Simply A Masterpiece

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The subject matter of this documentary is an answer to a question I've been mulling over for quite awhile. "How old has THIS old Hippie gotten to be?" You understand, don't you? When I was a teen, in the 70's, I thought of my parents as "Old fashioned to the point of stupidity". I wondered "when would I become my parents"? With this film I know "that time has arrived" because do not have ANY sympathy or empathy with these perverts and don't understand the schadenfreude who DO empathize and show it with their "Several Star" ratings. I DO NOT agree that "Great cinematography" or "Great Music" or anything else makes this "Voyeurs Dream film" any more palatable to people who have any sense of propriety. THIS old hippie wonders "when will a Serious, Documentary film about "NAMBLA" be produced?" Don't say NEVER my friends. Had you asked me in the 1970's, "will a SERIOUS, non-pornography, documentary film, about having sex with a horse, ever be produced?" My answer (after laughing to the point of pain) would have been "HELL NO!!!!" "ARE YOU @%&*%$ STUPID?????"

Well, a government operative loves horses, really loves them. He forgot to use a shim, and wound up taking "the whole thang". I'm not sure if the Affordable Care Act covers internal injuries inflicted from "farm accidents", but this guy didn't make it. Most of the people involved wouldn't agree to appear in this docudrama, however, one of the animal husbands actually played himself in the film. It's an interesting story, and kind of a PSA for those who might want to try this at home-use a spotter!! If you loved this film, you'll certainly love the Boner City USA podcast, where similar topics are covered on a twice weekly basis.

Never before I have seen a documentary like "Zoo". It's not just because of its unusual subject but more so due to the way it got filmed. This is such a beautiful documentary to look at, that doesn't take any of the other classic and familiar documentary making approaches.The documentary and all of its events are entirely acted out by actors and perhaps a couple of people who were involved by the real life events but I'm not even sure about that. It doesn't feature any dialog but only narration by some persons who were involved with the real life events and yes, that I'm sure off. It has one big advantage that this is an acted out documentary, since it allows director Robinson Devor to set up every scene beautifully. It's really an amazing directed movie that is also incredibly nice looking, with great cinematography and also a good musical score, that all help to set the mood.It's also not necessarily a straight-forward told documentary. People are just recalling their personal feelings, thoughts and experiences of that time. You can easily start watching this documentary and half way through still have no idea what tragic event has happened or were the documentary is leading up to. There is not one main storyline or person that this documentary is following, which can make this confusing to watch for some people, I'm sure. You constantly have to pay attention to start to figure out what happened. I kind of liked this unusual and original approach, since normally documentaries really aren't part of the most original genre and only are too often different to watch by just its subject.But still, this documentary isn't really featuring a subject that works out in its own advantage. It's a bit of a still controversial subject and I don't think that this documentary does anything to break this particular taboo, since I don't even think that this was the documentary its goal. And that's also a bit of a problem; I don't even know what this documentary its goal was and what it was trying to achieve. Perhaps it tries to create not sympathy but some understanding for its subject but its unusual approach of its storytelling don't really allow this to ever work as anything effective enough. The documentary is memorable because of its looks but is not powerful and just doesn't impress with its subject.So you could say that this is a case of style over substance but in this particular case I can take this and accept this documentary for what it is. I'm definitely willing to give it the benefit of the doubt and recommend it to people, since it still manages to do something so beautiful with such a controversial and gross subject. 7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

It's a story as old as the hills: A man breaks into a farm, masturbates a horse to arousal and inserts the horse's penis into his anus. Sufficiently pleasured by the animal, the man returns the horse to its stable and drives back home. Days later, the man dies due to internal bleeding, the horse's penis having ruptured vital internal organs. We later learn that the man could have saved his life by checking into a hospital, but of course he was too embarrassed to have done so. He died, alone in his home, having been humped to death by a horse.Despite its sensationalist subject matter, this is a rather boring documentary. Not wanting to seem exploitative, the film-makers back away from their own material, too timid to ask any truly interesting questions.Why, for example, did horses fascinate the man? What is the appeal of bestiality? Is there such a thing as horse penis envy? Why was the horse not jailed for manslaughter? Is it possible for an animal to consent to having sex with a human? Why did the police charge the man with "coercing an animal into sex"? How exactly do you coerce such a huge and powerful animal into sex? Either the horse wants to do it, or it doesn't. Doesn't anyone notice the irony of a horse mounting a human being? But no, this documentary doesn't delve into anything interesting. There is one great shot, however, of a horse being elevated above an operating table and then later operated upon by a group of masked doctors. With its surreal juxtaposition between hospital gowns, antiseptic tiles, sterile medical equipment and a giant levitating horse, the sequence recalls several scenes in David Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers".6/10 - I watched this film thinking it was Frederick Wiseman's famous documentary, also called "Zoo", which examines the lives of the men and women working within an inner city zoo. But nope, it's about a guy who has sex with a horse. Kinky.Worth one viewing.