OK, I realize the villain had the girls put on high heels to "enhance" their feminine appeal. I didn't put much emphasis on them being white. But when the victim later found a pic of a bunch of the other girls, all in white heels, I wondered if there is something more to the "white heels" vs just any other color? Am I reading too much into this or is there some fetish thing I'm not aware of?
shareWell, there are shoe fetishists, but I think there's more to it than that. The women's shoes appear to be the only thing the girls are allowed to wear. It's an article of femininity their captors control, & the women left entirely exposed. It's an demonstration of power. The women can wear the shoe's, but nothing else.
To me, that makes the picture even more disturbing, aside from the fact their being physically abused. These sex traffickers are particularly misogynistic, targeting young, pretty women for rape & degradation.
Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
Thanx: That's a good analysis. I'm probably trying to read more into it that is really necessary. I found it interesting that they were all white shoes but in the group picture there were some different styles. The all white is possibly symbolic of virginal purity or, the people making the film ran down to shoe carnival and purchased a bunch of shoes that were on sale and they just happened to be white. HA!
The misogynistic theme doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother other people. It's just a movie and it's simply another storyline. Capturing and controlling attractive young women is, I'm sure, a common dark fantasy and this film certainly plays to that concept. At least they trafficers appreciate a quality femme and they aren't slaughtering them like is done in so many gore-fest films.
Thanx again for your thoughts on the shoes and such.
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Megan
"The misogynistic theme doesn't bother me as much as it seems to bother other people."
So you're saying that the movie claims that hurting women is good? is that what you think the director wants to get across? Because otherwise, if the villains of the movie are the guys that capture the women, then I fail to see a misogynic theme here.
It's the suppliers trademark.
shareI'll say one thing the fact that this movie is real and not fiction makes me sick to my stomach that people do this kind of thing .
sharethe movie is not real.. and *beep* like this does not happen. yeah, there are human traffickers but it's not like this at all.
shareI doubt there's a moral codex for human traffickers, enlighten me if you know otherwise.
shareWell, first of all, if there would be like in the movie they would be business men, weighing money over the risk of being sentenced to life or executed - and the risk of being caught. It seems like a poor deal. Second of all, there hasnt been any cases like this since trafficking is so much easier to do and more legal to just put the women on a plane and keep them in a financial dependent and abusive situation. Most victims of trafficking are asian women coming from very poor families.
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