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Zoo un film de Robinson Devor

Catherine the Great. Caligula. Marlon Brando in The Missouri Breaks. Okay, okay, but it is extremely hard (pun sort of intended) to take a film such as this seriously while writing about it. Man sees horse. Man loves horse. Man dies from perforated colin. Wow. If I hadn't seen the reports on CNN I would have thought Robinson Devor had made the whole shabang up. But that is not what Robinson Devor does. His last film, the blueishy sublime Police Beat, took actual police reports and fashioned them into one of the most intriguing films of recent memory. This time he again takes actual police reports and fashions, just as tenderly as last, a story of a group of lonely(?) men who bond a friendship around their love for horses. Now we are not talking the kind of love one normally sees between cowboy and mount in the westerns of our youth. This ain't your daddy's Lone Ranger. But one still wonders at the supposed abuse these animals underwent (one of them was actually gelded just in case these men, or others like them, ever came wandering back to the farm). How exactly does one "force" a stallion to mount a naked man and ride him like he was Kemo Sabe's bitch? One must at least take a moment to ask whether these horses were actually abuse in the first place. Sounds to me like they got the better end of the deal - except for that one poor bastard that got his balls chopped to bits. Ah well, a man does, I suppose, what a man needs to do, and too I suppose does a horse. It certainly will make me look at Roy Rogers a little differently from now on. [05/22/07]

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