A Review of The Red Shoe Diaries by Zalman King

Does anyone remember this movie? It was an old Showtime movie that debuted around 2006. It was one of David Duchovny's earlier works. 

Any who, for those of you who have never seen the movie, it is a story about a man named Jake (Duchovny) and his fiance Alex (Brigitte Bako). Alex decided to commit suicide because she was unable to confront her feelings for Jake and a construction worker named Tom.

Tom and Alex have amazing chemistry and there is no way the fire between them is going to be extinguished by her upcoming nuptials. So rather than Alex confront the situation head on. She decided to take an easy way out and kill herself. 

So this brings me to the topic of this discussion. Jake spent a lot of time trying to figure out why Alex did what she did or perhaps what he could have done to prevent it. 

Well the truth of the matter is; in my opinion, Alex was damaged goods and technically she would not have been happy with either one of them. When I look at women or people in general who are like Alex I think of dead weight. I often think of people that you will always have to cater to or carry. 

And perhaps they are not vampires (always sucking the life out of you) because they want to be that way; but because they are simply broken. Alex was too needy. So needy that I don't think she ever would have been able to do anything for Jake if he needed her. 

Alex's character required 24 hour nurturing. And that's draining. How in the world would a relationship thrive off of that? People like her maybe appealing initially, but after a while, the honey moon phase is going to wear off. I know that Jake really loved her, and felt betrayed but sometimes, there really is a blessing in betrayal. 

Nine times out of ten, all the people who leave you, only leave because their part to play in your life really is over. But sometimes, we are the ones who didn't get the memo. 

I can only imagine what it must feel like to get ready to make one of the biggest commitments you can to another person and then later find out that person was untrue. I felt especially sorry for Jake when he lay curled up on the floor in the fetal position after reading Alex's diary. All that time he'd been thinking she was the one and all she'd done was screw him over.

Nevertheless, he really was better off without Alex. Don't get me wrong. I hate she killed herself but she required too much. And although Tom loved her too, she was too much weight for him to carry as well even though he did work with a jack hammer all day!

Cheerio folks! More reviews to come!!!