Comments on: Sundance: Zoo Movie Review http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/ Blogging the Reel World Mon, 12 May 2008 13:29:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Conveniently Misplaced » Blog Archive » El Orfanato http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-205529 Conveniently Misplaced » Blog Archive » El Orfanato Fri, 15 Feb 2008 19:41:59 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-205529 [...] seen some very disturbing films, from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces all the way to Zoo. My friends gave me the “you just ran over my kitten” look when we went to go see Saw3, [...] […] seen some very disturbing films, from Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces all the way to Zoo. My friends gave me the “you just ran over my kitten” look when we went to go see Saw3, […]

]]> By: Rygar http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-169171 Rygar Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:36:37 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-169171 Why is this the "last taboo"? Why is this seen as worse than anything else? What about rape or child molestation? What about husbands who beat their wives and kids? After reviewing all the evidence in this case, police couldn't find a single example of abuse toward the animals. Sure it's damn weird and gross, but then the animals were not harmed and this guy only hurt himself. He made his own decisions and paid the price. He didn't hurt anyone else. In the grand scheme of things, I am less morally offended by this harmless nut than by the countless "normal" heterosexual men who disrespect women and treat them like objects. Why is this the “last taboo”? Why is this seen as worse than anything else? What about rape or child molestation? What about husbands who beat their wives and kids? After reviewing all the evidence in this case, police couldn’t find a single example of abuse toward the animals. Sure it’s damn weird and gross, but then the animals were not harmed and this guy only hurt himself. He made his own decisions and paid the price. He didn’t hurt anyone else. In the grand scheme of things, I am less morally offended by this harmless nut than by the countless “normal” heterosexual men who disrespect women and treat them like objects.

]]> By: neo http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-146587 neo Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:27:18 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-146587 i am looking forward to this film i am waiting for you Zoo! ^-^ i am looking forward to this film
i am waiting for you Zoo!
^-^

]]> By: Málbeinið » Fílarnir meðal vor http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-78444 Málbeinið » Fílarnir meðal vor Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:55:46 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-78444 [...] birtast þegar smellt er á tenglana. Ég er svo viðkvæmur að ég þori ekki að sjá myndina Zoo sem Græna ljósið býður upp á. Best að rifja upp kal í túnum yfir [...] […] birtast þegar smellt er á tenglana. Ég er svo viðkvæmur að ég þori ekki að sjá myndina Zoo sem Græna ljósið býður upp á. Best að rifja upp kal í túnum yfir […]

]]> By: faliklunj http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-65903 faliklunj Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:06:23 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-65903 see them at: www.increasethepiss.blogspot.com see them at: www.increasethepiss.blogspot.com

]]> By: john coleman http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-65882 john coleman Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:58:03 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-65882 pls,send me 2 of your latest movies.p.o.box cs 8810 medass,ghana-tema. pls,send me 2 of your latest movies.p.o.box cs 8810 medass,ghana-tema.

]]> By: faliklunj http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-55780 faliklunj Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:40:22 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-55780 I am home. So wipe away some of that foam and calm down... I merely meant to suggest that our current squeamishness in the face of films like the Woodsman etc. indicates that several of what we would call classical tragic scenarios have been removed silently from our dramas by a ever-repressive system that prefers us to watch outrageous tortures and not balance that with equally shocking sexual content. Look at the paintings of Otto Dix or the surrealistic films of Dali and Bunuel. Could they be made today? Most of the elements of classical drama are here with us in modern cinema but the more thought-provoking sexual edge of society is glossed over or ignored. Political correctness has robbed the teeth from melodrama's hot lips, I'm afraid. By the way, I haven't seen this movie so I cannot compare it to Oedipus although i'm sure if you dig there are plenty of references to people sleeping with animals in classical literature and art. I am home. So wipe away some of that foam and calm down… I merely meant to suggest that our current squeamishness in the face of films like the Woodsman etc. indicates that several of what we would call classical tragic scenarios have been removed silently from our dramas by a ever-repressive system that prefers us to watch outrageous tortures and not balance that with equally shocking sexual content. Look at the paintings of Otto Dix or the surrealistic films of Dali and Bunuel. Could they be made today? Most of the elements of classical drama are here with us in modern cinema but the more thought-provoking sexual edge of society is glossed over or ignored. Political correctness has robbed the teeth from melodrama’s hot lips, I’m afraid.
By the way, I haven’t seen this movie so I cannot compare it to Oedipus although i’m sure if you dig there are plenty of references to people sleeping with animals in classical literature and art.

