{"id":11641,"date":"2016-12-29T21:00:46","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T03:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11641"},"modified":"2016-12-29T20:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T02:40:22","slug":"los-muertos-2004-lisandro-alonso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11641","title":{"rendered":"Los Muertos (2004, Lisandro Alonso)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A straightforward journey film.  Vargas is released from prison, then rides and walks and canoes to deliver a letter to his friend&#8217;s wife and to find his own daughter, slaughtering a goat on-camera along the way.<\/p>\n<p><em>Final moments alive for this goat:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/losmuertos2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d read that Alonso&#8217;s first three features were more realistic than the crazy-looking <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/10682\">Jauja<\/a><\/em> (also a journey movie where a solitary man looks for his daughter) and was afraid they&#8217;d be a drag to watch, but I needn&#8217;t have worried.  Wish the DVD had looked better, though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image16\/losmuertos1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Quint\u00c3\u00adn on the opening:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alonso went on location with a cameraman and shot a scene &#8211; actually, one long take &#8211; of the main character holding a knife in his hand, leaving behind the bodies of his dead brothers: a mysterious, intriguing sequence with sophisticated camera movements and a sense of tragedy.  The blood theme was there, as were the dead of the title.  It was a highly remarkable, virtuoso shot.  And a shot that made money.  Shown to foundations, producers, sales agents and TV buyers, this homeopathic sample allowed the movie to be finished.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A straightforward journey film. Vargas is released from prison, then rides and walks and canoes to deliver a letter to his friend&#8217;s wife and to find his own daughter, slaughtering a goat on-camera along the way. Final moments alive for this goat: I&#8217;d read that Alonso&#8217;s first three features were more realistic than the crazy-looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,477,629,2020,247],"class_list":["post-11641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-animal-slaughter","tag-argentina","tag-lisandro-alonso","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11672,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11641\/revisions\/11672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}