Year: 2009 Original title: The Man Who Stare At Goats
Length: 90
Source: USA, Great Britain
Color: C
Genre: Comedy , Satirist
From: novel "War of Goats by Jon Ronson
Production: Smoke House, Mandate Pictures, BBC Films
Warning: N or
Director: Grant Heslov
Some events bring the reporter Bob Wilton in Iraq, where he meets a certain Lyn Cassady, an early member of the secret U.S. Army unit that deals with the paranormal. Along the way they will learn about the history of the experimental department called New Earth Army, founded with the aim of creating psychic spies in the service the country with special powers like the walk through walls, read minds and stop the heart of a goat just fixing it. In the end, including kidnappings, grotesque situation, quotes and continuous doses of LSD, Bob will be able to go home and write the article so intensely desired.
is grotesque and irreverent vision of the American army, one that Heslov sets. Tones and citazionistici parody, the film manages to entertain without boring (and I swear that was a long time that I fell asleep at the cinema ...) and yet also provides excellent opportunities for reflection on what the war might be different when viewed from points of view we are not aware of. The cast is stellar and the acting duo of Clooney, McGregor initial manage to steal more than a laugh on several occasions: these are added then the brilliant Jeff Bridges - this version of hippie guru - and the versatile Kevin Spacey - who This also makes her role beautifully. The soundtrack is also very well maintained, and the theme More Than A Feeling of the U.S. hard-rock Boston , it goes well and the final intermission.
I must say that I was particularly persuaded to cast very promising. Yet at the end of proizione I could not call me happy: not something I liked. After a morning
university degree, a couple of hours and some exercise, I could see clearly. The basic problem is that I was prepared to see The Men Who Stare at Goats as if I went to see some kind of Scary Movie less heavy and less vulgar or easy laughs from a movie and guaranteed, without a plot worthy of note. And here I fell into the error of the rookie, I admit, but sometimes make mistakes ... and when it happens enough to admit mistakes without doing the hard. So I admitted to myself that this is a film worthy of note, without a doubt the most beautiful and meaningful that I could see for a long time now.
The director manages to juggle issues in a "difficult" with enviable acuity, providing us with the vision of an army crowds, rickety and burlesque, but not untrue: there is an unscrupulous social climber, the pacifist, the first class and the journalist got confused in the midst of a war from afar, at home, it seems another matter entirely.
Most of the smiles we are torn by the quotations from everlasting Angela Lansbury philosophy Jedi of Star Wars short, Evan McGregor hear say "Jedi? What is a Jedi?" ends up not even make you laugh whether you like it, and likewise the quote is repeated throughout the film and carries with it that pleasant aftertaste metareferenziale which unfortunately is not affordable to all directors.
A little gem, well, maybe that should be shown to those who arrogate to themselves the label of "Director" and then only produces bad work.
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