Review of The Red Shoes

Saw it for the first time when I was in college. I hated ballet then. After that I was hooked to finding out more. Like so many other great movies, you find more depths every time. There is a fairytale-real world quality sort of like what "The Wizard of Oz" created. Vicki is such a great character because her background could make her a tremendous snob and she is anything but. Moira Shearer has a sort of china doll face that could not have been more perfect. No movie has ever been as colorful and hypnotizing. The screenplay is brilliant; meloddrama, at times, just like the people who work in the arts, and that is what makes this one so much fun.