Friday February 13, 2026
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Flashback Scenes
For the costumes I want to keep it fairly simple, especially for the flashback/ cutaway scenes. I want Violet's costumes to be primarily white and flowy. to convey an angelic and pure connotation to the audience. I want Lee to sort of see her as an angel to symbolize what he will become. In having her look beautiful and angelic, it's a way to show how Lee sees her. I also want to have her in all white or a light color against the green/ nature background to portray rebirth and growth; it in return hints at Lee, without directly saying anything. With him being portrayed through Violet reveals just how important that he was to her.
The main goal is to convey her in the way that Lee saw her before his death, he didn't want to hurt her, but he wanted to die with the memory of her being beautiful and not hurt by his own actions. I just want these overall scenes to be extremely dreamlike and hazy, to show that the memories are fading, but she is still holding onto it.
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Now for Lee's costume in the flashback/ cutaway scene, I want to have his colors get increasingly darker the farther the scenes progress. This symbolism represents the decline of his mental state, and in having this be shown through the colors that surround him, it makes it clear that he is hinting at his death without explicitly saying it with dialogue. In having his costume being black/ dark colors, it makes the atmosphere around him feel unnatural or seemingly decaying. This symbolism quite literally represents his character and the way that Violet viewed him right before his death. She never really knew how deep it ent, however, the decline in his colors and mood made her a bit worried, but by the time she figured it out, it was already too late.
To add on, when those kind of dark colors are paired with the green background, it represents a seemingly "disease" like feeling. With that "disease" being his depression and how it is consuming his entire being. Like I mentioned before, Lee wanted to see Violet in a angelic way before he died, but in doing this he forgot about himself. It becomes increasingly obvious that his hair gets messier, his eyes lose their life, and his feelings turn numb. I want to really show that symbolism through his looks, to create an impacyful story through visuals.
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Opening and Ending Scenes
Now for Violets scenes alone, she somewhat takes the place of Lee. In having her colors take such a dramatic shift from pure and angelic, to dark and depressed, it represents that she if falling into that same numbness that Lee had. This brings a sense of moral ambiguity, showing that she is trapped between the memories of her lover and the present without him. She hasn't excepted the fact that he is gone, so she surround herself in dark colors to still feel like there is a sense of him there. She will also be wearing one of his sweaters to add onto that.
With having the opening scene showing her in full dark gray, surrounded by her white sheets, symbolizes the fact that that angelic feeling is still in there. The way that Lee saw her is still with her, even if she doesn't know it. It's pulling focus onto Violet and showing the same mental decline that she experienced with Lee, adding a bit of isolation mixed in between. Like I said before, it's like she is still bonded to the memories, revealing the trauma that she is still holding onto and refuses to let go.
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