The theatrical version of "Violet Eternal Garden" is the first official theatrical version after the Kyo Ani disaster, released in 2020, and the story timeline should be after "Violet Eternal Garden Forever and Automatic Handwritten Dolls". As a theatrical version of the animation, the film still inherits Kyo Ani's consistently excellent production and look, and the emotional communication is quite excellent. Tell me about my impressions of the work.
Exquisite and elegant picture
Kyo Ani's treatment of the picture is almost at the top of the industry. In this work, they do not emphasize the stunning look and feel, but pursue a soft and delicate and natural texture, marking a layer of hazy filters on the picture to make the lines look softer, and in the slightly realistic painting and post-processing is also a higher level, an ordinary object will appear so soft and harmonious in the play, such as the typewriter in the picture above, in the CG rendering blessing, it looks so realistic and does not lose the fictional beauty.
The painting of "Violet Eternal Garden" is still maintained at a super-first-class level. Because this time, Violet can almost be described as a catharsis of feelings, the expression of emotions is more concentrated and explosive than the TV version, so the requirements for the part of the character painting are higher, but Kyo Ani still resisted the pressure and showed a super-first-class level, especially Violet's crying face, which is both realistic and maintains the unique aesthetic feeling of the animation, so beautiful and delicate crying cavity I also saw for the first time in the animation.
Mild-mannered atmosphere
"Violet Eternal Garden" is a process of emotional accumulation and release, so it takes efforts to render the atmosphere. The theatrical version is very gentle in terms of rhythm control, neither like the OVA seems a little procrastinating, nor does it have a cramped feeling, it can be described as unhurried, just right, and the climax of the brewing does take enough preparation to make the final meeting between the two appropriate. In addition to the control of the rhythm, the sense of atmosphere is also a very important part of the shaping of the lines, the setting of the music, and of course, the beautiful paintings and beautiful backgrounds that have just been mentioned. Evan Call's idyllic and light music, as well as the beautiful background art, provide the basis for this atmosphere, and the different seasonal changes are also presented through beautiful backgrounds, euphemistically narrating the changes of time.
For the theatrical version of "Violet Eternal Garden", the atmosphere of the setting can be described as the most attentive part.
Bring the TV version to a successful conclusion
The plot part of the theatrical version of "Violet Eternal Garden" is to draw a satisfactory end to the whole work, the story style completely inherits the warm and emotional style of "Violet Eternal Garden", the young man who wants to say "love you" to his parents again before he dies, the younger brother who does not dare to contact his sick brother, because he cannot express his feelings well, but can only convey his love to his parents by writing letters, and of course, Gilbert who will attach the misfortune to Violet to himself. A thousand words, into a sentence, is "I love you", knowing the love of Violet, naturally will learn to be grateful, so write each letter, even if the communication between people and people is more convenient because of the emergence of the telephone, but there are still unspeakable words that need to be expressed in words.
Some people hate to say that the theatrical version of The role of Kilbert is too pretentious, but Violet, who understands feelings, is more able to express his feelings, but I think that the introverted and literary plot itself of "Violet Eternal Garden" is what Violet said, "those unspoken words", and its expression itself is to write a letter and convey feelings with a restrained way. So my title is "Straight Man Persuasion", if you don't feel this atmosphere, you will feel that its plot is too short and pretentious, if you can experience the process with the mood of reading a letter, then this is a great movie.
Say at the end
It has been 2 years since the fire of Kyo Ani, the fire is merciless and sentient, Kyo Ani has once again created a warm world with their gentle brushes, living in a world with Kyo Ani is the best happiness.