Purple Violets - For American Eyes Only
I recently learned that Purple Violets, an independent movie by Edward Burns, was available exclusively on iTunes. Being a movie fan, I rebooted my computer into Windows, and went to the PV website so I could buy the movie.
Although I watch almost anything (including bad movies out of curiosity or boredom), the synopsis for Purple Violets lost me at: “…relationship comedy about four friends from college ready for change”. That tagline alone was enough to kill my excitement for the movie’s method of availability. Still, because I had already logged out of Linux and into Windows, I thought I would follow through with it and test the process for buying the movie.
After Apple updated my version of iTunes, I infuriatingly discovered that the movie, like Hotel Chevalier in the weeks before it was bundled with the theatrical showing of The Darjeeling Limited, was only available to customers with an American billing address. This was not a big loss, considering I wasn’t looking forwards to having to watch a “…relationship comedy about four friends from college ready for change”. But if this trend continues, I may not be able to see many movies because an online store doesn’t allow customers outside of the US to purchase their digital files.
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By Julianna Yau
On November 21, 2007
At 8:42 pm
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