Word: devor
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...Unsettling precisely because it is more atmospheric than graphic, more romantic than journalistic, Zoo examines the culture of zoophiles, people with an erotic attraction to animals. Seattle filmmaker Robinson Devor tells the true story of "Mr. Hands," a 45-year-old man who died shortly after being anonymously dropped at an emergency room in rural Washington in 2005. Police investigating the case followed clues to a nearby horse farm, where they found buckets of videos of the man and others having sex with Arabian stallions. Mr. Hands' cause of death was a perforated colon. Because bestiality wasn't illegal...
...reenactments with actors and voiceover interviews with the dead man's zoophile friends, Devor picks up where the news stories left off. "A lot of people advised us not to do the film, artistically and from a business standpoint," says Devor, whose last movie, Police Beat, was a little-seen but critically lauded film in Sundance's 2005 dramatic competition. "But filmmakers investigate all sorts of subcultures and individuals who are clearly more evil than these...
...Devor studiously avoids judging the men in his film, depicting them as regular guys who hold down regular jobs and attend regular parties. No talking heads appear on camera to explain the psychological sources of zoophilia. The closest thing Zoo has to a moral guide is the woman charged with finding a new home for the dead man's horse, and even she, by the end, is compassionate. "Michael Moore's first movie was about a group of Nazis and they were having a picnic," says Devor. "The left was very p----- off at him because he didn't clearly...
...Asked who his audience might be when Zoo is released by ThinkFilm later this year, Devor rattles off an eclectic group: "Crazy art house lovers. 18- to 24-year-old guys. Conservatives who would condemn it." OK, so it's not the same crowd who will be racing the see Shrek the Third, but, as a friend of Devor's told him, 'Finally you made a commercial movie.'" Those curious about zoophilia may be disappointed by the, er, logistical questions that Zoo fails answer. But it won't be hard to find people curious about zoophila. You did read this...
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