Tag: Captain Fantastic

FEATURE. Captain Fantastic is by no means alone in expressing a fascination with the ‘outsider’ in American culture. The film tries to charm its viewers into becoming infatuated with its protagonist Ben Cash (Viggo Mortensen), but it also exposes him as being a faulted man and father. In this article Mikkel Jensen explores how Captain Fantastic’s portrayal of Ben intervenes in debates regarding what cultural historian Grace Hale has called “the romance of the outsider”.