the Red Violin
The Red Violin offers some interesting messages about the universality of the language of music. The acting and sets are spectacular, and the actors through the eras do very credible jobs of playing the magical violin. Lastly, the secret of the red violin's color turns out to be an apt symbol for the level of commitment that true musical devotion demands. "The Red Violin" takes its audience on a journey spanning five countries and three centuries. As the violin passes into five principal lives, each tells a story of both hope and greed. Violin maker Nicolo, set aside his best violin as a gift to his unborn child. His wife Anna inquires from her housekeeper and Tarot reader about the child's life. Anna is instructed to choose five cards. As each card in interpreted, we follow the "life" of the violin as it interacts with each person who eventually possesses it. Through the tragedy of Anna and her child's death, we learn the card reading is also for the Red Violin--call it Bussotti's other child. Hope turns to grief as the perfect violin is all that remai
I would definitely recommend this movie to any student or anyone looking for a great story. In 1893, in Oxford England, gypsies playing the Red Violin beckon the ear of the flamboyant romantic musician Frederick Pope. Be true to yourself and your life will be beautiful. The Red Violin embodies our mortality and immortality simultaneously. Feeling aroused to play, he summons his lover, the novelist Victoria Byrd. Sufficiently warned of the consequences, he is allowed to keep western instruments only if he uses them to perform traditional cultural tunes. In 1792, the monks summon Georges, a master of the period, to groom the child. She gives the violin to a music teacher upon whose behalf she intervened by saving him from punishment for teaching degrading western music that violates their rules. We search to create something that lives beyond us so we will live our life beyond mortal life. Upon the teacher's death, his assortment of instruments is crated off to Montreal to a prestigious auction house where Charles, played by Samuel Jackson is hired to authenticate the Red Violin through a series of scientific tests in hopes it is the fabled 17th century Bussotti masterpiece. Painting the violin red, he pours his anger into it. Just as Kaspar is to perform for the patron Georges has arranged young Kaspar's weak and frail heart fails him at his pivotal moment and promise turns to setback in a heart beat. As a party official for the denunciation of all things western (including certain musical instruments of the Red variety), she is torn between her love for said instrument of corruption and her duty as an official. Time finds Xiang in the eye of the whirlwind of the Chinese Revolution.
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