Tales of the trio
Many years ago I saw a movie that touched me in an unexpected way.
In a far away unknown land in a distant sea, white men had occupied an island. But it is the story of a woman and her daughter that interests and the woman’s love for her piano. The piano haunts her dreams and she caresses it like a lover.
When she is unceremoniously sent by her father to marry an uninspired man in the far away islands, the piano cannot follow and stays on the beach. She dreams of her piano. The people cannot understand this unconventional woman with no words.
A native man takes her and her daughter for a day to visit the piano on the beach and that’s when we hear the sound of joy. The purest joy. And only this man with Maori markings on his face has heard and understood the voice of this silent woman.
He falls in love with the strange and beautiful. And here the tumultuous relationship begins and creates an adulterer. Only when the uninspired husband finds out and cuts one of her fingers off with an ax does he learn of her wild heart. She cannot change it as one cannot change the tide.
Enchanting, dark, beautiful, melancholy are words I think sit comfortably with this movie. And I recommended it to my parents, who by then were estranged. But to my shock did they take my mothers lover. It has always been a strange trio. But I can only imagine the awkwardness that must have followed when the credits rolled.
But I also think it so fitting for them all to sit in a darkened theatre to watch this petite woman with dark hair and eyes. Transform into the woman who follows her desires. And to see the uninspired husband let her go freely into the arms of another.
Even with a new lover, the piano is her first love. She releases it into the sea and thinks to go with it. But her wild spirit surprises even herself with that will to go on. What lies beneath the surface of a personality is sometimes more complex, rich and wonderful than expected.
In a far away unknown land in a distant sea, white men had occupied an island. But it is the story of a woman and her daughter that interests and the woman’s love for her piano. The piano haunts her dreams and she caresses it like a lover.
When she is unceremoniously sent by her father to marry an uninspired man in the far away islands, the piano cannot follow and stays on the beach. She dreams of her piano. The people cannot understand this unconventional woman with no words.
A native man takes her and her daughter for a day to visit the piano on the beach and that’s when we hear the sound of joy. The purest joy. And only this man with Maori markings on his face has heard and understood the voice of this silent woman.
He falls in love with the strange and beautiful. And here the tumultuous relationship begins and creates an adulterer. Only when the uninspired husband finds out and cuts one of her fingers off with an ax does he learn of her wild heart. She cannot change it as one cannot change the tide.
Enchanting, dark, beautiful, melancholy are words I think sit comfortably with this movie. And I recommended it to my parents, who by then were estranged. But to my shock did they take my mothers lover. It has always been a strange trio. But I can only imagine the awkwardness that must have followed when the credits rolled.
But I also think it so fitting for them all to sit in a darkened theatre to watch this petite woman with dark hair and eyes. Transform into the woman who follows her desires. And to see the uninspired husband let her go freely into the arms of another.
Even with a new lover, the piano is her first love. She releases it into the sea and thinks to go with it. But her wild spirit surprises even herself with that will to go on. What lies beneath the surface of a personality is sometimes more complex, rich and wonderful than expected.
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