I have always felt that the story of Little Red Shoes is very uncomfortable: feet that were cut off, feet that were dripping with blood like red dancing shoes, a girl abandoned by God, red dancing shoes that jumped into the depths of the forest alone
... There are also a pair of bright red leather shoes in Ring Finger], but the original book "The Specimen of the Ring Finger" actually says black leather shoes; apart from the tension of the picture, I think it may have something to do with this series of red shoes stories: bright red Colored shoes can always take away your soul.
And back to [Hong Lingyan], I think such tragedies are often tragedies unique to the art world—and how beautifully this movie describes that world. Cold, dazzling, so charming, but at the cost of your whole life.
It's almost like a deal between Faust and Mephistopheles.
Such deals are repeated in literature, as in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
How much life are you willing to give in exchange for a moment of beauty, wisdom, and talent?
"Notes on Nijinsky" is a notebook left by Russian ballet dancer Vatslav Nijinsky. This man is a talented ballet dancer who seems to have been caressed by the ballet god, brilliant, deviant, beautiful and sensitive. He was once the ban of the head of the dance troupe, but he was naive enough to marry a wife because he was a free body... So he was banned and exiled in an all-round way, and he went crazy to death in his later years.
Like this, whether it is fortunate or unfortunate, no one can tell. After all, being born in this world, it is often not "how much you are willing to give in exchange", but "how much you can exchange for what you give".
So, if someone hands me a pair of red shoes one day, will I take them?
I really don't know that at all.
Fortunately, I never even got the chance to make this decision, haha.
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