CF and Spectatorship

• How far do your chosen films demonstrate a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship?

  The aesthetic features of specifically the opening sequence of the film invite a 'passive' response as the stunning visuals allow the viewer to simply sit back and absorb the visual qualities of the film - the Harmonous idealised, glamorised version of off-grid living in the opening scene of Captain Fantastic
• How far do your chosen films demonstrate a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship?

  The use of controversial events, such as the hunting of the deer, the mise-en-scene of the costumes which make the children seem that they are in a tribe, the mise-en-scene of Zajas Pol Pot shrine and the performance of Vespyr and Kielyr doing the cooking and skinning of the deer may cause spectators to drift in and out of active and passive spectatorship
• How far do your chosen films demonstrate a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship?

  A feminist active spectator - Women doing stereotypical domestic chores such as skinning and preparing the deer in the OTS - Patriachal? Other examples - Vespyr falling off the roof, the story is centred round men, Bo, Ben and Jack, and the funeral scene where Jack tears his wife away from her grandchildren
• How far do your chosen films demonstrate a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship?

  Political active spectator - Ben is extreme left wing and his father in law is extreme right wing. Ben lives off-grid, and has strong values about a capitalist contemporary American society, is atheist/Buddhist whilst Jack is the figure of white, wealth, Christian privilege. The film teaches that compromise are always necessary in life