{"id":4069,"date":"2010-02-05T00:22:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T05:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2010-02-05T00:22:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T05:22:45","slug":"let-each-one-go-where-he-may-2009-ben-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4069","title":{"rendered":"Let Each One Go Where He May (2009, Ben Russell)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An obscure one from the <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3911\">decade lists<\/a>.  I read a write-up in Cinema Scope while standing in the airport and it sounded fascinating, but maybe it only seemed so in relation to my surroundings.  Watching it was dullsville.  I should&#8217;ve known &#8211; here&#8217;s the Toronto Film Fest&#8217;s writeup:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A film that both partakes in and dismantles traditional ethnography, opts for mystery and natural beauty over annotation and artifice, and employs unconventional storytelling as a means toward historical remembrance.  A rigorous, exquisite work with a structure at once defined and winding, the film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, in a rehearsal of the voyage undertaken by their ancestors, who escaped from slavery at the hands of the Dutch 300 years prior.  A path still travelled to this day, its changing topography bespeaks a diverse history of forced migration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See that word &#8220;rigorous&#8221;?  I&#8217;ve seen it before, and it means &#8220;dullsville&#8221;.  I&#8217;m betting that <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1111\">Reassemblage<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/895\">Wavelength<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/3509\">Jeanne Dielman<\/a><\/em> regularly get described as rigorous.  Although, I like Hollis Frampton and he is pretty rigorous, so it&#8217;s hard to say.<\/p>\n<p>Since the movie only has 13 shots over its 130 minutes, here&#8217;s a screenshot from each of them.<\/p>\n<p>1. washing up, setting some plants on fire<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone01.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>2. walking (rural)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone02.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>3. riding the bus listening to auto-tuned songs<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone03.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>4. walking (urban)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone04.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>5. mining\/wheelbarrow<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone05.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>6. panning for gold<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone06.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>7. loading the boat<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone07.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>8. on the boat<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone08.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>9. walking (town)\/sitting by river<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone09.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>10. walking through jungle &#8211; gunshot!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone10.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>11. more jungle: chainsaw and machete<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone11.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>12. costume festival<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone12.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>13. canoeing<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/leteachone13.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Katy says Suriname is in N.E. South America &#8211; good to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obscure one from the decade lists. I read a write-up in Cinema Scope while standing in the airport and it sounded fascinating, but maybe it only seemed so in relation to my surroundings. Watching it was dullsville. I should&#8217;ve known &#8211; here&#8217;s the Toronto Film Fest&#8217;s writeup: A film that both partakes in and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,1032,1031],"class_list":["post-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-ben-russell","tag-suriname"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","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=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4134,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}