Actors: Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Piano
An impressive erotic and sensitive tale about a woman, mute since the age of 6, who only expresses through her piano and her daughter. Ada is forced to move to New Zealand to live with a man her father made her marry with by mail. The husband leaves her piano on the beach and it's an english outcast living with the Maori who takes the piano and offers Ada an unusual proposition: she'll have the piano back if she submits to his erotic fantasies for each black key in the piano. At first Ada accepts it against her will but soon she gets fascinated by the sensual moments lived with that rude man.
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Analysis of The Piano
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Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 19th century
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- seduction (yum!)
Inner struggle or disability
Yes
Taboo Sex Story?
Yes
Kind of sex:
- really kinky sex!
Brain/Body not working?
- physical disability
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- singer/musician
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn straight
Body type
- (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed?
- Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) fat
Unclothed?
- full frontal
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- govt employee
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Setting
Asia/Pacific/Middle East
Yes
Asian country:
- Pacific Islands
Forest?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- actual description of sex
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing full frontal--men
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- English
If soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
