The Reduced Violin

Rating: 3/10 (16 November 2018)

The Red Violin is a random series of events that are not connected in any way, shape or form. I understand the fact that European films often have no point and are usually just "slice of life", but this film is even worse. It tells us nothing of the construction of the violin and very little about what it was intended for.
A hole in the plot is that the violin was intended for the creator's "son", but we never learn whether his newborn is male of female. What happened to his dream of giving it to his "son"? How did it end up in a monastery? Why was the violin "red"?
The whole movie just doesn't add up, but I was willing to bear with it because of the marvelous solo violin playing supplied by Joshua Bell.
Then, came an impasse. The Chinese lady who tried to hide and save the instrument from the cultural revolution had her door kicked in by storm-troopers? I can not forgive the screen-writer this travesty. This kind of cruelty was unnecessary in this film and I ejected the movie and threw it in the trash because of this. Why do they think that seeing a pure heart betrayed is entertaining? I will not accept such darkness in my art. Is there any reason why we couldn't have been shown a happy segment involving Chinese people in China?
With no plot, no point and no kindness, this film is a joke.