a review for the red violin

Rating: Null/10 (19 September 2010)

The Red Violin is actually a two part story. The main story is about Morgan Freeman's character, Charles Morritz. He is musical instrument historian trying to authenticate the Red Violin's origin. The secondary story is the history of the violin from the very beginning in 1681. The theme of the red violin is the journey of one particular item and the lives it can change.
The main characters in the film are Morgan Freeman, Charles Morritz, plays a musical instrument historian trying to authenticate the origin of the red violin. Carlo Cecchi plays Nicolo Bussotti. Irene Grazoli plays Anna Rudolphi Bussotti, Nicolo pregnant wife. Anita Laurenzi who plays Cesca Anna's servant and performs the tarot card reading. Christoph Koncz, Kasper Weiss.
After Anna's death, the violin was donated to an orphanage in Austria and for the next 100 years many boys played this particular violin. Until Kasper Weiss received the violin and he made it sing. He also was attached to his instrument so much so he would sleep with it. It meant the world to him. He died playing that instrument. The next stop is Oxford, London and it is played by Jason Fleming as Frederick Pope and to him the violin is good and bad. It brings out the best in him musically but personally it destroys his family. So much so his girlfriend shoots the violin grazing the neck. He is smoking Opium and is in the arms of another. He commits suicide and leaves his entire estate to his girlfriend. The violin, however he leaves to his Chinese servant. The violin then moves on Shanghi, China. During this time period the violin must be in hiding because anything to do with Western culture is banned and destroyed. Its final stop an auction house in 1997, where Charles Morritz finally proved it was the original Red Violin. He switched it with one of the really good fakes and took it home to his daughter.
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The characters throughout the movie have a special relationship with this violin and it helps many to overcome fears and gives them confidence in themselves. The setting of the movie takes place on five different places and each place is as real as it gets. The rich red color of the violin is amazing. When you craft something for the one you love, of course it is going to be perfect. In its life span it had made many people happy and sad. The journey of life is not all about the things we collect, but the few that we do are special and we want to hold on to them.