Girard's imaginative speculations became the narrative for his beloved film, "The Red Violin,"" (www.elizabethpitcairn.com).
The violin ended up in the virtuous hands of Elizabeth Pitcairn, who was only 16 at the time, but was a very promising talent. According to the history of the violin, it was purchased at an auction by Elizabeth's grandfather, who got the magnificent instrument for his granddaughter's 16th birthday. Since then, Pitcairn has used and treasured her instrument as a most precious jewel. People might have imagined that the audience went to hear her play, because she was playing the last masterpiece crafted by the great Stradivarius. But, "the buzz," was never just about the violin: it was about the girl and the violin," (www.brantfordexpositor.ca). People went to hear her play because she was talented enough to make the violin sound like floating magic on Earth.
As the first main character in the movie is Nicolo Bussotti, I would like to elaborate on his development or alternation of his identity. We meet the craftsman in his workshop instructing young, promising talents how to make an instrument. He dedicates his whole life to make violins. When it comes to the Red Violin, he claims that it is perfect, his best work. It is the moment when he consoles his wife about the future that we first get a glimpse of the violin in its very early stages. It is not different from any of the violins that are hanged in the workshop. What makes it special at this early point in the movie, without the varnish, just the raw wood, is the reason behind its making. Nicolo makes a violin to foreshadow the future of his unborn son: a well-known musician to be. "What arouses him, then, to the creation of one particular violin so utterly precise that it will allow it to outlast the weathering effects of time and peril in the grasp of hands that only passingly sense its quality? As often is the case with great artists, quiet suffering that results from great tragedy sometimes empowers one to yield their most important work.
