I get what EO was doing with its languorous, chaotic, random, and uneventful vignettes. A donkey-eye view of whatever random things happen around it that largely just represent little human stories and ways in which humans treat animals.

The flick follows this random donkey named EO. I think that’s pretty much the story. Sometimes he hangs with soccer hooligans, sometimes with criminals, sometimes circus performers, sometimes he escapes into the woods, sometimes he wanders around a town, sometimes he encounters other animals.

This isn’t a talking animal movie… the camera focuses on the donkey and we, the audience, are meant to interpret whatever its thinking about the mundane stuff around him. In any given situation, I imagine people might see the donkey as confused or frightened or bored. I vote bored and uninterested most of the time, leaving me bored and uninterested in return. This is a startlingly average animal to which we bring our human baggage.

I know there are greater themes at work… and a lot of the movie is more about the cinematic shots of often very average things. Great. Wonderful. I couldn’t find it in me to care. Some nice drone footage though… what that had to do with a bored donkey, I don’t know.

Score: 64