F06 :: Feminist Film Studies

I didn’t like the movie “The Piano� at all. I felt uncomfortable watching it and I thought the overall movie was extremely disturbing. I disliked the fact that George Baines offered Ada to give her the piano back in exchange for escalating sexual demands and instead of hating or despising him for it, she ends up loving him. It’s hard for me to understand why a woman would ever love a man who took advantage of you, black mailed you and who treated you poorly. It is said that the The Piano was a feminist film about a woman trying to maintain control over her own life in an age when women were considered the property of their husbands but I didn’t see it that at all. I saw a mute woman who would do anything for her piano and who surrendered to the men who abused her. Even though I didn’t like the movie, I still thought Jane Campion did an excellent job at directing the movie. What I liked best about the movie was the blue lighting because it made the movie more amusing and somehow different. I'm sure the movie has a lot of meaningful messages which I probably missed or didn't understand but whatever the case is, this a movie that I had a difficult time watching.