October 30, 2009
Besides its title, writes Noah Berlatsky,
the best thing about the new movie The Men Who Stare At
Goats is the premise. The film centers on the army’s
more-or-less fictionalized efforts to harness psychic powers. And
as Berlatsky notes, this conflation of New Age hippie idealism
and can-do army spirit almost qualifies as a spiritual revelation
in its own right.
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