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snowfall says...
8 years ago
I found this movie to be well intended but filled with a bunch of conflicting views. Yes, homeschooling is awesome, however, it was also portrayed as letting the children end up with poor socialization skills, and they were left thinking that they don't know anything if it wasn't taught in a textbook. The characters were against fascist totalitarianism yet the oldest son (Bo) was a Maoist. How is Mao not the epitome of "the man" they so often talked about sticking it to throughout the movie?

That the grandfather didn't do anything about the children going missing? But they all made it fine to fly out of an airport?

There are way too many inconsistencies in the movie as far as political philosophy and ideologies. But I suppose if you are able to look past that (why they hell would you since it's core to the movie?) then I guess you will enjoy this.

Positive was acting, the idea of the plot, and execution otherwise, but I'd be lying if it didn't irk me to no end that these fundamentals were butchered.
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Reply by Erebos
3 years ago
@snowfall I think this hypocrisy and doublethink was the point of the satire. To show that Ben's family was, after all, as dysfunctional as any "conformist" family in different ways, because there is no perfect system.
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Reply by snowfall
3 years ago
@erebos the general reception of the movie and the other comments I've read seem not to pick up on it as satire. I didn't, but after your comment I think you may be right. One problem with our political landscape is that it is so inconsistent and people appear to hold several opposing views with ease at any point in time. At least, that's why I didn't think it was satire.
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