for their first time, when father and kids head south to their wife/mother's funeral. Since the film sympathizes with the protagonist's views, there is a real level of societal criticism to Captain Fantastic as well.
Viggo Mortensen (Eastern Promises (2007)) cements his position as one of the truly great actors of today in Captain Fantastic, giving complex and awesomely human, heartbreaking life to the character of the father, a man who has gone to extreme lengths to craft the most perfect existence he could imagine for his children, and yet now has to come to terms with the realization that what he has given them isn't perfect, and that perfect existence won't exist for them going forward either.
Viggo Mortensen is staggeringly great as Matt Ross' Captain Fantastic, for which he deserves great accolades |
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