Marrying a Woman Far Away (Piano Lesson & Out of Africa)

Abe 2022-03-24 09:02:13

I watched the piano class a long time ago, and I was not very impressed. I watched it three times when I was out of Africa. I watched it with my mother when I was a child. I can't remember the plot. Maybe because I was attracted by the African scene, I kept asking my mother the name of the movie. So with the long memory of the name of the movie in my mind, I watched it again, but after the second time I still have a shallow memory of the plot, because I didn't remember my past until the third time I watched it today. Have seen it more than once.
So after watching it for the third time, I didn't like this movie very much. I liked the African landscape very much, but I didn't like the hero and the heroic ending of the western movie. I feel the same way about the years of love. But in all three films, there is a woman who is married far away, and both piano lessons and Out of Africa begin with the woman's expedition to marry.
Marrying in a different place may not have been such an exploratory thing for women at that time. Because living with one's own husband is a matter of course and important, but marrying far away is not a factor for a woman to choose who to marry. So the dumb girl Ada took her heavy piano, and Karen took her crystals and porcelain, and married to a primitive land that was not only far away, but also had a completely different culture and could not even communicate with the local indigenous people.
Women who have married in the past are considered to make an effort to integrate into the new environment. But women who marry far do have a little bit of resistance in their hearts. It is precisely because of this completely different environment that if they don't keep a little bit of themselves, they may not be able to find themselves. The piano is obviously Ellen's sustenance and self-protection. Karen is not as closed as Ellen, but she is reluctant to change her behavior. She would rather use change instead of being changed. And their husbands, as part of the local culture that helped and oversaw their adaptation, became opponents of the opposite, judged and imposed higher expectations than husbands. Then, after the disappointment of her long-out husband, another bosom friend appeared. The man who represents the local culture but loves the culture in her, Bein admires the way Ellen plays the piano, Dennis supports and praises Karen for taking the servants to Naikawa Lake alone (everyone thinks she shouldn't go or may be available). See who the heroines end up falling in love with.
Finally, the heroine adapts to the environment under the guidance of this man. Karen was no longer so stubborn and stubborn, and began to advocate nature. Alan threw the piano to test whether he really abandoned the past and could not live. Of course this is a process, a process that takes time.
When Karen said that she wanted to build a lake around the monopoly creek, her loyal domestic servant Farah said This water must go home to Mombasa. This water lives at Mombasa. And when the movie flooded at the end, Karen also recognized this Viewpoint, give up the fence and say This water lives in Mombasa anyway.
Since the hometown of these waters is so important, since Dennis can love the land of Africa so much, why can't it explain that the leylines are a very deep belief. And the sacrifice of marrying away is so understated.

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Out of Africa quotes

  • Denys: I won't be closer to you and I won't love you *more* because of a piece of paper.

  • [about to leave Africa, Karen Blixen gives Denys' compass to Farah]

    Karen Blixen: This is very dear to me. It has helped me to find my way.

    Farah: Thank you, Msabu.

    [She goes to board the train. Looks back at him]

    Karen Blixen: I want to hear you say my name.

    Farah: You are Karin, Msabu.