There is a kind of silence without sound. It is like being in a cold tomb
in a cold tomb, on the deep sea floor
-Thomas Hood (UK, 1798-1845)
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time distance from the movie "Piano Lesson" More than 10 years have passed since its release, but when reviewing this movie, I was still deeply moved by it again. After telling the story of silence and passion for two hours, a little poem called "Silent" by the British poet Thomas Hood appeared at the end of the film. It was the heroine Ida’s heart whispering:
"When the night is quiet, I think of my piano buried on the bottom of the sea. Sometimes, it seems that I’m floating on top of it. The bottom of the sea is silent, urging people to fall asleep, that’s one This kind of weird lullaby is my lullaby. There is a kind of silence without sound, another kind of silence without sound, just like in a cold tomb, on the deep seabed..." It
is a pure voice like a child . The voice after the passion subsided. Calm, but full of the joy of life. Then there was silence. silence. Close the curtain for this beautiful movie that makes you cry.
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Another translation of this movie is called "Piano Love", which uses a woman's strange love as the main story line: the
heroine Ida lost her voice at the age of 6 and lives in a silent world. She couldn't express herself in voice, and silence seemed to be her destiny. Until she learned how to play the piano and use music to communicate with the world. The story begins with her unexpected marriage.
Ada's father married her away to a deserted island and married a man whom she had never met before. In order to obey her father's order, she took her daughter and a piano across the ocean and went to the desert island to marry the man. What she did not expect was that the man who would become her husband did not understand her and left her beloved piano alone on the beach.
Ada turns to Bein, an illiterate islander, to take her to play the piano on the beach. Bein was moved by Ada's love for the piano, and was deeply attracted by this pale and weak woman. He used land in exchange for the piano from Ada's husband, and pursued Ada on the grounds of inviting Ada to teach piano.
Ada is an angel. She was silenced by God. She was delicate and pale on the outside, but very stubborn on the inside. She was moved by Bain's weird and sincere way of pursuing, and the passion of mind and body was awakened. She threw herself into this love desperately.
Their love was finally discovered by Ada's husband. The man was frustrated because he couldn't enter Ada's world, and he was surprised and angry because Ada's heart was taken away by others. After several obstacles were ineffective, he fell into a desperate rage, picked up the axe, and dragged the skinny Ada to the outside of the house.
What a moving scene followed. Ada's finger was chopped off by her husband's axe. In the wind and rain, her pale face was covered with mud. But there was no panic, not even an expression, only a heartbreaking peace on his face.
mystery. Passion. Heartbroken.
The story continues. Ada and Bei traveled far away because of love. At sea, Ida suddenly insisted on throwing the piano into the sea. At the moment when the piano fell into the sea, Ida's ankle was entangled by the rope, unintentionally or intentionally, and she was dragged into the water by the piano.
Ada continued to sink in the sea. The sea is getting darker and darker, and the surroundings are getting quieter and quieter. Darkness and silence are such a dazzling temptation, a sinking temptation. After a moment of trance and hesitation, Ada broke free of the rope and swam back to the surface.
Ada’s mind is saying, “What a dangerous death, what a great opportunity, and what a wonderful surprise. It was my will that chose life.”
Yes, it was her will that chose life, and her mind. I chose light, passion and joy.
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Piano lesson is a movie full of metaphors. If silence corresponds to death and darkness, then music and passion are life and light.
Ada's world is closed. The piano is a tool for her to communicate with the outside world and the key to her heart. When Ada's husband left her piano on the beach, he had actually lost the possibility of communicating with his wife, Ada. But the illiterate Bein found the key. In English, key and key are one word. In the film, they are cleverly connected.
Bein uses the piano to approach Ada, his behavior is obviously erotic, but it is powerful. He looks rough, but in fact delicate. His transformation of Ada from intrusion, possession to understanding and caring made him successfully break Ada's heart. As for Ada, the silent destiny keeps her heart closed. Music is not only her savior, but also invisibly suppresses the passion of her life itself. It was this strange love with Bein that allowed her to free herself from the siege of silence and the bondage of music, to discover the passion hidden in her body, and to find the true light and joy.
For Ada, what is light? Was it the blurry world she saw through her fingers, the throbbing she felt in the dark sea, or the wonderful illusion when she put on a headscarf and was kissed by her lover and touched her cheek in the dark?
What is joy? Was it her anticipation when she hurried through the dark forest to meet with Bein, the sweet smile she had when she played the piano for a day on the beach, or the unstoppable whisper she had made when she had sex with Bein for so many years?
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film "Piano Lesson" is so moving, it has been widely acclaimed in all geographies of the world, and has won many awards and honors:
In 1993, "Piano Lesson" competed with "Farewell My Concubine" at the 46th Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d’Or In 1994, "Piano Lesson" won the 66th Oscar for Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay. It won 8 nominations in that year's Oscars, and it was a favorite for winning bids. If it weren’t for Spielberg’s epic work "Schindler’s List" (the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Photography, and Best Original Music Awards were all taken away by the "Sin" film), it would have won It must be more...
The music of "Piano Lesson" is pretty good. The theme soundtrack is titled "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (The Heart Asks Pleasure First), written by British composer Michael Nyman, and is his famous film in the field of film. The melody of this piano music appears repeatedly in the film, which is heart-stirring. I thought it was a passionate music. It started in silence, sounded like a Ding Dong like running water, becoming denser and more agitated, and stopped abruptly at climax... Is this describing the life course of the mute girl Ada? Or is it the lust flowing in the metaphorical body?
The film’s photography is also very brilliant: deserted beaches, ancient blue seas and dark red sky, damp and dark forests and Ada’s hurried figure, filled with dark water and silent piano on the bottom of the sea, through the woods The sunlight is so clear that it can be captured...Such exquisite and beautiful pictures can be seen almost everywhere. The film also uses a lot of inward-looking shooting techniques to metaphor the heroine's closed heart. For example, the world seen through the crevices of the fingers, the hull seen from the sea, the blurred sea surface, the fingers that touch the keys protruding from the dark piano box...
Of course the success of the film benefits Excellent performance by the actors. Among them, the heroine Ada is the most amazing. Her actor is American actor Holly Hunter, and her performance is almost perfect. Her delicate and pale appearance and sensitive and stubborn heart were vividly interpreted by her. I believe that "Piano Lesson" met her, and she was destined to meet "Piano Lesson". Everything is met and unattainable.
This film has won a huge reputation for female director Jane Kangping. She is lucky. As the director and the scriptwriter of the film, she used her passion and talent to tell us such a moving story. So beautiful, so delicate, so affectionate. We are even more fortunate. It is precisely because of her that we have the opportunity to have such a beautiful film.
Regarding it, I will record my
feelings in this article, and end with the following words: If your heart is always in the dark, if you are still silent and painful for the autism of your heart, if you can see the sun, listen I can see the sound, but I don’t know what joy is. Then I invite you to take a look at "Piano Lesson", take a look at this movie about silence and passion, to see how a soul seeks its joy.
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