When you look through the weeds enough occasionally you’ll find a rare beautiful flower. I pass over so many movies and refuse to pay for any streaming services. Which leaves me often searching through sites like YouTube and Tubi for something worth watching, that I also haven’t seen before.
Last week I stumbled upon “The Sound Of Violet” if you haven’t read the book written by Allen Wolf or watched the movie which he wrote and directed, do yourself a favour and stop reading this post and go and do so. Reading beyond this point is your acknowledgement that a spoiler alert has been given and understood.
The brief synopsis for the film on Tubi is “Desperate to find a wife before his grandma dies, an autistic engineer for a dating app meets his soulmate in a sex worker looking for a meal ticket.” On IMDB it’s “Desperate to find a wife, Shawn meets Violet and thinks she’s his perfect soulmate, but his autism keeps him from realizing she’s actually a prostitute. Based on the award-winning novel.”
The description on Tubi had me curious but also skeptical. It could have gone so many ways, and even while watching the film I wondered where they were taking the storyline. Which is why I’m bothering to share it with you, I was pleasantly surprised by this film. And deeply moved. I wanted to write this immediately after watching it, but I was in no fit state to do so. Days later and I feel I can more rationally say this should be on your list of films to watch or books to read this week.
My local library doesn’t have a copy of the book but I’ll track one down somewhere because I am curious to see how it’s characters and story align with the movie. I found the movie to be very honest, both in highlighting how we can or should show Christ’s love to others, and how we often don’t. It’s also a confronting look into how someone who has been trafficked can feel and the difficulties they can face in overcoming that.
It also highlights how prolific human trafficking is in your neighborhood, and the tactics that are used. It’s happening all around us, but we often don’t see it, or choose not to see it. It’s more prolific now than in any point in history which is why I’ve previously written about it when “The Sound Of Freedom” film came out. If you feel as passionately about saving lives as I do then have the courage to watch the film and/or read the book. Then share “The Sound Of Violet” with others.