At one point during the Matt Ross written and directed Captain Fantastic, there is a discussion of the book, Lolita. The book, it is explained, has the ability to make the reader sympathize with this man who is clearly in the wrong. Lolita and that description cannot be in Captain Fantastic by accident. They are there because that is how the audience is to understand the movie – we are to sympathize with the man at Captain Fantastic's center, Ben (Viggo Mortensen), despite his clearly being in the wrong… at least about some things.
Ben, we learn at the opening of the movie, has six kids with whom he lives out in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest. The kids are home-schooled with their education extending past books and into things like rock climbing, hunting, and the best way to stab an attacker. Looming large over the family is the mother, who isn't present. Ben learns early on in the film she has died. So, following his kids' wishes and going against his better judgment as his in-laws, Abigail (Ann Dowd) and Jack (Frank Langella) dislike him, Ben agrees to take the children to the funeral several states away.
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