Set in the forests of the American West, from the first scenes of the film we will meet other U.S. with this film: a beautiful natural landscape, an anarchist culture, a critical citizen and an alternative way of life in the heart of capitalism.
I won't be the one to discover anyone's cinematic curiosities. Only the issue and the approach is worth it, the chronicle. In the jungle, Ben and his families of six children build their paradise from full sovereignty. The mother, for her part, suffers from a bipolar mental illness that will keep her in the hospital for the past few months. The loss of the mother will bring the change to the family. Because they're going to be fired from him in the city.
And that is where the contradictions of each other will come to light. The film revolves around eleven life lines: food, religion, opulence, military culture, lack of culture, medicine and pharmaceutical industry...
An important question can be seen in Ben's father (Viggo Mortensen): What is preparing children for life? The concern of all fathers and mothers, which leads us to permanent competition in capitalist culture, if others do it “by chance”, to have “by chance” what others have...It is a joy to see in the
film what education does the man who has clear values with his sons and daughters at home. What kind of education, what kind of knowledge and what competencies it develops in everyday life. How does it combine body, critical dialectic and spirituality.
However, circumstances will complicate the life of the family. And they will be exposed to the risks of being so separated from the social trend. The risk of death, the risk of being punished, the risk of losing children... and the mother's bipolar thoughts will be reflected in the other protagonists. "Old Kaká, you start seeing a left-wing movie, and the alternatives are going to be impossible?" ", the viewer fears himself.
We will only say that the ending coincides with the revolutionary values and expressions that the film has highlighted over and over vez.En my first
visit has occurred to me a small “But”: that the family is the only collectivity of the film. In the heart of capitalism, Ben has organized an anti-capitalist family life. And the rest of the family, the mother, has collapsed as they fail. Although the end is far from despair, at no time does the model of collectivity change. There are no friends who live similarly, no village, no community, no movement, no crew... And in this family, of course, my father has authority over all of them. A power that manages with kindness, listening to others and respecting each of them their nature and their differences, but patriarchal at its root. The film overcomes for a long time the stereotypes, the division of labor and the gender attitudes that we're used to, but the father is also here.