Vespyr Quotes in Captain Fantastic (2016)

Vespyr: Yes, thank you, Zaj.

Ben: Can unique be modified?

Kids: [in unison] No.

Nai: [in his froggy costume] We don't hate Nana and Grandpa, but the rest of their tribe are fascist capitalists.

Kielyr: You're just repeating whatever dad says.

Nai: [squinty-eyed] I'm writing down everything you say - in my mind.

Kielyr: Do you even know what a fascist is?

Nai: Violent nationalist militants, supported by big business, and they're totalitarian single-party dictators.

Ben: Mom needs to be in the hospital right now.

Vespyr: But you said hospitals are a great place to go if you're a healthy person and you want to die.

Zaja: You said Americans are under-educated and over-medicated.

Kielyr: You said the AMA are avaricious whores only too willing to spread their fat legs for big pharma.

Ben: All those things are true. But mom does not have enough of the neurotransmitter serotonin to conduct electrical signals in her brain.

Kielyr: Okay, you can think that, but we don't make fun of people. Right, Dad?

Ben: That's right. We don't make fun of people.

Vespyr: Except Christians.

Ben: [walking to picnic benches after shoplifting] Where else can we improve?

Bo: Flawed exit strategy. Everyone went out the same doors. No one utilized the loading dock area at all. If it got blocked, we'd all be trapped.

Ben: Mm-hmm.

Vespyr: Inadequately planned extraction point. We probably shouldn't have all gone directly to the bus.

Kielyr: Predetermined pickups would have been much less risky.

Ben: On the plus side, mission: Free the food accomplished.

Rellian: We want to complete the mission.

Ben: No. There is no mission.

Nai: Mission: Rescue dad and mommy.

Vespyr: Mom wanted to be cremated.

Rellian: And we want to honor her wishes.

Nai: And flush her down the toilet.

Ben: [as kids study around the campfire] Vesp? How you getting along?

Vespyr: I just finished chapter 12, "The World on a String."

Ben: [wrestless look of uncertainty]

Vespyr: What?

Ben: Are you having any trouble with Quantum Entanglement? Planck length versus Planck time?

Vespyr: I'm fine.

Ben: Good. Then tomorrow after lunch, you can give a brief presentation on M-theory. Argue counterpoints with Bo and Rell vis-a-vis Witten and Dirac.