Goats
(2012/Image Entertainment Blu-ray)
Picture:
A- Sound: C+ Extras: A Film: B+
Ellis is
a 15 year old off to prep school. However,
his family is far from ordinary, his mother is a new age hippie seeing a closet
hustler gay man, his father has left/been kicked out is married to a far
younger woman and he is soon to have a new baby brother, and Goat man his
surrogate parent/best friend who take him out on goat trip and teaches him
about the facts of life, the birds and the bees. But after Ellis goes off to school, the entire
family learns without Ellis they have to grow up a bit in Goats.
15-year-old
Ellis is the most responsible person in his family. After being sent off to prep school, the rest
of the family learns Ellis isn't they to take care of them anymore. While their family is oddly rich, it is far
from normal. Ellis mom is dependent on others to care for her, her lovers only
want her money, Goat man (David Duchovny) is an odd garden/pool man/goat
hearder who grows marijuana which Ellis is dependent on. Also his real father is starting a completely
a new life with a new younger wife, but in the end Ellis learns it might not
matter how strange things work out, as long as they do, then things will be
alright.
This was
a coming of age story of a young boy learning how life isn't ideal. How he grows up, leave home and even how his
first love isn't perfect. To make due
with what you got and to enjoy the journey on the way seems to be the theme,
like a goat that can wander from any place and survive. It was a laughable, comic, drug induced childhood
to boyhood story, but on a side note, you get to see David Duchovny totally
naked. The 1080p image looks really
good, but the dialogue-based sound is lacking.
Extras include making of the movie, The Mailman's Lament, Home Movies,
deleted scenes and trailers.
- Ricky Chiang
