Today I have another fairy-tale adaptation video for your viewing enjoyment, Navin Dev’s Red Hood. Many of you know that Little Red Riding Hood is one of my favorite fairy tales, and Dev makes some fun and interesting choices with his short film. Here’s the official description:
Once upon a time, cloaked in her favoured red hood, Little Red Cap set off to Grandmother. But soon she was drawn away from the designated path by what the surrounding woods had to offer—mysteries, beauty, and the Wolf. Red, now a 40-year-old woman, still bears the same fears, guilt and anger as she remembers the day her life changed. Creating a new red hood for her daughter, she must now make the ultimate choice as to whether or not to pass on her identity and in turn her fate.
Red Hood is about a parent’s hope and the creation of fateful decisions through inner confrontation. The truth behind the production was to remain faithful to the original intentions of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm describe that tales are “fragments of belief dating back to the most ancient times, in which spiritual things are expressed in a figurative manner.” Stitching a new red hood reminds Red of that fateful day as a child when her duteous routine of attending to Grandmother broke as she began to take in wonders of the outer world around her—including the Wolf. Her Grandmother once passed on her very own fears of growth in the symbolic form of the red hood to Little Red; could this cycle repeat again?
Winner of Best Foreign Film award at the Washougal International Film Festival 2008 (US). Shortlisted for Best Short Film award at Sefton Short Film Festival 2008 (UK).
