Country:
USA
Recognizable Faces:
Some dude who looks just like Paul Auster
Directed By:
Robinson Devor
The name is Kenneth Pinyan is probably not going to ring any bell for you. You probably don't care that he was an engineer for Boeing and that he had a son he loved and an estranged wife. Touching portrait, sure. But those problems made Ken Pinyan normal. If I say "the Seattle horsefucker" then you'll probably know who I'm talking about. Most likely, you heard about that poor fellow who passed away from having intercourse with a stallion, enabling a law against zoophilia in Washington State. That guy was Ken Pinyan. No matter who he was and what his problems were, he will be remember as that guy who died by horse penis. I wanted to know more about that by watching ZOO. I wanted to learn about this "condition" and about how Ken Pinyan got himself this terrible death. While it's not a tasteless movie at all, ZOO didn't do a good job at saying anything pertinent on what could have been a great subject.
There are many questionable decisions that plague the movie. First, it's a docudrama. That means it's a documentary, but there are actors that play out how things went. It's something you see often on the History Channel. Robinson Devor goes out of his way to humanize the Enumclaw farm horsefucking crew (what? sorry I don't have a better name for them). They have all the playing field to themselves. They have ninety-five percent of the narration and lengthy scenes that are supposed to be gripping or something. I have in mind, a very long and corny scene where this weirdo, child-molester-type-looking guy is running in a freshly plowed field with a bucket full of CDs in his hand. I mean, how the fuck am I supposed to feel? Like "whatever, it's cool man. You're fucking horses and all. I respect that"?
This is an eighty minutes long movie and there isn't any psychologist interviewed. No sexual deviance expert, no doctors, no policemen, nothing. All of that, because it's a docudrama on the horsefuckers themselves. I understand Robinson Devor wanted to adopt a respectful stance, so he could get them to talk, but come on. Nobody right in their mind thinks this is a normal thing. None of these guys are well-balanced, fun-loving individuals. They're deeply troubled. There is this crazy scene where a woman comes to pick up the horse and take it away from his abusive lover (sic) and the horse is thrashing and spinning around. Horsefucker says: "Oh, she doesn't know anything about horses. She doesn't handle them like I do." Well, no shit Sherlock? Maybe if you didn't put your horse through this, it would be better behaved.
I know I have been saying that horrible word again and again. Horsefucking. But that's what it is. Those guys all say they need limited emotional contact and that they love the fact that horses don't talk after sex, that they don't know who Tolstoy is (one of them actually said that). Also, ZOO gives a bad name to farmers and country people. I know some, have some in my family and they are far from being lonely weirdos like ZOO portrays. They are nice, fun-loving and hard-working people that don't want anything to do with their animals. I still can't believe I sat through this. I've been watching a movie that kept telling me it's normal for certain people to love horses. Come on. Even anatomically, it's not. Kenneth Pinyan, a freakin' ENGINEER died because he couldn't figure out that a horse genitalia and a male rectum were far from being compatible. I'm sorry, but I can't feel bad for the guy. Oh, and NO , you don't see any actual horsefucking during ZOO.
SCORE: 20%
There are many questionable decisions that plague the movie. First, it's a docudrama. That means it's a documentary, but there are actors that play out how things went. It's something you see often on the History Channel. Robinson Devor goes out of his way to humanize the Enumclaw farm horsefucking crew (what? sorry I don't have a better name for them). They have all the playing field to themselves. They have ninety-five percent of the narration and lengthy scenes that are supposed to be gripping or something. I have in mind, a very long and corny scene where this weirdo, child-molester-type-looking guy is running in a freshly plowed field with a bucket full of CDs in his hand. I mean, how the fuck am I supposed to feel? Like "whatever, it's cool man. You're fucking horses and all. I respect that"?
This is an eighty minutes long movie and there isn't any psychologist interviewed. No sexual deviance expert, no doctors, no policemen, nothing. All of that, because it's a docudrama on the horsefuckers themselves. I understand Robinson Devor wanted to adopt a respectful stance, so he could get them to talk, but come on. Nobody right in their mind thinks this is a normal thing. None of these guys are well-balanced, fun-loving individuals. They're deeply troubled. There is this crazy scene where a woman comes to pick up the horse and take it away from his abusive lover (sic) and the horse is thrashing and spinning around. Horsefucker says: "Oh, she doesn't know anything about horses. She doesn't handle them like I do." Well, no shit Sherlock? Maybe if you didn't put your horse through this, it would be better behaved.
I know I have been saying that horrible word again and again. Horsefucking. But that's what it is. Those guys all say they need limited emotional contact and that they love the fact that horses don't talk after sex, that they don't know who Tolstoy is (one of them actually said that). Also, ZOO gives a bad name to farmers and country people. I know some, have some in my family and they are far from being lonely weirdos like ZOO portrays. They are nice, fun-loving and hard-working people that don't want anything to do with their animals. I still can't believe I sat through this. I've been watching a movie that kept telling me it's normal for certain people to love horses. Come on. Even anatomically, it's not. Kenneth Pinyan, a freakin' ENGINEER died because he couldn't figure out that a horse genitalia and a male rectum were far from being compatible. I'm sorry, but I can't feel bad for the guy. Oh, and NO , you don't see any actual horsefucking during ZOO.
SCORE: 20%