Compose a short (minimum 500 words) essay in response to the film we watched in class, Captain Fantastic.
The question is this: how do you think the film relates to Nietzsche's almost breathless and desperate attempt to save human instincts from the deadening forces of traditional religious morality and abstract philosophical speculation? What of (Nietzschean) importance do we discover in the film
about the attempt by this family to abandon traditional society and embrace the off-the-grid lifestyle they built for themselves: was it too naive? Too reckless? Impossible? Or was it all the more meaningful because of its foibles, problems, set-backs and so on?