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Stephen Brown
LIGHTS, CAMERA,
REACTION
As her pale hands caress the cold
ivory keys, an inner fire begins to
ignite. An untapped passion, an
unsneakahle excitement for life is
waiting deep beneath the surface to
bring a moment of joy to her crumbling
world.
Masterfully played by Holly
Hunter, Ada is the main character
of Jane Campion's exhilarating
film 'The Piano." Ada is mute, has
ghost-like white skin, speaks only
through sign language to her
daughter Flora and expresses herself
only through the sounds of her
beloved piano.
Ada's silence is evocative of
classic film stars; she's mysterious
and reclusive, but she's driven and
determined. Expertly acted by
Hunter, Ada becomes a symbol of
tainted purity, death of the human
soul and life born anew during the
course of the story. It's hard to
believe the spunky-sounding
actress from "Raising Arizona,"
"Broadcast News" and this year's
"The Firm" can exercise such
restraint as she slowly reveals the
inner workings of her character.
Ada has grown up in 19th-century
Australia and has reached the
time for an arranged marriage to
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take place. She arrives on a distant
shore in New Zealand with all her
belongings, and she meets her new
husband, Stewart (Sam Neill), who
immediately decides to leave her
piano on the beach because it's too
heavy for his group of Maori
natives to carry back to his home.
An illiterate settler named
Baines (Harvey Keitel) stakes
claim to the grand instrument and
uses it as a bargaining tool with
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the piano back key by key under
the pretense of lessons for him.
Miserable in her new marriage and
hungry for her piano, she agrees.
But the supposed lessons
become more intense than she once
thought. Baines is infatuated with
Ada's enigmatic beauty and wants
sexual favors from her.
Although his proposal is initially
exploitative, Baines is-simply a
lonely, confused romantic who
wants a relationship for the first
time. Ada grows to love him, and
the two have never been so happy.
Needless to say, Stewart is dismayed
to discover his wife's infidelity,
and the brutality of his character
begins to show. The horrors
of his vengeance cut completely
into Ada's character.
For Ada, her love for the piano
has become secondary to her love
for Baines, but twists of fate reminiscent
of the best work of
Shakespeare block her hope and
happiness.
One sequence, in which her
daughter Flora, clad in angel wings
for a church pageant, delivers a
message to the wrong man at the
wrong time atop a jagged hill, possesses
extraordinary imagery.
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believes she's doing what's
right, she all but seals her mother's
impending doom.
Impressive also are the two male
performances in the film. Keitel,
known for playing Scorsese-styled
thugs and criminals, displays a real
talent as an unlikely leading man.
Neill, the gentle dinosaur digger
from a particular summer box
office hit, shows a cruel and
unfeeling side not at all expected.
"The Piano" is a spiritual experience,
filmed in muted, natural colors
and edited to perfection. The
knee-deep mud, barren trees and
fierce ocean tide constitute the
sharp, angular landscape on which
the human heart is challenged to its
limit. The gorgeous scenery is coupled
with the haunting piano
music, which adds a harrowing
core to this story of desperate
souls.
Using soft light to deliberately
disorient the audience at first,
Campion films sequences with
more clarity and more harsh realism
as the film progresses. An
opening moment seen through the
eyes of Ada's hand-covered face
chops the image she sees; and later,
the trees segment our view of life
in a similar way. By employing
these techniques, Campion leads us
through the story without spoonfeeding
us the film's hidden mysteries.
Certainly one of the year's best
films, "The Piano" is a finely tuned
masterpiece of moviemaking. It
takes the viewer to a rare place in
the human heart where love is like
a classical medley passed down
through generations.
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