Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

EO

 EO
type
TVTItem
 EO
label
EO
 EO
page
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/EO
 EO
comment
EO is a 2022 film from Poland directed by Jerzy Skolimowski.The protagonist is EO, a donkey (the title and so presumably the donkey's name is always capitalized, "EO"). EO starts out as an animal in a circus, where it apparently performs in an act with a human named Kasandra. Kasandra loves and cherishes EO, but the circus apparently isn't doing well, and EO is confiscated for non-payment of debt, as are other animals at the circus.That starts a long odyssey for poor EO, as the donkey wanders from place to place, getting put to work drawing a cart at a stable for racehorses, being used in an animal farm petting zoo, and going on and on. EO gets s full dose of man's cruelty to animals, like when EO himself is abused, or when EO witnesses a wolf shot by hunters.Isabelle Huppert appears near the end as an unnamed countess who briefly encounters EO.Has nothing to do with Captain EO.
 EO
fetched
2024-01-28T14:30:00Z
 EO
parsed
2024-01-28T14:30:00Z
 EO
isPartOf
DBTropes
 EO / int_423f5a19
type
Killed Offscreen
 EO / int_423f5a19
comment
Killed Offscreen: EO is employed at a ranch where foxes in cages are turned into fox fur. The killing of the foxes by electrocution isn't shown, but the buzz of electricity can be heard offscreen.
 EO / int_423f5a19
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_423f5a19
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_423f5a19
 EO / int_44bed11d
type
Stubborn Mule
 EO / int_44bed11d
comment
Stubborn Mule: EO in the early scene where he refuses to pull Vasil the circus owner's cart. This leads Vito to start whipping EO which leads Kasandra to come charging in and confront Vasil.
 EO / int_44bed11d
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_44bed11d
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_44bed11d
 EO / int_4885c04b
type
Road Trip Plot
 EO / int_4885c04b
comment
Road Trip Plot: A road movie starring a donkey, traveling from place to place, buffeted by forces beyond its control.
 EO / int_4885c04b
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_4885c04b
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_4885c04b
 EO / int_4e3d253b
type
Downer Ending
 EO / int_4e3d253b
comment
Downer Ending: EO wanders into a line of cattle at a slaughterhouse, and is slaughtered along with them.
 EO / int_4e3d253b
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_4e3d253b
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_4e3d253b
 EO / int_52c3c556
type
Blade-of-Grass Cut
 EO / int_52c3c556
comment
Blade-of-Grass Cut: The sequence where EO wanders through the forest, basically the only time where he is free, is introduced by extreme closeups of a frog swimming in a stream, a spider spinning a web, and an owl perched on a tree branch.
 EO / int_52c3c556
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_52c3c556
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_52c3c556
 EO / int_53b84f6d
type
Proscenium Reveal
 EO / int_53b84f6d
comment
Proscenium Reveal: The opening scene is a very surrealistic one in which a woman caresses a donkey while both are bathed in a red light, all under a strobe effect. It's revealed to be part of a circus act.
 EO / int_53b84f6d
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_53b84f6d
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_53b84f6d
 EO / int_53c9fc92
type
Flashback
 EO / int_53c9fc92
comment
Flashback: There are occasional brief flashbacks, apparently EO's memories, of its time at the circus with its loving trainer Kasandra.
 EO / int_53c9fc92
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_53c9fc92
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_53c9fc92
 EO / int_5ce7dbb9
type
Central Theme
 EO / int_5ce7dbb9
comment
Central Theme: Man's cruelty to and abuse of animals. Sometimes it can be mild, like when a beautiful white horse is pampered but also kept cooped up in a stable. Sometimes it's severe, like when foxes are electrocuted for their fur, wolves are shot (and whimper in pain as they slowly die), and EO is brutally beaten by drunken soccer hooligans.
 EO / int_5ce7dbb9
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_5ce7dbb9
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_5ce7dbb9
 EO / int_71c5c7df
type
Wolves Always Howl at the Moon
 EO / int_71c5c7df
comment
Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: Wolves are howling at the moon when EO enters the forest. This is not to establish a sense of fear like it usually is in movies, but to set up the end of the scene where hunters intrude into the peace of the forest and shoot the wolves.
 EO / int_71c5c7df
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_71c5c7df
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_71c5c7df
 EO / int_7eccbb3d
type
Shower Scene
 EO / int_7eccbb3d
comment
Shower Scene: The equine equivalent thereof, as the beautiful white horse is lovingly washed and shampooed in the stable, in a scene that emphasizes the physical beauty of the horse, while poor EO watches.
 EO / int_7eccbb3d
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_7eccbb3d
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_7eccbb3d
 EO / int_7ee61bec
type
Mature Animal Story
 EO / int_7ee61bec
comment
Mature Animal Story: A definitely not-for-kids story about a donkey that suffers from, is expoited by, and eventually is killed by humans.
 EO / int_7ee61bec
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_7ee61bec
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_7ee61bec
 EO / int_84df9a79
type
Second-Face Smoke
 EO / int_84df9a79
comment
Second-Face Smoke: Kasandra screams at Vasil for whipping EO. His only response is to blow the smoke from his cigarette into her face.
 EO / int_84df9a79
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_84df9a79
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_84df9a79
 EO / int_90e31482
