Captain Fantastic starring Viggo Mortensen (best known for his role as Aragorn in
Lord of the Rings) opens with a scene of a camouflaged hunter in the forest taking down a deer with a crossbow. Encouraged by Mortensen, the young boy cuts out the deer’s heart and devours the still warm organ.
Ah, the off-grid life nothing like it.
Except this doesn’t resemble anything like the life we live off grid. True, the guy we bought our house from a self-styled outdoors television show host who legally changed his name to Rugged Dude embraced hunting, and while we first toured the property often mentioned repeatedly all the creatures we could “shoot in the face.”