{"id":449784,"date":"2022-05-20T00:41:34","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that\/"},"modified":"2022-05-20T00:41:34","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T21:41:34","slug":"watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;EO&#8217; Review: Been There, Donkey That"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4138cb3e644\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4138cb3e644\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98EO_Review_Been_There_Donkey_That%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;EO&#8217; Review: Been There, Donkey That&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98EO_Review_Been_There_Donkey_That%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;EO&#8217; Review: Been There, Donkey That&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-eo-review-been-there-donkey-that\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98EO_Review_Been_There_Donkey_That%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;EO&#8217; Review: Been There, Donkey That&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98EO_Review_Been_There_Donkey_That%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;EO&#8217; Review: Been There, Donkey That&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Give an animal a name, and it becomes a lot more difficult to send it to the glue factory. But people don\u2019t stop using paste simply because they\u2019ve made an equine friend. Named for the animal it follows from owner to owner, through various hardships and across national borders, \u201cEO\u201d is a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species \u2014 as free labor, food and companions \u2014 as seen through the dewy, wide eyes of a donkey whom we come to adore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEO\u2019s\u201d inspiration is obvious. In Robert Bresson\u2019s 1966 \u201cAu Hasard Balthazar,\u201d two kids christened a newborn donkey in the film\u2019s opening minutes. By the end, when Balthazar sighed his last breath, audiences wept, such was the attachment they had formed. Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski reckons Bresson\u2019s relatively austere classic was the only time he shed a tear in the cinema. Now, at the age of 84, he unveils a movie intended to have the same effect on others. Though many will be moved, it is manipulation more than empathy that got them there.<\/p>\n<p>While \u201cEO\u201d is not a direct remake, it\u2019s certainly more than homage. Bresson\u2019s film was, among other things, a rejection of on-screen sentimentality. Five minutes in, the child who gave Balthazar his name dies, after which, the donkey repeatedly changes owners, an anonymous possession to whom only the audience (as opposed to the characters) seemed particularly attached. That same dynamic is true here, to a degree, except that Skolimowski romanticizes and partly anthropomorphizes the beast, giving him subjective shots and flashbacks, perhaps even dream sequences. (How else to explain the striking red filters and free-floating drone footage?)<\/p>\n<p>While Skolimowski and co-writer Ewa Piaskowska (his collaborator since \u201cFour Nights With Anna\u201d) present the endearing animal as innocence incarnate, p<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">ractically every scene serves to indict what foul custodians of the world men are<\/span>: There are violent anarchists and vile factories, crude smugglers and cruel fox fur farmers. The director takes some bold risks, but it can be confusing at times trying to figure out what\u2019s h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ening, or how the poor donkey got from one scene to the next (he ambles into a tunnel and emerges in a field, or walks out the front gate of an Italian villa straight into a slaughterhouse).<\/p>\n<p>Unlike Bresson\u2019s film, which begins at birth, the donkey is full-grown at the outset and already has a name, EO, flashed on screen amid the strobe lights of a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ing circus performance. EO is well looked after here \u2014 and downright adored by Kasandra (Sandra Drzymalska), the Polish dancer who performs alongside him in the ring. She caresses his mane and plants kisses in his beard, feeding him carrot muffins on special occasions. What more to life is there than this?<\/p>\n<p>Then a crowd of animal rights protesters appears, accusing the circus of \u201ctorture,\u201d and demanding that it im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely cease using live animals. EO is carted away, the protesters thinking themselves victorious \u2014 but little do they realize that his life will be downhill from here. (As it happens, the same thing is happening in France today. Activists have demanded that certain wild animals no longer be used in film and TV shoots, so the trainers are obliged to put them down, as they can no longer afford to care for the creatures.)<\/p>\n<p>This logistical complication bears mentioning since Skolimowski and company clearly made the film with live donkeys \u2014 six of them, to be precise \u2014 and while the crew took great care to respect the animals, one day such a movie may not be permitted at all. For now, no convincing equivalent for real animals exists, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> with virtual substitutes feel increasingly like live-action cartoons. Of course, there\u2019s good reason for on-set safety guidelines, as a movie like \u201cThe Adventures of Milo &amp; Otis\u201d made clear. Twenty kittens were reportedly killed during that film, and another was dropped over a cliff to get a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this movie wouldn\u2019t be the same if EO were CG, and part of its magic (for the film <em>is<\/em> effective, even if it was made with a heavy hoof) comes from the way we project human emotions on its largely silent protagonist. Skolimowski uses other tricks to communicate the mood, such as Pawe\u0142 Mykietyn\u2019s unambiguous electronic score and a dizzying array of trick shots, some from EO\u2019s point of view. In one deliberately ironic scene, the donkey gazes out the window to see a herd of wild horses running free. Is that envy we\u2019re meant to see on his face?<\/p>\n<p>Writing for Cahiers du Cin\u00e9ma, Jean-Luc Godard famously described \u201cAu Hasard Balthazar\u201d as giving audiences \u201cthe world in an hour and a half,\u201d and though Skolimowski rejects so many of Bresson\u2019s artistic conceits (starting with the way he wants a donkey that acts, rather than an ambivalent beast), he shares that goal. Both directors use the animal to comment on human nature, though Skolimowski is more didactic, including shots of deforestation and a massive manmade dam, whereas Bresson invited a certain ambiguity. Here, characters are instantly forgotten, their stories abandoned. One quite shockingly has his throat slit without explanation. Through it all, EO remembers only his circus friend.<\/p>\n<p>In theory, the film\u2019s scenes could be arranged in almost any order, with cameos along the way for Isabelle Huppert as a plate-smashing countess and Lorenzo Zurzolo as a prodigal son\/priest who begs EO\u2019s forgiveness for all the kilos of salami he\u2019s eaten. What is it about EO that brings out the best in some people and the worst in others? And what would have constituted a happy ending? All animals die. But it\u2019s a lot more tragic when we know their names.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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