Yes, this is a question that the film also asks. The title comes from an oral history about slaves that escaped from a set of pretty terrible conditions. However, for the Gods to say “Let each one go where he may” to the mortals who have already been captured, brought across the Ocean and enslaved on a plantation, this is already a horribly restricted set of possibilities for anybody to deal with. I always think about the title as having to do more with free will than anything else but, of course, that free will also has to do with how the audience feels about watching somebody walk for two and a half hours, how the subjects feel about being produced in this particular way. The question of control is critically important and the presence of the Gods is meant to address it : if there are Gods who can free people then there are Gods who can determine what the people’s fate will be. I suppose this could be said about ethnographers who prescribe an overly determined reading of cultures – but both of these are clearly false propositions. The question of free will, in relation to Existence and culture, is a lot more complicated than any predetermined system.Maudite Bénédicte, comment tu traduirais ça ?

valpi a dit

le 06/12/2012 à 00:29

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Bon anni titou et bisous à Tagada Cash et Lenincrad qui lisent ce topic.

Tagada Cash a dit

le 06/12/2012 à 00:30

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Bonsoir Valpi.

NaNaeL a dit

le 06/12/2012 à 00:32

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Ça fait un peu nom de porno, Tagada Cash.

valpi a dit

le 06/12/2012 à 00:33

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C'est peut-être la soeur de Tabatha.

NaNaeL a dit

le 06/12/2012 à 00:38

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Sinon, tu peux te présenter avant, si tu penses que c'est trop tôt.