The Men Who Stare at Goats turns a journalist's encounter with an unusual former soldier into a journey through the absurd ambitions of military psychic training. The comedy works through the gap between institutional seriousness and extraordinary claims. Its more uneasy question is what happens when the language of self-improvement and nonviolence is absorbed into a system built to exercise power. Watch how a seemingly harmless eccentric practice changes meaning when someone expects a measurable operational result from it.