" BackgroundThe Red Shoes(1948, UK) is a beautiful and sensitive post-war film - the 10th collaboration from the masterful and respected British directing/producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (who also scripted the original screenplay), who called themselves The Archers.His only possession was a collection of family photographs and letters, with the name of his widowed aunt, Lady Murasaki-Lecter (Gong Li) [she had lost her entire family when a bomb fell on Hiroshima in 1945].Whaddya feel like doin""?Angie complains about their normal Saturday night indecisiveness: "We ought to do somethin"".He confirmed:I""ve never been allowed outside of the house.After visiting the garage, the group went inside the house, where Chance described how early in his life, he first listened o the radio, then was given television sets by the eccentric, bed-ridden millionaire "Old Man" - with whom he had lived his whole sheltered life, while remaining oblivious about the real world.They spread out nets, fired up the light in a lighthouse to draw in the mermaids, hen sent out several longboats as further bait to attract them.