It seems that Ada's world is very beautiful and quiet, with only the piano and her daughter. She is familiar with every detail of the piano keys, and she enjoys the laughter around her daughter, but who does she communicate with and share with? nobody. Even in the sign language conversation with her daughter and the entanglement with Baines, she is not communicating, but constructing her own ideal world. Even if her real inner world is turbulent, even if the pain and desire are about to burst out, she still looks indifferent, it is not forbearance, but a kind of loneliness and self-appreciation. How can a person try to express his emotions to others when he places himself in his own ideal world? Here, I believe that Ada never feels alone, because the joy of communication is self-sufficient in her mingling with the piano. Even for Baines, that kind of love probably only begins in the body, which may lead to the spirit, but he never gets into her world. Yes, in my eyes she is such a woman, indifferent, passionate, elegant, lonely, locked in her own world, unable and unwilling to come out.
It is said that Ada is a lucky woman, not because she got love and a happy ending, but because she, a woman who lives in her own world, can have love and the happiness she finally recognizes. Her luck lies in the fact that she owns her own world, and that she has attempted, and succeeded to a certain extent, to dominate her own world, and her destiny. When Ada broke free, it meant she lost the piano, which was her tool of expression and an indispensable partner or support in her world, but she still chose to give up. I couldn't fathom the changes in her heart, and I wanted to ask: Did she decide to try to open up her world and pursue her happiness freely, the happiness that has to do with Baines, with her metal fingers, with all new things? Is it what she has been insisting on that drives her to make this choice, insisting on guarding her ideal, her lonely world? Or is it just her survival instinct, like any ordinary person?
I have no idea. It seems very poetic for such a self-appreciating woman to sleep gracefully in the blue sea, but as viewers, are we too cruel? How beautiful is the spiritual world she built by herself, with the sound of the piano, laughter, scenery, and love, why should a person with a beautiful ideal have to sacrifice for his fantasy to appear tragic? What you can't get is more valuable, but sometimes it's more real if you get it.
In Ada's spiritual world, there are things that are real, and in the real world, there are things that I don't believe.
For example, Ada's dream is very real. "At night, I think of my piano in its ocean grave, and sometimes of myself floating above it. Down there everything is so still and silent that it lulls me to sleep. It's a weird lullaby and so it is, it's mine. There is a silence where hath been no sound. There is a silence where no sound, may be in the cold grave, under the deep deep sea." The piano in the deep sea constructed every dream of her and helped her to build her new The spiritual home of her, where silence is still spreading, infecting every inch of her world, where silence becomes her lullaby, accompanying her drifting through the days and nights that follow. She got a new house, practiced her voice, and started a new life with her lover. Of course, these are part of a happy ending, but she is still continuing her life in the world, where the ideal is Ada's real world.
Such as the so-called love I do not believe. Ada's world is incompatible with New Zealand's primitive. While she is clinging to loneliness, her love with Baines only begins with her insistence on her world, which is a force that builds the world. For Baines, I don't believe in love at first sight like that. One piano lesson is replaced by one key, and one touch is replaced by one black key. Baines said that this makes him look like a whore, but this may be the case. Isn't this relationship simply started with sensuality? The movie depicts betrayal, derailment, desire, and irrationality so poetically that with a poetic illusion, people form the presupposition that there must be love between them, the kind of love that will never change at first sight. However, Ada can only construct her world with piano notes, Baines is just obsessed with this woman - even if they will be sublimated to love later - he can't understand her music and can't communicate with her through music, they are still separated from each other. In the world of the so-called Ada, this layer of separation is not something that can be dissolved by so-called love.
Between the real and the unreal, I don't make any moral judgments, I just want to feel the world of Ada for a moment, the only one that belongs to her, the world that looks beautiful and quiet, with the sound of the piano, sinking into the deep blue of the seabed , the surroundings became more and more silent.
Finally, play back a scene that touched me, it's beautiful, so I don't forget - at the seaside, Ada brushed her fingers over the long-lost piano, completely addicted to playing, the music was deep but intense, and her daughter danced happily beside her. As Baines watched from a distance. This scene, I think, seems to be the closest to Ada's world, she's the one who plays and someone approaches her world into her vision, but it's just her dancer or audience. Finally, she got up from the edge of the piano and walked into the distance, leaving a series of footprints on the beach. Her daughter got up from the beautiful pattern and caught up with her. A series of footprints merged in, and Baines' footprints joined the previous series. ——The seaside, the piano, the shells, the soft light and shadow, the perfect arc formed by the footprints, what a beautiful picture. I don't know why, there are obviously a lot of gloomy and cool-toned movies, but in the end, the soft and warm warm tones remain in my mind.
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