Who has seen the movie Equus?

It's taken from a Peter Schaffer play and is directed by Sidney Lumet, year 1977.
The story is about a boy, his relationship with horses and a psychiatrist. Here's a short synopsis (taken from amazon website):

I've seen this movie last friday, and I'm still thinking about it. It was 1 AM, and I was very tired after an aardwark week. However, I put on the DVD... after more than 2 hours I was still there, eyes glued to the screen...

It mainly talks about love towards horses, youth problems and religion, all mixed together. There are some beautiful scenes but also crude ones (the scene where the boy is blinding horses is really disturbing, although there are dummies instead of real horses). It poses questions about "normality", gnosis and moral. It left me SO troubled that after a week I'm still thinking about it, loving some aspects and hating some others.

I think the point of view of the psychiatrist, at the end of the movie, it's the key: which life is better? His one ("normal" but full of frustration and nonsenses) or Alan's (full of direct contact with god, but obviously far from "normality") one?

It's not exactly a movie about zoophilia but I've never seen anything like that, talking about man/animal relationship at such deep level.

Anybody has seen this movie? What do you think?

Haven't seen it, but I thought this was amusing :lol:

Yes the movie is very disturbing. I saw the play many years ago and likewise read the printed version as well. Wich is more disturbing is that the whole thing is "loosely" based off of a real life incident from back in the 60s. Get the book on it and it explains the whole thing in the start of the book.
Anyhow, I saw the movie when I was a teenager and it kinda effected me in many ways: By the time I saw the movie I have long been having my "excursions" with the horses late at night and in many ways it seemed to dominate my life in a religious sort of way. After seeing the movie I thought I was kinda going off the deep-end and thought to myself "maybe I should stop all this horse humping business". Well, that lasted an all but one month, but put the premise of the movie in the back of my mind as a self moral teaching; well, maybe the draw of Equuis is my religeon, but certainly should not run my life, but I'm not going to change myself ethier.
But in all, its only a play/ movie, and a good one. But that all what it is!