Backbencher

The movie the Piano was a decent movie. It was a story about a woman named Ada who is a Scottish widow. She is mute, and stopped talking at the age of six. Her father pushes her into a forced marriage with a man named Stewart. Stewart is from New Zealand and Ada moves in with him. Stewart refuses to bring Ada’s piano with them, and it ends up that he sells it to his neighbor, a man named Baines. The neighbor allows Ada to play at his house and a relationship forms between the two. When Stewart finds out about this, he is mad and ends up cutting off one of Ada’s fingers. Ada ends up going with Baines and as they are crossing the sea, Ada decides she wants to have the piano dumped over the side into the water. The piano is dumped and Ada gets caught in the rope tied to the piano. She is pulled under and once underwater she untangles herself and is saved. After this, the movie basically ends with Ada teaching piano lessons. She appears to be happy, and has a new fake finger. Overall, this movie was kind of weird, but I thought it was alright. I watched it with my girlfriend and she seemed to like it more than I did. Overall, I think it did an alright job of showing what life in New Zealand is like.