生命電視 台中五方講堂

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這是個關於願望的故事，也是一個由美麗高跟鞋串起來的故事。售價美金300-1000 ­元的奢華名牌高跟鞋，到底是誰做出來的呢？從取得皮料、製作、代工到套進一雙雙白皙的 ­腳上，要經過多少人的手？這些養牛的農婦、工人、代工管理者和穿高跟鞋的紐約名媛，都 ­有自己生活上的難處和小小的快樂。本片以他們的願望為主軸，呈現出美麗高跟鞋背後的故 ­事。

本片歷經兩年的拍攝，追著名牌高跟鞋的足跡，從中國和俄羅斯的邊境，一路拍到紐約的曼 ­哈頓；從貧困的農村，殺牛取皮的血腥現場，到時尚奢華的大都會；春天，小牛的皮剛被割 ­下，女工在生產線上，精心修飾每一個細節。到了那一年的冬天，那些細節就穿在紐約時尚 ­女性的腳上。

全球化對這個世界的影響，從這一雙雙高跟鞋中顯現。每個製作高跟鞋的環節，是一個小短 ­片，裡面有不同的故事主角。透過攝影機，看到了主角腳上所穿的鞋，價格從人民幣2元到 ­美金600元不等。片中有女工的喜怒哀樂，也有台商作為代工者，和國際客戶協商的現場 ­；有紐約名媛的內心世界，也有屠牛場的殘酷實境。這些主角的願望，顯示了他們生活處境 ­上的差異性。全片在平靜中潛伏巨大能量，猶如一首浩瀚浮於世事的詩篇。


About the Film

This is a film about dreams, and a tale bound together by beautiful high-heeled shoes. Brand-name high heels costing anywhere from $300 to $1000 -- exactly who is it that makes them? From procuring the leather, to the assembly line, to the contract manufacturer, to the moment when lily-white feet slip into each pair of high heels, how many people's hands do these shoes pass through? The farming woman who tends the cattle, the worker, the manager of the contract manufacturing firm, the young New York woman from a wealthy family who wears the shoes -- they all have their own difficulties and little sources of happiness in life. This film adopts their dreams as its central theme, and reveals the story that lies behind a pair of beautiful high heel shoes.

Filmed over a period of two years, this documentary traces the footsteps of a pair of name-brand high-heeled shoes, from the border of China and Russia to the streets of Manhattan, from an impoverished farm town and the sanguinary spectacle of slaughtered cows and skinned hides, to the fashionable, prosperous metropolis. In the spring, the hide of the calves have just been skinned, and the woman assembly-line worker meticulously touches up every last detail of the shoes. By winter of the same year, those tiny details can be seen on the feet of a fashionable woman in New York City.

The impact of globalization on this world manifests itself in each pair of high heel shoes. Every link in the manufacturing chain is its own segment with its own story, and each has its own protagonist. Through the camera, we see the shoes the protagonists wear, ranging from 2 renminbi to 600 US dollars. The film reveals a young female assembly-line worker, with her own feelings of joy, disillusionment and sorrow; a Taiwanese businessman in China, managing a contract manufacturing firm and negotiating with international customers; the inner world of a fashionable, well-off young woman of New York; and the cruel realities of the slaughterhouse. The dreams of all these people reveal the disparities in their positions in life. Beneath the calm and quiet of the entire film lurks an enormous energy, like an immense poem floating amidst the affairs of the world.