Posted on 01/22/2007 6:20:46 AM PST by Esther Ruth
Documentary on beastiality premieres at Sundance Film Festival
By Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Posted January 21 2007, 6:39 PM EST
PARK CITY, Utah -- "Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted.
"Zoo," premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director (the little-seen "Police Beat") and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic in the least, this strange and strangely beautiful film combines audio interviews (two of the three men involved did not want to appear on camera) with elegiac visual re-creations intended to conjure up the mood and spirit of situations. The director himself puts it best: "I aestheticized the sleaze right out of it."
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I happened to think of a few more fiction examples that edge into the Zoo realm. In the 1980's "V" the miniseries, a lizard alien (appearing as a human) impregnates a human female. Star Trek has featured cross-species relationships and resulting children starting with Mr. Spock.
Heather may have two mommies, but Suzie has a father and a goat.
Don't forget Bachelor Party.
Sex with animals, can be fatal. Do you remember the man in WA who had sex with a horse last year and he died from it? And then he had to stand before God and explain to Him how he died. LOL!
Genesis 19:15 And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; LEST THOU BE CONSUMED in the iniquity of the city!
Gen 19:17 And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, ESCAPE FOR THY LIFE; LOOK NOT BEHIND THEE, neither stay thou in all the plain; ESCAPE to the mountain, LEST THOU BE CONSUMED!
Proverbs 6:27-28 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
How do you get to “elegant and eerily lyrical” and “strangely beautiful” from doing the bone dance with Mr. Sphincter?
Devor called it "a difficult film and a difficult film to make." — how about an unnecessary film?
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