"Violet" Movie review

Movie: Violet

Director:Luis Berdejo

Cast:Junio Valverde, Leticia Dolera, Carlos Bardem

I found this move is well narrated two different ways of pursuing ‘Love’.

Like Alex, he got totally smitten by one image of an unknown woman and decided that he is in love.

I feel a bit nauseated to see this sort of scene. How dare he can define he is in love? 

I would say, he was strongly attracted to the one image and without any concrete purpose, he wants you invest his energy to find and meet her.  (it does not have to be defined as ‘Love’)

But it also explains about how some people would like to define love. Like we are more excited night before the first school-picnic day, we get more excited by falling in love with an image/idea of a person rather than the real person. It’s much easier and your love can be more fantasized.  That’s why some people have problem in having a relationship but like keeping on dating in shallow level.

No reality can beat your own imagination. That’s why art exists and we(gosh, i call myself artist) constantly have an attempt to compete against the imagination of yourself or future and, as the result, we get better at it.

Later Alex realize what type of love he wants to have for his life. The love he should put effort to understand & accept the other human the way they are and able to enjoy the continuous interaction. That’s what Alex’s best girlfriend did supporting his journey to find the girl of the photo.

I think there is time in your life that you just do not want to face reality but keep on chasing the ideas.

I am not criticizing this phase of human behavior at all and we need this sort of time to be able to construct the kind of your own imagination that you would like to have in relationship with your a temporary or long –term life partner(s).

I also like the fact that the movie win over my skeptical attitude at the beginning. At the end of movie my skeptical attitude toward initial motif changed to ‘however a stupid idea or waste of time it may sound on what you want to do, you got to have gut/belief to move forward based on your own unique desire/emotion in the heart.

It’s common that sensing what we want is hard task but it is one of necessary skills you need to keep on sharpening to keep you life ‘alive’. It’s easy we get cluttered with much expectation from society, your boy/girl friends, work, media, etc.

To me, it sounded absolutely a waste of time for what Alex did and did not approve of his initial motivation. But at the end of the movie, after witnessing, the creative adventures he went through, the level support he got from his friends and strangers, the connection he regain with his deceased grand father and making new friends, and the level he could push forward himself to in absolutely dark cave, not knowing where it’s going  makes all worth of the journey.

I found this is what may have been missing to me and some of us in our child hood. So easily we do not allow our-selves to chase after desire by emotion.  But it’s important process to keep in order to reach and be connected to deeper oneself and allow this unknown force to lead you to the unexpected world, see how you handle this and, after all, this sort of experience help mold your character unique with much more spirit and energy in your life.