His piercing green eyes are echoed in the brooch Violet wears at her throat. Violet returns time and again to her memories of him, every one of them heavy with the horrors of war. Gilbert Bougainvillea has always been a character very much defined by his absence. It is also with Yurith that Violet learns to recognise and reject pity. Yurith’s protectiveness and jealousy for his younger sibling gives Violet insight into the uncomfortable relationship between the Bougainvillea brothers. Much as with the series, this provides parallels to the main characters and underline the themes they are experiencing. The other story element concerns the terminally ill Yurith enlisting the help of Violet to write letters for his family to remember him by. It acts as something of a counterpoint to a romantic reunion, showing how Violet’s story isn’t confined solely to her attachment to her beloved Major. Ann’s bookending of Violet’s story stresses her literary afterlife and the way that her letters continue to inspire, encouraging others to put their true feelings to paper. Superficially, this framing narrative acts as exposition for an audience who has been following the series, explaining the job of the Auto Memory Dolls, but it also allows us to see Violet’s legacy. She lingers in the conservatory where Violet had typed up those letters and travels to Leiden, finding a museum where the CH Postal Company used to be. Now, Ann herself has passed away and Daisy is curious about that seemingly bygone world of letters. For fifty years, letters have arrived every birthday for Ann from her dead mother.
FIND LOVE OR DIE TRYING VIOLET TV
The frame story concerns Daisy, the grand-daughter of Ann Magnolia, discovering the letters that Violet had written on the behalf of Clara Magnolia in an episode of the original TV series. That the film exists at all is something of a miracle. It is one of the reasons for the film’s delay and it is thus impossible not to see the shadow of it in certain lines, such as one about how a simple celebration has now become a memorial for the dead. The very real tragedy of the arson attack on Kyoto Animation’s studio haunts the film.
FIND LOVE OR DIE TRYING VIOLET MOVIE
Violet Evergarden: The Movie is a film about second chances, piecing oneself together after tragedy and allowing oneself the luxury of love despite the overwhelming guilt of survival.
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