Erotic Footwear
Why is it when I always see movies about transvestites, cross-dressers, or drag queens, I’m with my friends Kate and Paul?
The other night, in their continuing effort to educate me to the movies of the world (I am not very “well-watched”, if that is the right term), we had a viewing of the funky-footwear-as-a-business film, Kinky Boots. Keep your shoes on, here goes a review:
This book of erotic footwear starts out like any typical British movie does: Slowly. If you can make it past the first, say, 15 minutes, you’re golden. I now appreciate this style of filmmaking although that wasn’t always the case, as it was hard to keep my eyelids open that long when I was younger. Nowadays, I try to interpret what the director had in mind with those scenes dragging by.
Slight Spoilers Follow:
The story revolves around a son who inherits the family business from his old man — a shoe factory. Little does he know, however, that business is bad and eventually he’s forced to cut people from the shifts to save money and gets pretty knee-deep in despair about it.
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He ends up rescuing a drag queen being beaten up in the alley by some thugs one night and notices that his/her boots are broken; he notices that they don’t hold up to the weight of a man, so he proposes to make showy boots for men dressing like ladies.
Spoilers End
The movie was really very well done; nothing terribly unique in the storyline, but the acting was quite good and the dialogue was well done. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen both Joel Edgerton and Chiwetel Ejiofor in something else before, but I can’t think of what, and their bios on IMDB don’t give me any clues. Probably just, “around”, who knows. Sarah-Jane Potts was pretty cute, however.
On a scale of 1-to-10, I’d give it an 8.3 for a movie that’s very entertaining and good for a watch when you want a good movie without special effects pushing it along.
