Flower Symbobism 101

 

One of the concepts we are trying to heavily involve in this project is the use of flower symbology. In the same way that certain rocks hold certain storys and meanings, flowers also represent different concepts and emotions. Some of the most famous uses of Flower Symbology includes The Red Poppy being a simble of death and loss, closely assosiated with the World Wars, which is why people wear them around November time. Red Roses are also obviously a sign of love, being used in many cheesy hollywood romantic films. The flowers we intend to use in this film are not entirely conventional, however they all hold strong meenings.

The Blue Violet 

 The blue violet is a flower that it is understood to symbolise faithulness. Faithulness is a theme very strong in our project (the man being faithful to his girlfriend to the very end). Although we do not intend to use physical blue violets in the film, we have subtley included this concept in our project, by naming our female character Violet and dressing her in a blue dress, ordering her a blue drink etc. She is literaly 'The Blue Violet'. The use of the colour blue is something I will deal with later in this blog, using concepts from M. Night Shamylan film The Sixth Sense. 





The Red Spider Lilley

As I mentioned in my last post, at the end of the film, the man takes a call with a florest, and asks for 'Red Spider Lilley's' for Violets grave as they were her favorite. Red Spider Lileys do not feature in most standard Western flower dictionarys as they are a particularly rare sort of flower, however after much research, we came across Hanakotoba which is a Japanese variation of flower language. In the Hanakotoba flower clasification system, it is apparent that the Red Spider Lilley can represent Never To Meet Again, Abandonement and Lost Love. These themes are clearly aparent in the film, particularly at the end when Violet disapears and the man leaves his ring behind.


 We hope to perhaps add more flower symbolism to this film as we go on.

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