The Sound of Violet

Refreshing new faces creating some excellent craftsplay here. A prostitute, an autistic kid, concerned brother and grandmother, and of course the trafficker. Unfortunately they stereotyped with the black badass pimp, with no other diversity in sight, and went a bit longer than necessary, but beautiful! Seattle shots and excellent acting. Some laugh out loud moments, some tears, surprisingly no! Profanity or overt sexuality. Saw lots of tears in the audience, poignant, and surprisingly believable. Well done, shout out to local Seattleite Kaelon Christopher!

Haven't see such a well made movie for a long time!!! Good story, relatable, well directed, well made. After watching it, I felt hopeful for the society and for American movie industry. Highly highly recommended!

A touching and well crafted film that explores the power of the human condition. Pain, isolation, joy and compassion is all on display in this poignant, beautifully told story. A film about hope-it's a soothing balm in these turbulent times!!! Highly recommend!!

Loved it. I laughed, I cried, and I was challenged to consider autism and human trafficking in ways that were new to me. If there's such a thing as a thought-provoking date night movie, this is it. Well done.

I learned a lesson again today when I saw this movie rated 7.9 on IMDb. So, decided to dig it out to watch it.

Now, first I must say that I don't normally review a movie that I haven't watched all the way thorugh. But, this time, I just couldn't do the full 107 minutes. What I did manage was about 40 minutes of one of the dumbest movies I think i've ever seen.

The plot of the movie is in the IMDb short summary so I don't think I'm contravening IMDb policy on spoilers when I say it's just unimaginable that most of the characters in this silliness appeared to be oblivious to the obvious fact that Violet is a prostitute. They therefore failed to alert the autistic main character, Shawn, to that simple fact. Perhaps he would still have been interested in her had he known what trade she was in, perhaps not. That knowledge might have made for a much shorter and possibly a lot better movie.

I see now that the rating of 7.9 was based on a total of.94 ratings. But, importantly, ony eight people before me bothered to write a review.

I must try to avoid paying to watch a movie simply on the basis of a good over all rating here on IMDb. A rating of 7.9 probably indicates that a movie is great, or at least well worth watching. But, regrettably, as here, not always. This one was rubbish.

JMV.