Responses to the Piano by Will Martin https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg Who are the main characters and what is your reaction to them? What was your emotional reaction to the film? Did you recognise any stylistic features reminiscent of other Jane Campion films? What themes / issues have arisen from the first viewing? en-us 2017-05-28 23:27:11 UTC 2025-10-09 15:02:58 UTC hello@padlet.com Looks through curtains or forest https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169473 2017-05-28 23:59:51 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169473 Large range of shots shown of different landscapes (fields, beach, forest) https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169487 2017-05-29 00:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169487 Long shot from cliff looking down https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169500 2017-05-29 00:00:20 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169500 Shots that focus on what the hands are doing ie stirring tea which kind of makes the scene awkward and emphasises the silence https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169512 2017-05-29 00:00:30 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169512 Lots of close up shots on Ada's face https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169525 2017-05-29 00:00:43 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169525 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169533 Good good relations between Māori and Pakeha 

]]> 2017-05-29 00:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169533 I felt very uncomfortable when the husband cut off her finger https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169542 2017-05-29 00:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169542 Why does it have to be set in this time period? https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169558 2017-05-29 00:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169558 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169565 Ada and Baines relationship, confusing? Why did she end up falling for him? ]]> 2017-05-29 00:01:08 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169565 Lots of natural lighting shots https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169587 2017-05-29 00:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169587 Overall film made me feel uncomfortable, uneasy, unsure of whose side to be on, annoyed https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169588 2017-05-29 00:01:23 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169588 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169610 Ada McGrath
Daughter - Flora McGrath
Husband - Alisdair
Creepy dude - George Baines

]]> 2017-05-29 00:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169610 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169623 Always raining, cold weather, muddy.]]> 2017-05-29 00:02:02 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169623 After Alisdair cuts off Ada's finger and goes to shoot George he realizes that this situation has made him into someone he doesn't want to be - in his eyes it was his wife that made him turn into a monster which is why he so easily let her go off with George https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169657 2017-05-29 00:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169657 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169663 Caress the piano keys and water ]]> 2017-05-29 00:02:45 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169663 Shows the authority by men by having an arranged marriage. Ada had little control. https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169670 2017-05-29 00:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169670 What to Baines' face tattoo's represent? https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169673 2017-05-29 00:03:00 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169673 Drowns her old self and old life, rebirth out of the water, new life in Nelson. https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169704 2017-05-29 00:03:21 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169704 Janet Frame's sisters drowned and she nearly drowned https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169832 2017-05-29 00:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169832 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169897 2017-05-29 00:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169897 Purposely gets tangled but as she is drowning she finds her will to live https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169935 2017-05-29 00:06:28 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169935 No emotion or sound when her finger got cut off https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169939 2017-05-29 00:06:33 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169939 Confused as the main reason she didn't speak https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169959 2017-05-29 00:06:49 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169959 Flora changed a lot throughout the film as at the end she called Alisdair "Father" and at the beginning she said she'd never call him Father. When she finally trusts him and respects him enough to tell him about Ada's message, he betrays her and hurts her mother https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169970 2017-05-29 00:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169970 Alisdair thought he could hear Ada's voice in his mind?? https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169975 2017-05-29 00:06:59 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174169975 I didn't really like any of the characters https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170018 2017-05-29 00:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170018 Her voice sounds childlike at the end. https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170051 2017-05-29 00:08:14 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170051 The characters weren't likeable 130522 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170060 2017-05-29 00:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170060 Because Ada doesn't talk, it is hard to understand/know her feelings for Baines. Even at the end, she purposefully got tangled up with the rope to end her life, so she must not of been completely happy with Baines even at the end. https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170140 2017-05-29 00:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170140 Ada communicates through voice over, gestures, sign language, her daughter, music and the piano https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170204 2017-05-29 00:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170204 Why did Alisdair let Ada go so easily after all the trouble he went to in order to 'keep' her 130522 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170267 2017-05-29 00:11:27 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170267 Ada was treated as property 130522 https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170413 2017-05-29 00:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/willsmartin44/aoixu14wygcg/wish/174170413