I've often thought that the Sundance Film Festival is a showplace for all that is envelope-pushingly awful in Hollywood. At least one of this year's entries seems to confirm that opinion. Zoo is a documentary about bestiality in general and a Washington man who died in 2005 after having sex with a horse in specific. In an article I read, the director states:

"A lot of people looked at me as if I was an exploitative person, dredging up something for profit, and that bothered me. I was certainly asked many times, often with a wrinkled brow, 'Why are you making this film?' It was something I did resent; I thought artists had the opportunity to explore anything."

His last statement sums things up for me, both for Hollywood and for our culture at large. Explore anything, no limits, no moral boundaries.