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Violet was the wife of a respected doctor prior to the events of UltraViolet. She was just announcing to her husband that she was pregnant when a hemophage broke into the clinic in search of transplant blood. Police forces stormed the building and shot the hemophage, contaminating her with infected blood. She was immediately quarantined. While in quarantine, government doctors aborted her child for use in medical experiments, and later falsely informed her husband of her death. Several years later, she escaped and attempted to make contact with her husband, only to find that he had remarried. She then joined the hemophage resistance, her anger and obsession enabling her to easily master their specialized martial techniques and become their most deadly fighter; as a hemophage, her physical abilities were amplified beyond the norm.This is more obvious in the novelization of the film than in the actual movie, which was apparently taken out of the director's hands and recut when the studio was dissatisfied with it. The remaining footage is so poorly edited that it is nearly impossible to tell that a hemophage who has been shot is the one who accidentally contaminates Violet. The final release of the film also does not explain what happened to Violet's husband after the shooting, as the novelization does.[edit] NameViolet's surname, Shariff, is probably a variation on the Arabic word Sharif. In the Islamic tradition a Sharif is a direct blood-descendant of the prophet Muhammad. Her middle name Jat is a North Indian ethnicity. Her middle name Song is a Chinese surname.Violet's clothingAccording to the novelization, the clothes Violet wears is a 21st century fad known as mood clothing, so each change in color reflects Violet's emotional state at the given moment. The cloth itself is an OLED material capable of reflecting virtually any image or color. Every strand of her hair is covered in a microsheen of optical polyurethane, allowing her hair to have the same effect.See alsoUltraviolet takes place in the year 2076, in the years following a global pandemic of a blood-borne, highly infectious disease known as hemoglophagia. Those afflicted with the disease are referred to as "hemophages", and have many super-human attributes similar to those of the vampires of legend. After the media began actually referring to carriers of the disease as "vampires" to increase ratings, superstition and fear began to rule the population. Using fear of the contagious disease to seize power and keep the population in check, a militant medical establishment known as the Arch-Ministry takes control of the government and begins rounding up and exterminating all infected citizens.The heroine of the film is Violet Song jat Shariff (Milla Jovovich), a young woman who was infected with hemophagia, in the process losing both her husband and her unborn child. Violet is now an emotionally dead killing machine, a member of an underground resistance movement of hemophages waging a guerrilla war against the Arch-Ministry and its megalomaniacal, mysophobic leader, Vice-Cardinal Ferdinand Daxus (Nick Chinlund).Infiltrating a government laboratory, Violet steals a weapon developed by the Arch-Ministry to exterminate all hemophages on the planet, only to discover the "weapon" is a child named "Six" (Cameron Bright), a young clone of Daxus (sixth out of a series of eight).Violet's fellow hemophages attempt to kill Six, believing that his body contains cultured antigens developed to exterminate all hemophages. Violet breaks ranks with the hemophages and flees with the boy, believing that a cure for the disease can be reverse-engineered from his tissues. On the run from both the government and the hemophages, Violet's only ally is Garth (William Fichtner), a hemophage scientist who is secretly in love with Violet. However, Garth, upon analyzing a sample of Six's blood, tells Violet that the child has not been infected with anything that can kill or cure hemophages. The puzzled Violet starts to wonder exactly why she has been misled, what kind of antigen is inside Six, and why humans would want him if he does not have the power to destroy hemophages. Garth tells Violet that Six's infection is killing him, and that he has only hours to live.At first Violet seems to regard the somewhat catatonic Six as merely a lab sample, but as Six begins to show increasing signs of personality a bond begins to form between the two. Her softer emotions begin to awaken once more as she grows fond of the boy, and he of her.Daxus eventually gets in contact with Violet and gives her instructions to the Archministry Building. Recognizing that her maternal instincts have surfaced, Daxus offers to make her a duplicate of Six if she will give him the genuine article. She refuses and demands that Daxus give her the antidote for Six's disease. He refuses. Violet ultimately learns from Daxus that the disease in Six's body is designed not to kill hemophages, but rather to kill humans. With the hemophages nearly exterminated, the Arch-Ministry needs a new threat to supposedly "protect" the population so that they can maintain their hold on power. Daxus plans to infect the world with the antigen, then control the population by selectively distributing the only cure. He and hundreds of soldiers fire on Violet and her car but she somehow manages to dodge the thousands of bullets all aimed directly at her. After trying to shoot her and hitting what turns out to be a mirage, Daxus finds out that "Violet" was a projection and the real Violet was far away watching the events with Six.Both Violet and Six are dying from their respective ailments, so rather than fight a futile battle against Daxus, Violet takes Six to a playground where the two spend the last few moments of Six's life in an idyllic setting. Daxus and his men arrive and he shoots Violet and orders that Six be taken to Daxus's stronghold, where he will be disassembled, and a portion of him used to create a new clone.However, Garth manages to bring Violet back from the dead because of his feelings for her. But now that she is grief-stricken over Six's death, she has no desire to resume her life as an unthinking killing machine. However, she is alerted by Garth to a newscast showing the day's events, and when Violet sees the news footage of herself weeping over Six's body, and she recalls a tear dropping onto Six, she suddenly realizes that he may not be truly "dead" after all. She immediately rises from her bed and decides to