{"id":329,"date":"2007-05-04T21:16:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T05:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/05\/04\/zoo-men-who-love-horses-too-much\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T21:16:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-05T05:16:52","slug":"zoo-men-who-love-horses-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/zoo-men-who-love-horses-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoo: Men Who Love Horses Too much"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"zoo.jpg\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/zoo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image330\" height=\"96\" alt=\"zoo.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/zoo.jpg?fit=640%2C96\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new documentary called \u201cZoo\u201d sounds too preposterous to be for real, but it\u2019s not a joke. The work of someone named Robertson Devor,&nbsp;\u00a0 its subject is bestiality (whose practitioners call themselves zoophiles.)<\/p>\n<p>Based on several <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/zoo\/\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a>, the film sounds like a demented satire of NAMLA , but by all accounts, it is an effort to depict a taboo subculture without making judgments. It is described as visually impressionistic and arresting, with a moody score reminiscent of Philip Glass. It was inspired by an incident that took place in Seattle a few years ago: A 45 year old man died after having sex with a horse, observed and videotaped by two like-minded friends.<\/p>\n<p>Call me intolerant, but guys who get together to mate with Arabian stallions are not okay, and don\u2019t have a case, period. But this film allows their whining voices to be heard. \u201cIt\u2019s much like you love your wife and kids,\u201d one zoo guy explains. Uh huh.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not gonna be able to ask them about the latest Madonna album,\u201d another one notes, describing his relationship with horses. \u201cThey\u2019re not gonna know the difference between Tolstoy and Keats. It\u2019s a very simple, plain kind of world, and for the moment you can kind of switch off.\u201d Hm. This sounds like most of the guys I went out with before I got married. But they were all bipeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need a high level of interaction, whether it be human or otherwise,\u201d says another horse-lover, not unlike the guys my best friend keeps meeting in bars. It\u2019s the \u201cotherwise\u201d that\u2019s kind of, um, fucked up.<\/p>\n<p>If the zoo guys&nbsp;\u00a0seem oblivious to the animals\u2019 feelings and dignity, one of them assures the filmmaker that the horses \u201care happy to participate.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019re hittin\u2019 on <em>you<\/em>!\u201d declares another.<\/p>\n<p>Some reviews of this film are amazingly sympathetic. It\u2019s classy, it\u2019s lyrical, bla bla bla. One calls it \u201cunexpectedly troubling.\u201d Goodness!&nbsp;\u00a0 There\u2019s a reviewer who needs a vacation.<\/p>\n<p>I must say, I am almost tempted to go and see \u201cZoo\u201d which just opened at a popular art-house theater in my city. But I\u2019m the type who yells stuff at the TV. I don\u2019t think I could sit through the screening without laughing hysterically, or at least shouting an impassioned \u201cAs if!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new documentary called \u201cZoo\u201d sounds too preposterous to be for real, but it\u2019s not a joke. The work of someone named Robertson Devor,&nbsp;\u00a0 its subject is bestiality (whose practitioners call themselves zoophiles.) Based on several reviews, the film sounds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/zoo-men-who-love-horses-too-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,9,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-5j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}