Reminds me of the child soldiers who wear Tupac T-shirts.

Filmmaker Marcus Werner Hed eschews fictional narrative in favour of documenting Political Fashion as it is created – or perhaps as it destroys. His film ‘The Red Shoes’ will make you reconsider both the Hans Christian Anderson classic and the Moira Shearer movie forever.
View this blog entry >Started by Studio, 00:00 Wed 12 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 44 posts
Reminds me of the child soldiers who wear Tupac T-shirts.
From Vikram Kansara, 03:16 Wed 12 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 33 posts
I am really suprised this awesome film has drawn so few comments . I can only think that people are speachless at the correctness of its tone and message.
I think it is the best one yet.
Just what I hoped to see in this Political Fashion Project>
Fucking powerful!
That girl in the red top just swaggering her way through is such a incredible vision of a woman,terrifying as her walk is almost a fashion walk but she is blasting people away.Sort of makes some of Quentin Tarentinos characters pale into two dimensions.
Just imagine what that woman is really like.
From --1cal1--, 22:55 Thu 13 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 50 posts
' speechless' is mildly put ... it is HORRIFIC !! an sadly it is REALITY and it just proves the evil in us and our INABILITY to do something ... it goes beyond' fashion politic ' .... it makes Quentin Tarentinos characters look like Disney ' cartoons' ...as I see it ...
From Galileo's Universe, 11:17 Fri 14 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 1453 posts
I think that's a male, actually, if you mean the character with red material on their head.
From Mark Pavey, 02:30 Tue 25 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 14 posts
Nope, it's Black Diamond, one of the 'Generals' in the war in LIberia, she was the girl heading the command unit out of which the story of the red shoes comes.
Irma whom is the woman talking in this film and relaying the story has just finished writing Black Diamonds biography, she knows her really well and has spent a lot of time with her and her 'soldier girls'. So not a man at all, even though a lot of men in this war wore strange head-dresses such as wigs and similar so as to not to be killed by the bullets.
Thank you for putting that straight Mr whed.
From --1cal1--, 22:47 Tue 25 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 50 posts
That guy dancing at the end of the film must be in some sort of parallel universe,that is such a weird way to move. Many drugs I guess or maybe that is the appropriate response to that situation.Makes you think,its not how we are used to having war depicted in the media.
From harley, 16:03 Mon 17 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 86 posts
Best piece hands down. And along with the efforts by Fred Butler and House of Diehl, something I could watch twice
From avventura, 14:12 Wed 19 Mar 2008 | Profile +++++ | 5 posts
Yes it's tragic that a girl is raped and murdered.
But I don't believe you can blame her aspirations to consume on western media; she'd have done the same thing a 1000 years ago. She didn't want red shoes because of what she's seen in the media, she wanted them because they were unusual, attractive and attainable.