It's my sister's 21st birthday today so I've been thinking a lot about movies about sisterhood. In Her Shoes was the first that came to mind. There's a wonderful moment in the movie when Toni Collette talks about *spoiler alert* shoes.
Bear with me.
Her closet is full of shoes that have never been worn. In any other movie about women this obsession would justified because she's a *shudder* shopaholic or some kind of superficial Sex and the City girl. In this movie however, the shoe obsession is explained with some rather insightful writing by Susannah Grant.
Shoes. OMG. Shoes.
Toni Collette's character buys lots and lots of shoes because as a woman who has lost weight and put on weight all her life, naturally, she finds clothes shopping to be a terrible strain but "shoes always fit." It is a line delivered by Collette with such sincerity and honesty and like she is speaking to my own experience.
It's one of those moments in a movie that stays with you because you totally relate. I often find clothes shopping to be a soul-destroying experience. There's usually nothing in my size or nothing to flatter my shape. Shoes is that one thing you can depend on. Your shoe size never fluctuates.
It's fitting, pardon the pun, that a movie about two sisters who learn to relate and emphasize with each other would use shoes as a metaphor. "Never judge a man until you have walked a mile in their shoes."
Sorry, guys, I am being so corny and sappy. It must be Xmas. I honestly do love that moment though. Maybe it's because I have got so much enjoyment from shoe shopping recently. Those of you have seen my red kicks know. *chuckles.
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