Killer Boots
"I shaved my head…put on a bomber jacket, and it felt as if I got bigger. I grew. People respected me. Suddenly I looked dangerous just because I put on boots with steel caps." This "collage of voices, skinheads and boots" offers a seemingly neutral, "anthropological" t...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English Swedish |
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SotFilm
1997
Sweden |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:1d24f8e6-e60e-47f8-859d-0a9f263489d1 |
| Summary: | "I shaved my head…put on a bomber jacket, and it felt as if I got bigger. I grew. People respected me. Suddenly I looked dangerous just because I put on boots with steel caps." This "collage of voices, skinheads and boots" offers a seemingly neutral, "anthropological" treatment of the skinheads phenomenon through its major attribute, the famed DcMartens steel-capped footwear. The masterful use of voice-over, sound effects and the Requiem soundtrack set the tone for this original production, creating an illusion of first-hand experience for the viewer. The steal-capped boots are kicking the camera, or rather, what we assume to be the heads, ribs and bellies of the victim, while the voice-over shares personal memories of "what it feels like" to be crushing a human skull or a ribcage, and of what sounds are produced by the cracking bones. The film takes us into the ER as it follows the victim of one such attacks, Christer Dyrwold. Having spent 9 months in hospitals, Christer has still not completely recovered, while his offender was sentenced to a mere 3 years in prison for attempted murder and robbery, his blood-stained boots symbolically destroyed by the police after the completion of the investigation. |
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| Published: | 1997 |