I know this topic is old, but the point of Violet Evergarden is not that it wants to show you a storytelling rhythm, or a structure, what it wants to tell the audience, maybe a kind of A discussion of forgotten things.
It wants to see what "love" is through Violet's point of view.
Some commentators are very obsessed with Violet's character design. They analyze from the aspects of era, technology and human nature to tell everyone that this character design is not objectively valid. However, the writer does not rely on pure rationality and objectivity to create a character. The writer creates a character based on her emotions and understanding of the world.
Violet's pure and inflexible emotional world like a blank sheet of paper is the basis for the existence of the story of "Violet". If it weren't for her ignorance of the definition of "love", this story wouldn't have come to you and me.
Kyoto seems to be using this role to tell us that when we think we have mastered "love" very well, we see only very few of them.
Some people commented on its storytelling, saying it was illogical.
Why can Violet be taken in? Why did the friends at the doll school want to help her? Why did the writer father open his heart after seeing her fly over the lake?
I don't think these people understand the story of Violet.
It tells us that these things that we think "how can it be done", in Kyoto, in Violet's eyes, are all constituted by the definition of "love". Whether it's kindness or empathy, whether it's an apology letter or an unfinished script, whether it's the phrase "I really love you" or "I want to know what love is", they are all components of "love".
Starting from a letter that untied the knot between siblings, the power of words led us to see family, friendship and love. Through the perspective of Violet, we experienced the reunion after a long absence, and the princess and prince. A childish bet between them.
The boy from the planetarium asked Violet in the direction she left, if he would go with her to see it.
The seriously ill mother wrote a letter to her daughter's future before she died.
The performer who lost her fiancé in the war, she waited in the theater and wanted to tell everyone her emotions.
If I had to give a reason for all of this to be true, it would be because of "love".
We think that "love" is selfish, uncontrollable, jealous, mad, and that "love" will entangle the heart like a vine, and it will also devour the mind like a swamp.
But "Violet" tries to tell us that "love" may be all of the above, but it is also tolerance, perseverance, understanding, forgiveness, the tenderness hidden under the occasional indulgence, and taking you to see the clock tower at sunrise outside scenery.
"Love" made Violet the person she was supposed to be.
But there are still people who are saying, what kind of human bible is this? This is the Apocrypha.
Maybe such a person will never know what "love" means, I think.
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