Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

The Complex Beliefs of the "Captain Fantastic" Patriarch | ScreenPrism


Quick Answer: Captain Fantastic (2016) follows a man who has chosen to raise his entire family in the wilderness, in part because of his complex…

"Captain Fantastic" name-drops a lot of large intellectual figures - but what does its central character think?

See also...

Review: Viggo Mortensen Captivates in ‘Captain Fantastic’

The Counter-Superhero Calibrations of “Captain Fantastic”

Review: Captain Fantastic | Film Ireland

Explore...

District 9 revision

Editing Captain Fantastic

Ideological Critical Approach - SOTD and Captain Fantastic

Attack the Block revision 1

Edgar Wright: Shaun of the Dead

‘Captain Fantastic’ Review: Wilderness Family With Great Vigor and Viggo

Attack the Block revision

House of Flying Daggers - the value of women

Viggo Mortensen Explains Why 'Captain Fantastic' Is 'Sure to Offend'

The Wave - authoritarianism

New...

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2025

Sixth Form Course Information

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Online safety newsletters

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Computer Science

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Film post-production explained

Discover...

Captain Fantastic AS Examinations Film Studies ZEN School Nurse Screenplay Dracula GCSE Art Shaun Of The Dead NEA A Level Buster Keaton Wellbeing Vertigo Short Film Policy Spike Lee Cinematography Fine Art

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...