{"id":30,"date":"2016-04-27T03:49:16","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T03:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-04-26T03:50:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:50:33","slug":"review-zoo-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/review-zoo-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Zoo (2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-32 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo-300x156.jpeg\" alt=\"zoo\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo-300x156.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/zoo.jpeg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><b>Directed by Robinson Devor<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Bestiality. An act many people can scarcely comprehend how, never mind why, it&#8217;s done. But when a man died in 2003 after having sex with a horse, the quiet rural town of Enumclaw, Wash., was confronted with the trans-species taboo. In an elegiac and perturbing exploration of the events, documentary-maker Devor mixes re-enactment and audio interviews with two communities: the zoophiles, who cannot understand why they are shunned, and the families and friends that struggled to understand them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What emerges is that society, while it condemns bestiality, has no idea how to deal with it \u2013 legally, morally, or practically. There&#8217;s no garish exploitation: instead, <i>Zoo<\/i> searches for the line between people who love animals in socially acceptable ways and those society condemns.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=qf_sp_asin_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=rmwhittakerco-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B000Q66QFQ&amp;asins=B000Q66QFQ&amp;linkId=TQNXIAOXJVW4CIZK&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by Robinson Devor Bestiality. An act many people can scarcely comprehend how, never mind why, it&#8217;s done. But when a man died in 2003 after having sex with a horse, the quiet rural town of Enumclaw, Wash., was confronted with the trans-species taboo. In an elegiac and perturbing exploration of the events, documentary-maker Devor &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/review-zoo-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Review: Zoo (2007)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[8,9,23,26,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rmwhittaker.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}