]]> By: deathtosundance http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-55465 deathtosundance Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:37:34 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-55465 How dare you compare Oedipus to this shit! This exactly why I am against this movie, because idiots like you have the audacity to compare Shakespeare and Sophocles, to this. Please go home, pull your head out of your ass, and then read the great tragedies. How dare you compare Oedipus to this shit! This exactly why I am against this movie, because idiots like you have the audacity to compare Shakespeare and Sophocles, to this. Please go home, pull your head out of your ass, and then read the great tragedies.

]]> By: faliklunj http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-55156 faliklunj Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:04:16 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-55156 Back in the days of Greek tragedy (even Shakespsearean tragedy), sex,violence, incest, infanticide and rape were all part of the entertainment. However, due mostly to the Hays Code of the 40's, we now have the situatiuon where we have a PG-13 movie splattered with the most violent tortures allowed through the MPAA, any sex shots, even between puppets, is edited out, indicating that violence is normal but sex is not. A country that allows you to have a gun at age 12 but won't allow you to see sex at any age on the screen is the sickness in society, not this film. Back in the days of Greek tragedy (even Shakespsearean tragedy), sex,violence, incest, infanticide and rape were all part of the entertainment. However, due mostly to the Hays Code of the 40’s, we now have the situatiuon where we have a PG-13 movie splattered with the most violent tortures allowed through the MPAA, any sex shots, even between puppets, is edited out, indicating that violence is normal but sex is not. A country that allows you to have a gun at age 12 but won’t allow you to see sex at any age on the screen is the sickness in society, not this film.

]]> By: stands with the misunderstood http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42750 stands with the misunderstood Sat, 02 Jun 2007 01:34:09 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42750 hardly. Pedophiles can't help being what they are. neither can zooaplilics. feel free to impose laws against the sexual activities but then you leave them with the choice to break that law. Plus if you don't like this stuff why bother posting comments about how sickening you find other people's fetishes i mean talk about depressive nature hardly. Pedophiles can’t help being what they are. neither can zooaplilics. feel free to impose laws against the sexual activities but then you leave them with the choice to break that law. Plus if you don’t like this stuff why bother posting comments about how sickening you find other people’s fetishes i mean talk about depressive nature

]]> By: death to sundance http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42606 death to sundance Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:28:59 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42606 There is nothing to understand this is vulgar and wrong. Are pedophiles misunderstood people, this movie tries to portray these sickos in an artsy way. I think all of you have truly lost it! There is nothing to understand this is vulgar and wrong. Are pedophiles misunderstood people, this movie tries to portray these sickos in an artsy way. I think all of you have truly lost it!

]]> By: stands with the misunderstood http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42546 stands with the misunderstood Fri, 01 Jun 2007 15:24:25 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42546 i agree. instead of calling it an illness and unnatural tery to understand it. i agree. instead of calling it an illness and unnatural tery to understand it.

]]> By: mofo64 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42125 mofo64 Thu, 31 May 2007 11:34:11 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-42125 Hey people, this stufff is happening around you. ignoring it won't eliminate it. try to educate yourselves.... Hey people,

this stufff is happening around you. ignoring it won’t eliminate it. try to educate yourselves….

]]> By: Outeasy http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-40337 Outeasy Sun, 27 May 2007 08:05:05 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-40337 It's a film about a controversial subject that never really gets addressed. Who is Bob Ducco? It’s a film about a controversial subject that never really gets addressed. Who is Bob Ducco?

]]> By: pifdigital http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-40285 pifdigital Sun, 27 May 2007 05:39:22 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-40285 I agree with BobDucco. If we allow this, what is next. It is not natural, it's sick. This as a film about mental illness. It's subjects need help. I agree with BobDucco. If we allow this, what is next. It is not natural, it’s sick. This as a film about mental illness. It’s subjects need help.