type
Laser-Guided Karma
 EO / int_90e31482
comment
Laser-Guided Karma: At least one human pays for abusing animals. The worker at the fox fur ranch is kicked in the head by EO, and apparently killed (it's ambiguous but the camera appears to catch the man staring sightlessly upward.
 EO / int_90e31482
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_90e31482
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_90e31482
 EO / int_916c72b3
type
Rule of Symbolism
 EO / int_916c72b3
comment
Rule of Symbolism: How do we know that humanity's abuse of animals is like The Holocaust? Because EO wanders through a forest that is growing over an old Jewish cemetery, that's how. (About half of the six million people murdered in the Holocaust were Polish Jews. 90-95% of Polish Jewry was killed.)
 EO / int_916c72b3
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_916c72b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_916c72b3
 EO / int_98bfd1ec
type
White Stallion
 EO / int_98bfd1ec
comment
White Stallion: The beautiful white horse that is kept at a stabes where EO is employed as a draft animal. The message of course is that even beautiful race horses are abused and exploited: the white horse is pampered and groomed but is also kept locked up in a stable and forced to pose in photos with human fashion models.
 EO / int_98bfd1ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_98bfd1ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_98bfd1ec
 EO / int_9d12bbc1
type
Foreshadowing
 EO / int_9d12bbc1
comment
Foreshadowing: There are a couple of comments about how sometimes donkey meat goes into salami. The Downer Ending has EO wandering into a line of cows at a slaughterhouse, and getting slaughtered along with them.
 EO / int_9d12bbc1
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_9d12bbc1
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_9d12bbc1
 EO / int_a8aba532
type
Football Hooligans
 EO / int_a8aba532
comment
Football Hooligans: EO wanders up to the site of a soccer match, and winds up being briefly, informally adopted by fans of the winning team, taken to a victory party and being fed beer. Then angry goons who support the losing team burst into the party carrying clubs, send the fans of the other team running, and beat EO half to death.
 EO / int_a8aba532
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_a8aba532
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_a8aba532
 EO / int_ad7a381d
type
P.O.V. Cam
 EO / int_ad7a381d
comment
P.O.V. Cam: Some shots are slightly out of focus and with a Fish-Eye Lens effect to suggest EO's point of view, like when it breaks out of a crude pen in an effort to chase after Kasandra, or when it wanders through the trees in a forest.
 EO / int_ad7a381d
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_ad7a381d
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_ad7a381d
 EO / int_b869b5b1
type
Color Motif
 EO / int_b869b5b1
comment
Color Motif: Various scenes throughout are shot with a red filter, starting with the opening scene where EO is performing in a circus with Kasandra. The color red keeps popping up, like the scene where EO wanders through a forest and up to a windmill, only for a bird killed by the windmill to crash to the ground right in front of him. Some scenes associate the color red with violence to animals, like after EO is beaten by the soccer hooligans or the aforementioned window scene. Others seen more random, like when Kasandra is bathed in the red light of a brake signal after the last time she sees EO, or when Mateo the truck driver has his cab lit with a red light.
 EO / int_b869b5b1
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_b869b5b1
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_b869b5b1
 EO / int_bb36c953
type
Sliding Scale of Animal Cast
 EO / int_bb36c953
comment
Sliding Scale of Animal Cast: Category 4, "animal cast with humans as major supporting characters." The film follows EO the donkey throughout, as it interacts with various humans, starting with Kasandra the circus performer and including others such as Mateo the truck driver who briefly adopts EO.
 EO / int_bb36c953
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_bb36c953
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_bb36c953
 EO / int_d60bc4a0
type
Longing Look
 EO / int_d60bc4a0
comment
Longing Look: Well it isn't really a longing look because we're talking about a donkey. But one sequence has EO, being hauled in a truck, looking out. There's a shot of horses in the field that EO is passing, running free and wild. Then the camera cuts back to EO, still looking out.
 EO / int_d60bc4a0
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_d60bc4a0
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_d60bc4a0
 EO / int_dd8deee1
type
Xenofiction
 EO / int_dd8deee1
comment
Xenofiction: A realistic story that adopts the POV of a donkey on its wanderings.
 EO / int_dd8deee1
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_dd8deee1
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_dd8deee1
 EO / int_f9bc2937
type
Laser Sight
 EO / int_f9bc2937
comment
Laser Sight: EO is in a clearing in the forest at night, when a bunch of laser sights suddenly appear. At one point the laser sights glide over EO—but the hunters aren't there to shoot donkeys. They're after wolves, and they shoot them.
 EO / int_f9bc2937
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_f9bc2937
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_f9bc2937
 EO / int_name
type
ItemName
 EO / int_name
comment
 EO / int_name
featureApplicability
1.0
 EO / int_name
featureConfidence
1.0
 EO
hasFeature
EO / int_name
 EO / int_name
itemName
EO

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 EO
hasFeature
Equine Fiction / int_1b9ff184
 EO
hasFeature
Films of the 2020s / int_1b9ff184
 EO
hasFeature
Football Hooligans / int_1b9ff184
 EO
hasFeature
Laser Sight / int_1b9ff184
 EO
hasFeature
Stubborn Mule / int_1b9ff184
 EO
hasFeature
Xenofiction / int_1b9ff184