Violet's Visit
by Richard Turner
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Actor: Caleb Packham, Graham Harvey, May Lloyd, Paul Selgren, Rebecca SmartDirector: Richard Turner
Brand: ARIZTICAL ENTERTAINMENT INC
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 84 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Ariztical Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Violet's Visit
Movie Review: How to Confuse your Kids
Summary: 3 Stars
I think this movie was intended to be a 'progay' movie, There is a difference between knowledge and belief, and this movie fails in its effort to move the belief that gaylife is as beneficial (or even beneficial at all) as traditional family life for kids. Every society ever discovered knew that children thrive best with a mother and a father working together to raise the children to social maturity. This movie, unintentionally, reinforces that knowledge.
They have to have Violet come from a totally dysfunctional, self-centered mother to even have a chance at making her 'inverted' (as Havelock Ellis or Krafft-Ebing would have described him in the late 19th & early 20th Centuries) father's ad hoc union look better. However, instead of finding herself in any better of a situation, Violet becomes even more confused and disoriented. Her father's situation doesn't make sense to her. Also, living in a largely Sodomenesque district of the city, Violet is even frustrated when the boy she develops a crush on does not respond because he is convinced he identifies with the people in this subculture. In short, although they try to make Violet's father and his partner seem like any normal married couple, to Violet, and to most viewers, it just seems grotesque and something to which she does not wish to be exposed.
In the end, Violet chooses to stay with her father. However, this is due much more to psychological reasons than an acceptance of his lifestyle. While boys naturally separate from their mothers in terms of self identity when they are still preschool age, this separation is delayed in normal girls until early adolescence. That is why mother's have so much trouble with girls that age. At fifteen, Violet was experiencing this need to separate from her mother. That she insisted on calling Alec 'Dad,' is indication of another psychological drive common to girls in that there is an innate need for girls to have an active father in their lives. How many dozens or even hundreds of movies have been made expressing a young girl's pain from experiencing an absent father? Finally, to a lesser extent, Violet's mother was asking her to enter still another new situation, so she chose the known bad situation with her father than suffer adjusting to a new, unknown situation.
In short, this movie does a great, though unintended, job of showing how a selfish, aberrant mother and a selfish, aberrant father cause confusion and pain in the lives of their children.
Summary of Violet's Visit
After Violet's single mother introduces Violet to the latest "dad" she decideds to run away from her small hometown to search for her father. With her father s address given to her by her grandmother she turns up on his doorstep planning to surprise him. For Pete the man who opens the door the surprise is a total shock. Pete has dated Alec (Violet s Father) for the last eight years. Violet is Alec's unwelcomed reminder of a long forgotten past. Pete quickly takes to her and convinces Violet to stay on trial basis. The boys soon realize that raising a teenager is not easy as caged birds. Violet finds the gay world of her father heady and confusing. What unfolds is the classic love story between fathers and daughter played out with humor and sensitivity. This is a rare view of the common tale of contemporary family.System Requirements: Running Time 84 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MISCELLANEOUS/SPECIAL INTEREST Rating: NR UPC: 631008050997 Manufacturer No: CQC509Comedy DVD Video
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