The Lead Shoes Response

The Lead Shoes started out having two simultaneous lines of action. One, a girl playing hopscotch, tossing a stone and hopping down the sidewalk, only to turn around toss the stone again and hop back down the sidewalk the other way. This repeated and cut into the other line of action. The second line of action involves a woman and a man dressed in an old deep-sea diving suit. They dance around on the beach as the waves wash up around their feet. As the film goes on, the man in the diving suit becomes unresponsive and the woman resorts to pulling him back to her home. When I was watching this film, I could literally feel the back-breaking struggle of the woman as she seemingly would never reach her destination with this huge burden. The film had me thinking that this woman was trying to reconcile a lost love, but the man was resisting. The shot where she opens the head of the diving suit only to find that it is filled with rats was the shot that remained in my mind long after viewing. It got me wondering if we really know the people that we spend so much time caring for.