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- 2016
- R
- The Film Arcade
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- R
- The Film Arcade
- 1 h 36 m
Summary Reeling from a terrifying assault over the summer, 19-year-old Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college determined to get his life back to normal. His brother, Brett (Nick Jonas), is already established on campus and with a fraternity that allures Brad with its promise of protection, popularity, and life-long friendships. Brad is despera...
Directed By: Andrew Neel
Written By: David Gordon Green, Brad Land, Mike Roberts, Andrew Neel
- 2016
- R
- The Film Arcade
- 1 h 36 m
- 2016
- R
- The Film Arcade
- 1 h 36 m
Goat
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7.2
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Summary Reeling from a terrifying assault over the summer, 19-year-old Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) starts college determined to get his life back to normal. His brother, Brett (Nick Jonas), is already established on campus and with a fraternity that allures Brad with its promise of protection, popularity, and life-long friendships. Brad is despera...
Directed By: Andrew Neel
Written By: David Gordon Green, Brad Land, Mike Roberts, Andrew Neel
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
64
72% Positive
18 Reviews
18 Reviews
20% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
8% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Goat deals with masculinity, fraternities, and PTSD in equal doses, covering all of them with brutal precision and most importantly, success.
The film is a pointed, astute and unflinching look at unbridled machismo and its consequences.
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 User Ratings
7.2
76% Positive
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"Goat" não é uma ode ao machismo. É um filme vislumbrante e profundamente perturbador sobre rituais e troças. Schnetzer e Jonas maravilhosos!
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Finalmente, um filme sobre as fraternidades que não é uma ode ao machismo. "Goat" é filme vislumbrante e profundamente perturbador sobre rituais e troças. Mesmo que o filme possa ser um grande problema para pessoas sensíveis, eu gostei. Aplausos para Ben Schnetzer e Nick Jonas.
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Goat doesn’t shy from showing us monstrous behavior, which might be more than some viewers can bear. This isn’t an easy film to watch. But it’s even harder to forget.
It might have set out to convey the disturbingly sadistic nature of institutional brotherhood, but it’s the familial variety with which “Goat” explores something ultimately more compelling.
The film's hazing scenes evoke the boot camp sequences in "Full Metal Jacket" but without the merciless coldness, because the film's hero, Brad (newcomer Ben Schnetzer, in a career-making star turn) desperately wants to belong to the organization.
Goat is a compelling watch, but in the end, its themes are a bit muddled, and certainly not unique.
Perhaps it helps to think of Goat as a horror movie. There is a genre of horror film known as torture porn — films that revel in graphic depictions of torture, violence and sadism, mostly to defenseless victims. Think of Goat as hazing porn.
“Goat”: **** **** in Contextualized ****
By Warren J. Blumenfeld
Since viewing Andrew Neel’s new film “Goat,” currently screening in theaters and Pay Per View, I have been haunted by images of the underbelly of toxic hypermasculinity, which our patriarchal cultural system imposes on all boys and men as it assigns us a sex at, or even before, our birth.
The film exposes the paradox of promoting and maintaining the seemingly contradictory notions within all male environments of members operating in **** and **** contexts mediated by deep and profound expressions of **** and misogyny.
Throughout the opening credits, in extremely slow motion, seemingly all white shirtless young college-age men in very close proximity observe some sort of spectacle off screen while gulping beer and carrying broad grins of joy. This surreal scene of young men moving animal-like transforms in regular motion to a pre-pledge fraternity party on the campus of a Midwestern university. Revelers consume massive quantities of beer and hard liquor, young women expose their breasts, and two women engage in passionate kissing to the utter excitement of male gawkers.
The film’s chief protagonist, 19-year-old Brad Land (Ben Schnetzer) enters college determined to get his life back to normal following the horrendous, brutal, humiliating beating at the hands of two off-campus men he offered to give a ride home.
Brad, at this point in his life, feels desperate for acceptance and connection. His brother, Brett (Nick Jonas), a confident, charming, and popular student on campus and a fraternity leader, convinces Brad to pledge Phi Sigma Mu with assurances of security, protection, popularity, and life-long friendships.
Mitch (James Franco), an older alum who returns for a fraternity party, promises Brad that the brothers will always protect him from the abuse he underwent. And Mitch demonstrates his strength and power.
“Slap me in the face,” he yells at Brad. “Slap me in the face.” When Brad refuses, Mitch rips off his own shirt. “Okay, punch me in the stomach!” To force him to do so, Mitch slaps Brad in the face.” “Punch me in f’ing stomach.” Brad punches and Mitch slaps back. Eventually Mitch tightens his muscles, pounds his chest like a gorilla, lifts his arms tightly in the air, and shouts, rather paradoxically, within the entire circle:
“We are the greatest group of gentlemen the civilized world has ever known!!”
Throughout the pledge training (read “hazing”) process, established fraternity brothers pressure pledges on numerous occasions to strip down and perform dehumanizing and brutalizing trials. These include everything from violent mud wrestling; to bobbing for **** sausages, which they must pass mouth-to-mouth through the pledge line; to placing an assumed **** of a brother in their mouths while blindfolded; to slapping one another with rapid and intense blows to the face and spitting at one another; to being force-fed blazing tabasco sauce squirted down their throats; to having their hands and legs all bound together as a group for an entire night; to the group guzzling a full keg of beer within a certain timeframe, which, if not performed to the liking of the pledge leader, each pledge must sexually molest and **** the fraternity goat mascot from the rear.
Throughout the film, young men torture other young men. Some do it for control and power, while some do it for a sense of connection.
Chance (Gus Harper), the pledge leader, singled out Will (Danny Flaherty), Brad’s dormitory roommate, as an example of what happens to anyone who fails to sufficiently tolerate the “training.” Brothers lifted an animal cage into the training site, and scolded Will to place himself inside. Once they locked the enclosure, brothers grabbed their swelling **** from their pants and proceeded to rain down golden showers onto the squealing and nauseated pledge below.
Throughout the hazing process, fraternity brothers shouted orders and debasing terms at pledges, most commonly **** **** and “goat” interchangeably. The choice of terms used as epithets is most informative of what exists in the taunters’ minds in which **** men equate to women, and both equate to subhuman creatures.
Undergoing the hazing, images continually reoccurred in Brad’s mental library of the beating he endured at the hands of the street thugs just before coming to campus. While he could not label it at the time, both the beating by strangers and hazing by the fraternity brothers amounted to very similar forms of male-on-male violence.
What the pledges and their brother masters, as well as most people in the larger society do not realize, however, is the actuality, the fact that this “perfect” celestial norm, this iconic form of masculinity stands unattainably well above and far beyond the grasp of all mortal men and boys. From our birth, our culture, through its socializing masters, place the goal and
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Really great movie. Even though the movie might be a turn off for a lot of people with the very harsh hazing and thought provoking themes I enjoyed it. The cast was fantastic. Especially the main two roles. "Ben Schnetzer" and "Nick Jonas".
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A vulnerable lad gets beaten up then gets persuaded by a 'friend' to go through a fraternity initiation. A morality tale, and probably educational, but not entertaining.
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Long, drawn out, slow and boring. 1 hour in and you'll be wondering is thier a point to this movie. The acting is mediocre at best other than the A lister Franco. How this movie got an R rating is beyond me. Save 2hrs of your life and watch something else.
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Production Company
Killer Films,
Fresh Jade,
Polyphony Digital,
RabbitBandini Productions
Release Date Sep 23, 2016
Duration 1 h 36 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Cruelty. Brutality. Fraternity.
Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Deauville Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Casting Society of America, USA
• 1 Nomination
