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.
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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.
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--1cal1--
at 22:55 Thu 13 Mar 2008
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' 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 ...
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Galileo's Universe
at 11:17 Fri 14 Mar 2008
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I think that's a male, actually, if you mean the character with red material on their head.
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Mark Pavey
at 02:30 Tue 25 Mar 2008
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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.
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whed
at 22:40 Tue 25 Mar 2008
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Thank you for putting that straight Mr whed.
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--1cal1--
at 22:47 Tue 25 Mar 2008
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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.
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harley
at 16:03 Mon 17 Mar 2008
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Best piece hands down. And along with the efforts by Fred Butler and House of Diehl, something I could watch twice
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avventura
at 14:12 Wed 19 Mar 2008
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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.
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AA
at 10:43 Fri 21 Mar 2008
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Of all the fashion items that were sort after, it was a pair of shiny 'red shoes'! Isn't it this, that gives this film even further depth - that the story of 'The Red Shoes' leads the wearer to a tragic end. In the 1948 film version of Hans Christian Andersen's original fairy tale, a ballet dancer performs to self-destruction and where that was just a fairy-tale - this is a real life tragedy. That fashion either highlights or is the cause of this real life situation gives the film even further strength.
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Sam Murray
at 18:51 Thu 24 Apr 2008
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It's amazing how people love to de-com-part-mental-lize the concept of fashion and politics...
I personally think that one the reason may be because the majority under estimate how political the media is, and this is where the nearly insignificant microcosm, only if reported in a lovely but sad story like this short documentary..
Do people get to see how the minds of men are under siege, for the price to feel a part of 'IT', being in fashion..
Politicianc / Classist
Fashion / Classist
Brilliant film..though!
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Kofi
at 16:17 Mon 05 May 2008
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Reminds me of the child soldiers who wear Tupac T-shirts.
By Vikram Kansara at 03:16 Wed 12 Mar 2008
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