Goat

Viewed December 26, 2016. The film's portrayal of Hell Week hazing rituals is intense and painstaking (I usually max out at three beers, which made this an especially difficult watch) and always utterly fascinating. Interestingly, the film makes zero attempt to explain why people go through this process - that is, if Goat touches on the strength of the 'brotherhood' that results from pledging, it does so with a healthy amount of distance and irony, making clear its opinion on the matter.

It's often difficult to watch in a truly commendable way, but by the end, it doesn't seem to amount to much.

Yikes that's a clumsily-done but-accurate equivalence. I was saying only the other day at work, of all the ex-prime-ministers that are alive, pig-fucker is the least vocal...

Nick Jonas, the youngest JoBro - he's 24 - makes good on some promising TV acting (Kingdom, Scream Queens) with an outstanding performance in Goat, a fact-based fratboy movie it might be helpful to think of as Animal House minus the laughs.

Punishing and raw, it's a well told tale of real brotherhood, as well as the false brotherhood that's really just abuse.