QHow much sex, violence, and profanity are in this movie?
AFor detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for The Piano can be found here.
AEDITED ENDING:
After Alisdair reads a message containing on the piano key, he furiously returns home and cuts off Ada's index finger. He then sends her to Baines with her severed finger in the cloth, telling her if Ada attempts to see Baines ever again, he will chop off more fingers. After Flora screams "MOTHER!!", the screen cuts to black and the credits roll.UNCUT ENDING:
Alisdair decides to send Ada and Flora away after she recovers from her injuries. Ada, Flora, George, and the piano set sail for Nelson. Along the way, Ada announces that she wants the piano to be tossed overboard, since it is "spoiled". As the piano descends into the depths, Ada slips her foot into the rope still tied to the piano and, subsequently, she is pulled overboard with the piano. As she descends with the piano, she suddenly realizes that she still wants to live. She kicks off the boot around which the rope is caught and swims to the surface where the natives pull her back onto the boat. Ada, Flora, and George settle in Nelson. In a voiceover, Ada says that George has fashioned a metal finger for her so that she can play and teach piano and that she is learning to speak again but is shy about it. She prances on a porch, practicing her vocal sounds, her head covered so that no one can see her. George steps into the picture, and the two of them embrace. In the final scene, Ada is reflecting over her piano "in its ocean grave" and pictures herself floating above it, saying in narration that she loves the sense of silence this gives her. The scene cuts to the piano, which can be seen at the bottom of the ocean. As the camera pulls back, we see the boot that Ada kicked off, floating above the piano. As the camera continues to pull back, we see an image of Ada herself tied to the piano, dead.
QAny recommendations for movies similar to "The Piano"?
AIf by "similar", you are referring to movies where a mail-order bride travels thousands of miles to marry a man she has never met, there is the Sarah, Plain and Tall series -- Sarah, Plain and Tall (1991), Skylark (1993), and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (1999), in which a woman from Maine travels to the Kansas plains to marry a widower and mother his two children. Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) and Bride Flight (2008) also feature an (arranged) marriage, a complex love affair with dark tones, and an exotic land. Similarly, in Sweet Land (2005) a woman travels from Germany to rural Minnesota, in A Silent Love (2004) she travels from Mexico to Montreal, in Postmark Paradise (2000) she comes from the Ukraine to Michigan, in Zandy's Bride (1974) a Scandinavian woman travels from Minneapolis to a ranch in California, and in Birthday Girl (2001) a Russian girl moves to England -- all to marry men they have never met. If by "similar", however, you are referring to movies where the real star is a musical instrument, consider Le violon rouge [The Red Violin] (1998), which follows the life of a violin over 300 years. Not so much the star of the movie, the piano still plays a big role in The Pianist (2002) and Amadeus (1984), two movies about the lives of two famous classical pianists, Wladislaw Szpilman and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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