launch a final assault against the Arch-Ministry's headquarters to retrieve Six's body. After loading her suit with enough ammunition to wage a small war, Violet enters the Archministry and forces her way deep in the building, just as Daxus and his men are about to dissect Six as if he were a mere specimen.At first her victory seems sure, as she easily neutralizes Daxus' initial attack with a handheld flamethrower by extinguishing its pilot light with a spray of her own blood and deflecting the stream of fuel with her sword. However, Daxus draws a sword of his own and nearly matches Violet blow-for-blow in a vicious duel. He then shutters the windows, plunging the room into darkness. Although he lacks Violet's strength, Violet lacks his excellent night vision; he is also a hemophage. Daxus, smirking, explains himself - he was one of the original lab technicians researching the hemophage virus, and after an accidental exposure, used the enhancements he gained from the disease to aid in his rise to power. He inflicts several wounds before Violet ignites her fuel-soaked sword upon the stone floor, evening the odds once more. Violet and Daxus then duel once more with flaming swords. Daxus inflicts several flaming wounds on Violet. Finally, Violet manages to set him on fire with his own discarded flamethrower and finishes her enemy by slicing him in half.In the end, Six is brought back to life, and Violet reveals that he was resurrected because one of the tears that she shed upon his "death" fell into his eye. It contained the hemoglophagic virus (which immunizes him from Daxus' anti-human virus). Six himself reveals that he knows the cure for hemoglophagia, which can save Violet's life. The two of them drive off into the sunset as the Arch-Ministry's headquarters burn. Violet states that she is uncertain if she will die from her wounds or her terminal-stage hemoglophagia, but that evil-doers had better beware if she does not.[edit] Fictional technologies and concepts[edit] "Hemoglophagia"Hemoglophagia, otherwise known as the Hemoglophagic Virus or HGV, is a blood disease (possibly comes from the Greek word "αιμοφαγία", meaning blood eating). This was once a rare pathogen allegedly responsible for historical accounts of vampires, but was then modified through genetic engineering by the U.S government as part of a project to create superhuman soldiers. These modifications also made the disease far more contagious, and it soon escaped into the general populace, where the media labeled its carriers "vampires", whipping the tragedy into a constant atmosphere of superstition and fear. To help suppress the fact that the quarantine procedures are actually a witch hunt, the authorities have discouraged the use of the term vampire in favor of labeling carriers of the disease Hemophages. However, there can be no doubt that the authorities are engaged in a witch hunt; in the opening scene a detective cuts his finger on a Hemophage fang and is immediately executed by his partner.Hemophages are biochemically affected by the disease in different ways and to different degrees, resulting in a remarkably wide range of abilities.[edit] Dimensional compressionSee also: Magic satchelSometimes referred to as Flat-Space technology, dimensional compression is used to store objects in a pocket dimension. Simple objects are stored/retrieved and more complex ones systematically deconstructed/reconstructed in a flow of sparkling lights. A significant number of items can be stored for easy retrieval without burdening the user with either weight or size. The technology mainly takes the form of easily overlooked wristbands, although one-inch scabbards holding 42-inch swords are also seen. Handguns (some with 18-inch swords stored in their six-inch grips with enough room remaining for great amounts of ammunition), and ammunition are also hidden in this manner (the bullets flying from the wristbands into the magazines on command).The technology is also used to create habitable pocket dimensions, such as the briefcase/backpack used to transport the ten year old Six and the semi trailer with the internal dimensions of a warehouse (containing Garth's research lab and armory).Dimensional compression is the basis of one of the light hearted scenes in the movie. A security scanner checks Violet, saying "Number of weapons found:", pauses shortly as Violet's weapons are displayed, and says "many", in an astonished voice, as it is unable to calculate the exact number.During the final battle, Daxus pulls out a flamethrower and a sword from nowhere. This might be a result of editing, but judging by the size of Violet's pocket dimensional wristbands, Daxus's ring might have been one of those dimensional containers.[edit] Gravity levelingGravity levelers are devices about the size of combination locks that redirect (rather than nullify or reduce) gravity, enabling a person to stand and manoeuvre on walls, or even ceilings. Violet uses her personal gravity leveler to ambush a squad of guards, firing on them from within a ceiling air vent. Her motorcycle is also equipped with one of these devices, enabling her to engage in a firefight with a helicopter gunship by driving up the side of a high-rise building.[edit] Printed phoneIn the film Violet buys a printed phone. The paper device has the ability to produce holographic images when attached to an extra peripheral. This technology has a basis in reality. In the early 21st century inkjet printer companies such as Epson demonstrated their ability to create functional circuit boards with printer technology.[3][edit] General technology level of fictional universe?There is some confusion as to how widespread these technologies are within Violet's world. The introductory comic on the official website refers to both Dimensional Compression and Gravity Leveling as Garth's personal inventions. However, investigators in the opening scene of the movie are surprised to find flat-space technology in the enemy's possession, and Six is transported in his own personal flat-space zone. Later, police forces are equally surprised by Violet's possession of a gravity leveler.[edit] Other technologiesIn an early scene, Daxus is seen breaking a seal on, and then drinking, a hot drink from a self-heating mug. Self-heating products, both foods and drinks, have been available in the real world for some years now, most of them using an exothermic chemical reaction to heat their contents.__________________________________________________
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