Jean, This is the story of a survivalist father raising his six children in the wilderness of Washington State. A tragedy occurs which requires the father to take his family into the real world. The contrast between the home schooled children and the everyday real world children is the bulk of the film. I got the feeling that the film begins to pull it's punches when the two cultures collide.The high point for me was the father performance by Viggo Mortensen. He could not have been more true to the character. Otherwise it is an interesting film but hardly had me questioning my views. (Note there are scenes of killing and dressing wild animals as part of the children's wilderness training.) Dad
The previews were:
The Birth of a Nation
Denial
Anthropoid
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