Best movie of this year hands down!

Undescribable Perfection

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

I'm a man and I disliked the move. I don't know whether I disliked it more than The Piano Teacher but it is certain that Holly Hunter's indifferent, unlikable and unsympathetic character is on par with Isabelle Huppert's. I'm not going to write a review, there were many already. I found it more interesting to read the reviews and peruse their emotions.My own emotions evolved thus during the movie: 1. Wonderment; for the beautiful opening photography of powerful waves crashing on the virginal beach, the anticipation of tantamount protraction. 2. Bewilderment; why would anyone like to live in mud surrounded decrepit shacks with abiding rain? 3. Apprehension; for how unsympathetic the characters had become, and how indifferent I feel. 4. Repugnance; for the carnal affair devoid of love or tenderness, and demeaning and gratuitous nudity. 5. Loathing; for the movie's incoherence and unintelligibility, it's defiance of logic and for braking the opening promise, and most of all for the bad taste in my mouth when the movie credits started rolling on.The movie certainly elicits strong emotions. Women: "Men who did not like the movie are 19th century troglodytes who believe women's place is in the kitchen". Un inane and extraneous comment in itself. Men: "I wish Ada had drowned along with her piano". How strong must a person feel to wish for the heroine to be dead?Is it that that men cannot really understand women? Is it that that we are wrong thinking of women as ethereal beings in need of our love and protection?If what move portrays is what women dream of and fantasise about; men, how wrong we are in our strives in dating, and worse yet, marriage?

Trouble in paradise develops as a newly married mute piano player and a rough farmhand forms a bond over a piano off the coast of New Zealand. The Piano is a great example of an autopilot Oscar-bait film that sadly felt dated today. It just felt very clunky and lacks a visual language to further its simplistic story line about betrayal and self-discovery. In addition, a very questionable romantic/jovial tone somewhat diminish its self-discovery story line and somewhat makes me not take the film very seriously. Nevertheless, the film boast great cinematography and fabulous acting from Hunter, Neill and Keitel. I just wished this film was given a different direction. Very disappointing for a Cannes and Oscars BP Winner[2.5/5]

This may be one of my favourite love tragedies. The script is just wonderful - a classic story, a woman is married to a stranger into a foreign land and the only thing she has is not her voice, it's her music. The combination of art and romance and tragedy makes me wonder, doesn't this portray the usual life of women in the past? Being sold off to men who couldn't care less about them, but just care that their wife is their property, not to be touched or seen, not a real human with real feelings. I think that this is a story of finding yourself, of finding what really life has planned for you, it teaches that is is okay to change ones mind - only if it is not too late to do so. This story is about great misery, but also great love - the kind that prevails everything, makes that same misery disappear and makes you see just how happy you can be even when something seems to be missing from you (literally). This film keeps you on your toes, makes you wonder and fantasize about what is going to happen next, and when it happens you think - I couldn't have been more wrong.

The Piano is considered a most romantic movie. And in a way it is, but not really in the classic use of the word "romantic."The characters are far from two dimensional, with ups and downs, highs and lows; both good and bad. No one is just one thing and it is a very fresh, raw take on humanity. The script colors their characters beautifully, and the story has many different aspects. But the one that stands out most, as it should, is Holly Hunter's journey from saddened, numbed woman to vibrant lover of life.The men that desire her are scoundrels and undeserving of her, and yet both are good men in their own ways. Patient, kind, understanding. It's interesting to see how and why both of these men want this woman who has abandoned all hope of ever loving anyone other than her daughter ever again. Hunter's character is an enigma. She can love fiercely on one end of the spectrum but she cannot hate. She also doesn't realize that she has a say in her life until she falls for one of the men who desire her. This movie is odd to say the least. Each time you view it you will think differently of all of the characters. You will never be quite sure who the villain is or who the hero is. But you can be sure that it is a gripping original take on love and starting over. 7.8/10