Classic Inspirational Movie: Piano Lesson

Recommended reason: An almost perfect female inspirational film won three awards in 1994: Best Original Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.

Chinese title: "Piano Lesson"

English title: The Piano

Director: jane campion

Starring: holly hunter, harvey keitel, anna paquin

Synopsis: In the mid-19th century, New Zealand had beautiful natural scenery, abundant mineral resources and cheap labor. Group after group of colonists have gone across the ocean to realize their dream of making money. Ida, a Scottish woman, is a beautiful and introverted little woman. She can't speak, and has a 9-year-old daughter Flora. Ada followed her father's arrangement and married Stewart, a man she had never met in New Zealand.

The boat took them to the desolate beach in New Zealand, and Ada and Flora waited for Stewart to pick them up. They only have simple luggage, but they have a dark piano. Stewart brought a group of aborigines to pick up Ada, and decided to leave the piano on the beach because the road was difficult to walk.

Ada missed her piano, so she turned to her neighbor Baines and asked Baines to take her and her daughter to the seaside to watch the piano. When they came to the seaside, Ada rushed to play the piano eagerly, and Flora danced in the piano. Baines looked at them silently. He understood Ada's heart from this shocking music and fell in love with her. So he offered to exchange his 80 acres of land for the piano on the beach. Stewart was very happy. Baines offered Ada to teach him piano lessons, and Stewart readily agreed. Ada didn't agree to the deal at first. She thought Baines was a rough man who didn't deserve to touch her piano, but she had to agree under Stewart's deterrence. In order to play the piano, Ada had to go to Baines's cabin for piano lessons every day, and Flora was playing outside with a puppy. Ada plays the piano intently, but Baines doesn't practice the piano, but looks at her obsessively. For him, taking piano lessons is a beautiful enjoyment.

Baines knew that Ada wanted to own her piano again, so he proposed "barter" to her: he did something to her when she played the piano, and if she agreed, one key at a time. Ada agreed. For Baines, this is not a simple game, but an expression of lust.

Stewart asked Ada Baines how she played the piano. Ada just smiled. Stewart was satisfied without knowing it. In the long-term relationship, Ada and Baines' feelings are growing day by day, but they were discovered by Flora, who is not familiar with the world. Flora told Stewart that she didn't understand why her mother always taught piano and why Parker never played it, and why sometimes she played it but sometimes there was no sound, so Stewart was a little suspicious.

Bo decided to give Ada the piano he bought from the land because he loved Ada too much. Stewart thought it was Parker who changed his mind at first. Ada, who doesn't teach cypress piano, has long been accustomed to playing the piano with cypress, and has fallen in love with cypress. (Inspirational film www.lz13.cn) So she decided to go to Bo. But Stewart found out. He nailed the doors and windows to death with wooden boards and put Ada under house arrest. Early the next morning, Stewart removed the plank from the window and told Ada that he trusted her, so he went out to work. When Ada gave Baines a token, she was found again. Stewart became furious and lost his mind. He cut off Ada's finger. However, Ada can't be persuaded, which may be a force of will. Stewart was finally completely desperate. He came to Baines's cabin with a gun and asked him to take Ada away.

When lovers get married, Baines leaves the island with Ada, Flora and piano. On the boat, Ida finally decided to abandon the piano, which symbolizes her heavy painful memory, after a fierce ideological struggle. She lifted it into the sea.

Baines and Ada formed a happy family. Ada made a living by teaching piano. Baines asked someone to make a silver fingerstall for her. Whenever the silver fingerstall collided with the keys, it always made a strange sound, which was integrated into the beautiful and harmonious notes of the piano, creating another perfect melody. Ada also gradually began to learn to speak, but her voice was horribly thick. She just spoke alone in the dark and poured out her heart.

Jane campion's Piano Lesson is an almost perfect female film. The so-called women's film means that it shows people that it is no longer the confrontation between women and men in the secular sense, but the process of reconciliation between women with inner independence and spiritual self-sufficiency after struggling. If you like, you can also think of it as a growing movie. The growth mentioned here does not mean the youth growth from the juvenile world to the adult world in the usual sense, but a mature person, a mature woman, how to seek a balance in the conflict between the living environment and the spiritual world, so as to obtain inner peace. The film sets the environment as a claustrophobic island, just to let everything settle down. In such a stage, there is no sound, only melody, and everyone is suffering silently. However, after turning the struggle into helplessness, they are intoxicated with the dance.

Director jane campion once said, "The deeper I think about the script, the more I understand that there must be an object to endow this story with particularity. In many schemes, I chose piano, which can be said to be the mysterious creation of human hands, and it is a symbol of civilization. Visually speaking, the piano is in sharp contrast with the life of New Zealand aborigines. Romantic passion exists in our life, and sometimes we live for it. Although I believe that this is not a completely wise way of life and understand that the results it brings are often dangerous, I will still cherish it and believe it is a symbol of great courage. "

The plot gradually enters the realm of sexual commotion and sensuality, and there is no contrast between affectation and artificiality in this process. All three reflect their own humanity: hard farming is Ada's husband's life philosophy; Baines is like an uncivilized virgin forest, full of uncultivated wildness and instinct; Ada's fascination with piano is that playing the piano makes up for her language barrier. The attraction of primitive beauty, like the classical charm of piano, has irresistible magic power to human nature. Hunter plays Ada, although there is no line, but her passion is full, and her expressive force is almost equal to shouting. Parkun's daughter is even more unusual. She inherits her mother's strong personality, and she also carries a religious paranoia and a strategist's independent opinion. Both of them won Oscars. The film's observation of the heroine's "cheating on the wall" is mostly from the perspective of children, so its style has a mysterious and ambiguous depth. The film and Farewell My Concubine won the Cannes Palme d 'Or Award.