One of the main challenges for Ross was creating believable characters and respecting a way of life that for some people actually exists. In it, a proudly self-sufficient man named Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen) must take his woods-raised brood back into the real world after the death of his wife. That’s the makings of Captain Fantastic, out today, which premiered at Sundance and won Ross a directing prize at Cannes.
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With his new movie Captain Fantastic, director Matt Ross - whom you might know better as Gavin Belson on Silicon Valley - asks a provocative question: What if, instead of letting kids eat from the endless sugar trough and stare at the omnipresent screens of modern childhood, a couple of parents went out into the wilderness and raised them away from the corrupting influence of society? And what if they did this not as a lark or an intellectual experiment, but as an honest-to-goodness way of life?
This mission not only may bring the divide between Jack and Ben to a head, but may also bring out some long dormant issues between the Cash children as they are exposed to commercial America in all its good and bad, and as Bo grows into manhood, he may have his own ideas of what he should do with the next phase of his life.Photo: Regan MacStravic/Electric City Entertainment Although Jack threatens to call the police if Ben shows up to the funeral, Ben and the children believe it is their mission to honor Leslie's last wishes to be cremated as per Buddhist philosophy. Jack takes over the funeral arrangements as per his and his complacent wife Abby's Christian morals, against what Ben knows was Leslie's wishes, as she believed in Buddhist philosophies. Beyond the collective grief, Leslie's act brings out a battle between Ben and Leslie's father, Jack Bertrang, a Christian who not only blames Ben for Leslie's death, but believes that what he is doing "to" the children can legally be considered abuse. While hospitalized, Leslie commits suicide. Despite not believing in Western medicine, Ben sends Leslie to a hospital close to Ben's sister, Harper, so that there can be family close by. Ben believes that this disorder started with her postpartum depression with Bo. Formerly an attorney, Leslie was diagnosed as bipolar. Beyond these issues, Ben and Leslie made the decision to live this lifestyle for Leslie's health. Ben and Leslie have tried to make the children critical thinkers, however, within the context of their ideals. The children are also non-registered home schooled, meaning that they have no official academic records.
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As such, the children have been subject to vigorous physical training know how to deal with minor bumps, bruises, cuts, sprains, and even fractures and know how to hunt, forage, and grow their own food. He also believes that no one will or should be there for you, so you'd better learn how to take care of yourself. Ben considers most of Western society to be fascist, especially corporate America. The parents have passed their socialist and survivalist ideals to their children.
Ben and Leslie Cash live largely off the grid with their offspring - Bodevan, Kielyr, Vespyr, Rellian, Zaja and Nai - in a cabin in the mountains of Washington state.
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