Zoo

Yeah this movie sucked. It was boring, slowly paced, and tried to stretch out 20 to 30 minutes of story to 1:15. We've all seen the video, and this brings nothing new to the story. Take a definite pass on this one.

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I really would like to give this a perfect score, but alas, it's about horse-fucking.

Wow. Just, wow. Watch it if you can stomach the content. Actually a pretty well-done documentary. It takes the controversial viewpoint of the zoophiles, whose side of the story you never seem to hear otherwise. It's still disgusting, but I enjoy hearing all sides to a story, no matter how controversial or crazy.

Its artistic ambitions are so obvious, it is almost painful. But while it may look pretty or even beautiful at times, its form desperately lacks content.

Boring, way too long for what was said and the efforts to hide the idenity of the speakers made following along difficult. I wasn't a fan of the imagary and would have prefered it as an audio documentary. That said, it is always intesesting to hear a different point of view.

"The legacy of Chris Marker weeps when the future of essay filmmaking looks like a feature-length commercial for Ambien." - Eric Henderson

It would have been easy to focus on the eroticism of horses, who, let's face it, are beautiful creatures to look at even for the nonzoophilically inclined, but Devor shows the animals only sparingly. For him, what's most interesting is what the horses represent to the men who (gulp) love them: the wildness and purity of nature itself.

At one point, the documentary spends time interviewing the actor hired to play the cop that arrests the owner of the victim (?) horse. Combined with the slow-motion, one gets the sense that there is a lot of padding in this 75 minute meditation on the magnificent and creepy places where the border between nature and civilization blends. I would have ranked it worse, but I was homesick for Seattle.

Obviously disturbing, but still quite interesting

One feels that this movie shouldn't be as beautiful as it is. It's an uncomfortable subject that leads to an even more unfortunate death, and yet without showing the act, without getting explicit the movie has this great sadness and some beautiful images. I would love to see what these filmmakers did with a different subject matter because some of the imagery is so striking I kind of want to get lost in it it, especially the night time woods stuff.