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The radical patriarch of the forest
Ben Cash demands absolute physical and intellectual excellence from his children. He teaches them quantum physics and advanced combat, but completely fails to prepare them for the emotional realities of the outside world.
Viggo Mortensen delivers a powerful, Oscar-nominated performance. He portrays Ben as a man whose profound love for his family is constantly at war with his own rigid, uncompromising arrogance.
His journey is a beautiful, painful deconstruction of extreme parenting. Ben ultimately realizes that true love requires compromise, and that shielding his children from the world is just another form of captivity.