Ada chooses the silence above the waves. That is her freedom.
These video essays and discussions offer deeper visual and narrative analysis of the film's complex themes, such as the use of the 'female gaze' and the controversial parallels to earlier literature:
The Piano is not a romance. It is a poem about ownership—of land, of bodies, of voice. Ada loses a finger but finds a life. The film’s final line, delivered by Flora as voiceover: “There is a silence where hath been no sound. There is a silence where no sound may be. In the cold grave, under the deep deep sea.”