]]> By: THE ZOO « OuteasY http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-31669 THE ZOO « OuteasY Sun, 13 May 2007 14:22:35 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-31669 [...] If you’re thinking “The Zoo” is going to provide this type of “insight,” then this is not the movie for you. Thankfully, for me, anyway, it’s not there. I caught a showing of this at Sundance in January, and was sorely disappointed in that this tragic story was somehow displaced and I left the theater wondering what mentally killed Kenneth Pinyan surely long prior to the death of his physical being. From reaction of the crowd in attendance, I do not believe I was alone in thought. Probably the best depiction of the whole mess was written in a story by Charles Mudede titled, “The Animal in You,” appearing in his column in Seattle’s paper, “The Stranger,” in late February, 2006. It’s too long to reprint here, but when you have time, hit the link and read - it is outstanding. Charles, who also was the screenwriter for “The Zoo,” superbly told the story in his article of the man, normal by day and polar opposite at night, and the “The Zoo” would have been the perfect “ride” as to the “why,” but I just didn’t see it. The following are excerpts from comments of review of Sundance from me and Charles on the /Film website: [...] […] If you’re thinking “The Zoo” is going to provide this type of “insight,” then this is not the movie for you. Thankfully, for me, anyway, it’s not there. I caught a showing of this at Sundance in January, and was sorely disappointed in that this tragic story was somehow displaced and I left the theater wondering what mentally killed Kenneth Pinyan surely long prior to the death of his physical being. From reaction of the crowd in attendance, I do not believe I was alone in thought. Probably the best depiction of the whole mess was written in a story by Charles Mudede titled, “The Animal in You,” appearing in his column in Seattle’s paper, “The Stranger,” in late February, 2006. It’s too long to reprint here, but when you have time, hit the link and read - it is outstanding. Charles, who also was the screenwriter for “The Zoo,” superbly told the story in his article of the man, normal by day and polar opposite at night, and the “The Zoo” would have been the perfect “ride” as to the “why,” but I just didn’t see it. The following are excerpts from comments of review of Sundance from me and Charles on the /Film website: […]

]]> By: outeasy http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-31524 outeasy Sun, 13 May 2007 10:27:06 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-31524 Charles~If you had stayed true to your account in "The Animal In You," (great piece) and given us a movie with some inkling into the mind of a man driven (no pun) to his death by this practice/fetish/cult (?), maybe I would have understood the film. Sure, sex with animals is rough subject, but who didn't know of this shocking event some two years ago? The disgusting video is still making the rounds online. I just left with the same, if not more questions as to - 'why?' I cannot believe there are an equal amount of people across America either mixing drinks or having 'stall sex' on the weekends, which too, might have been an interesting angle. But there again, I don't drink and never have been around a horse, so without an 'artists' insight, I'll trot along. Charles~If you had stayed true to your account in “The Animal In You,”
(great piece) and given us a movie with some inkling into the mind of a man
driven (no pun) to his death by this practice/fetish/cult (?), maybe I would have
understood the film. Sure, sex with animals is rough subject, but who didn’t
know of this shocking event some two years ago? The disgusting video is
still making the rounds online. I just left with the same, if not more questions as
to - ‘why?’ I cannot believe there are an equal amount of people across America
either mixing drinks or having ’stall sex’ on the weekends, which too, might
have been an interesting angle. But there again, I don’t drink and never have
been around a horse, so without an ‘artists’ insight, I’ll trot along.

]]> By: stands with the misunderstood http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-25419 stands with the misunderstood Fri, 04 May 2007 16:54:03 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-25419 I'm looking forward to this film. I would be a bit disappointed with the lack of clear beastily scenes but i am like them, i love horses. Hate me if you will but i really don't care. I’m looking forward to this film. I would be a bit disappointed with the lack of clear beastily scenes but i am like them, i love horses. Hate me if you will but i really don’t care.

]]> By: Critic is ill http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-19918 Critic is ill Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:56:19 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-19918 You actually wanted to see sex with animals? Sounds a little sick to me. The film may be poorly done, but to not like it purely because you did not get to get off watching sex with a horse makes me wonder about you and your mental abilities. There is depth and there is disgusting. Sounds like you wanted more of the latter. You actually wanted to see sex with animals? Sounds a little sick to me. The film may be poorly done, but to not like it purely because you did not get to get off watching sex with a horse makes me wonder about you and your mental abilities. There is depth and there is disgusting. Sounds like you wanted more of the latter.

]]> By: death to sundance http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-1192 death to sundance Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:43:16 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/01/25/sundance-zoo-movie-review/#comment-1192 We are all going to hell for this crap that is passed off as 'art', child rape scenes and bestiality, and this is called art! Whats next for Sundance documentry about the missunderstood men of NAMBLA? These are some of the most vile unatural things, yet they wish to portray themselves as 'artists' pushing the boundries to the cinematic audience. Just cause you have Verdi, playing in the background (instead the loud chants of Jerry! Jerry!) doesn't mean you are an artist! We are all going to hell for this crap that is passed off as ‘art’, child rape scenes and bestiality, and this is called art! Whats next for Sundance documentry about the missunderstood men of NAMBLA? These are some of the most vile unatural things, yet they wish to portray themselves as ‘artists’ pushing the boundries to the cinematic audience. Just cause you have Verdi, playing in the background (instead the loud chants of Jerry! Jerry!) doesn’t mean you are an artist!

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