KINKY BOOTS

KINKY BOOTS is a popular British movie getting some minor buzz in North America. It is a well-made film with some appealing characters, but it suffers from an uneven story and mature themes that prevent it from reaching a broader audience outside Britain.

Inspired by a true story, the movie opens on a black boy dressed like a girl whose father stops him from dancing in tights and women’s red shoes. Cut to Richard Price, owner of a family shoe factory in Northhampton, who is poetically instructing his young son, Charlie, on the importance of shoes.

Years later, Mr. Price is seeing Charlie off to London to live with his fiancé, Nicola. No sooner is Charlie with Nicola that he gets news of his father’s untimely death. Charlie takes over the factory, but learns that his father lost a big contract, but kept making the shoes in hopes of selling them at some point.

Charlie goes to London to try to unload the shows, but the shoe outlets want cheap shoes from overseas, not the fine footwear Price & Sons provides. Charlie gets a bit drunk before returning to Northhampton. He tries to stop three tough men from harassing a black woman. The woman knocks Charlie unconscious on a backswing from her broken red boots when she tries to hit one of her attackers. Charlie wakes up to find that the woman is actually the grown-up boy in the first scene, Simon. Simon is a cross-dressing female impersonator at his own club, The Angel Club, where he designs everything, including the costumes he wears. Simon now calls himself Lola.

Back in Northhampton, Charlie reluctantly has to start firing a few people. “What can I do?” he asks them rhetorically. One pretty young worker, Lauren, tells him that he should try to find a niche market like some of the other British shoe factories.

Charlie, remembering Simon’s broken heel, decides that he might be able to market tougher boots to the growing male transvestite crowd in London. With help from Simon’s talent for design, Charlie and his employees begin to fashion a line of “kinky boots” for the big international fashion show in Milan, Italy. The project to save the factory causes a rift, however, between Charlie and Nicola. She wants Charlie to sell the factory and move to London with her. Also, Simon’s effeminate sexuality raises questions of prejudice that threaten everything. Eventually, even Charlie feels threatened by it.

KINKY BOOTS suffers from multiple premises that make the movie seem too long. Consequently, the story’s climax really occurs at the end of the second act, This makes the movie’s attempt to fashion a climax for the third act somewhat tedious. All this undermines the movie’s appealing characters and performances, including the fine singing voice and stage presence of Chiwetel Ejiofor, the actor who plays Simon, the cross-dressing designer/performer. Ejiofor might create a really nice singing career if he did less offensive songs in a less offensive manner.

Of course, KINKY BOOTS desperately tries to promote the vile homosexual agenda of “transgender politics.” This abhorrent agenda fatally detracts from the emotional appeal of Charlie’s story. His story could have been an uplifting one of a son trying to honor the beloved traditions of his ancestors, including the traditions of his father. Instead, the anti-Christian, homosexual politics of the politically correct, Neo-Marxist liberals in our midst take center stage.

Neo-Marxist liberals have watered down the Church and betrayed the Christian traditions of Western Civilization by throwing out the Bible, diluting the Gospel of Jesus Christ and stomping on God’s Law. They have also degraded our popular culture and corrupted the hearts and minds of our children and grandchildren. This is also what happens to the movie KINKY BOOTS.

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