Then, with a cry of “Fuck that!” the clan rumbles off in their bus for points south, past strip malls and chain stores and other specimens of capitalist decadence. (This isn’t really a spoiler - it’s in the first act and is the springboard for everything else.) Her wealthy, straight-laced father (Frank Langella) blames Ben and forbids the family to attend the funeral - an interdiction that Ben considers, to his grieving kids’ dismay. The dramatic linchpin of Captain Fantastic is the loss of the kids’ mother, who leaves them for a psychiatric hospital (she’s bipolar) and, three months later, takes her life. It turns out you can pass the time very nicely with a guitar and a collection of Woody Guthrie songs. Or at least kept them away from computer screens, iPhones, and Instagram. It made me wish I’d taken my kids on more hunts.
It has a wacky road trip, a gonzo public disruption, a stolen corpse, some tears, and a lot of rage against the capitalist machine.
You could actually think of the movie as Noam Chomsky’s Little Miss Sunshine. How Captain Fantastic Built an Off-the-Grid Life
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