[SPOILER ] about that standing [SPOILER]

i read some really WEAK "interpretations" of the whole chimp thing: wild animals cant be tamed. same at the THING in this film, when he tried to use in a show and it blanked all the blanked and blanked them.
still, felt worthless to the overall plot to me, and only made the film too long

It's quite significant in several ways. The whole theme of the film is the behavior/customs of wild creatures and when humans don't give them their space. The shoe is an object Jupe fixated on because it was so bizarre, a 1 in a billion occurrence out of a situation of pure chaos, or a bad miracle. The fixation on the tablecloth and shoe is what saved him from looking the chimp in the eye and being interpreted as a threat. Further than that, it's significant to Jupe, because it's tied to some kind of fantasy of taming a dangerous animal or having a special connection or ability, I'm not really sure. The shoe I see as more of a perspective thing, it's probably leaning against another object, but to Jupe it just looks like it's standing on its own. I loved this movie btw...

im not not doing it. it's on you to waste your time reading or not, not me to have to change anything :P :) :D