Electra Complex (PART 1 OF 4)
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Subj:I LOVED seeing
"The Piano"!
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From: diane@vancouver.ca
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Thu, Feb 9, 2012 7:51 pm.
Pacific Standard Time
Hi Kato,
How're you doing, kiddo? Keeping out of trouble, I hope.
I saw you in the library Tuesday evening as I was heading home from my Kundalini Yoga class ...what a class!
such fun.
Just wanted to let you know I LOVED seeing "The Piano" again after all these years and thanks so much for bringing it to my attention.
I don't actually remember it being so erotic, but it certainly was as exciting as you said.
Awesome photography, great acting, just great, and a quirky story to boot.
My boyfriend was over last night.
I made a delicious chicken tetrazzini and he loved it.
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I was telling him I was half-way through this DVD and it intrigued him, he wanted to watch it.
So we did & he loved it.
He's a serious cinephile.
unfortunately, just at a critical spot the DVD or the player (I don't know which) went on the fritz and we couldn't make out anything from the scramble.
So, we don't know how it ended.
We got to the point where her husband says, "I trusted you! I trusted you!"
He has just intercepted the key sent to Baines with the enscription of love on it.
The husband goes beserk and knocks her around ... and ...the machine goes on the fritz.
Do you remember, Kato, how it ended?
Just a brief summary would be great.
I recall something about her ending up with Baines, minus a finger?
Is this correct?
Any help you could give would be much appreciated, of course.
You're an amazing sleuth.
Love, Diane ~
Oh, too bad. The machine went on the fritz, eh? So, you didn't see the last part, did you?
No, I didn't. How did it end?
I've already told you about it. Don't you remember?
No, I don't...'cause I was preoccupied with my own piano lesson.
My mind was somewhere in the heaven. :)Well...it goes like this:
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Ada sends her daughter with a package for Baines, containing a single piano key with an inscribed love declaration that says "dear George, you will have my heart, Ada McGrath".
Flora has begun to accept Alistair as her "papa" and is angered by her mother's infidelity.
She brings the piano key instead to Alistair.
After reading the love note burnt onto the piano key, Alistair furiously returns home and cuts off Ada's index finger with an axe to deprive her of the ability to play her piano.
He then sends Flora to Baines with the severed finger wrapped in cloth, with the message that if Baines ever attempts to see Ada again, he will chop off more fingers.
After Ada recovers from her injury, Alistair sends her and Flora away with Baines and dissolves their marriage. They depart from the same beach on which she first landed in New Zealand.
While being rowed to the ship with her baggage and the piano tied onto a Maori longboat, Ada feels that the piano is ruined as she can no longer play and insists that Baines throw the piano overboard.
As it sinks, she deliberately puts her foot into the loop of rope trailing overboard.
She is rapidly pulled deep underwater connected by the rope to the piano — but then she changes her mind and kicks free to be pulled back into the boat.
In an epilogue, she describes her new life with Baines and Flora in Nelson, where she has started to give piano lessons in their new home, and her severed finger has been replaced with a silver finger made by Baines.
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I see...so, they ended up with a sea of happiness, didn't they?
Yes, you're absolutely right. By the way, Diane, did you see "A dangerous Method"?
Yes, I did. I've already told you about it. Don't you remember, Kato?
Well, I was preoccupied with "The Piano."
Don't pull my leg, kiddo.
How did you like it?
Well...it was quite interesting, but more shocking than I expected.
Oh...in what way?
You see, Kato... I'm always trying to be open-minded, but while I was watching the movie, I thought Sabina Spielrein---a patient and a heroine---went too far...too far beyond my understanding.
A Dangerous Method
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A Dangerous Method is a 2011 historical film directed by David Cronenberg and starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Vincent Cassel.
The screenplay was adapted by Academy Award-winning writer Christopher Hampton from his 2002 stage play The Talking Cure, which was based on the 1993 non-fiction book by John Kerr, A Most Dangerous Method: the story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein.
The film marks the third consecutive and overall collaboration between Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen (after A History of Violence and Eastern Promises).
This is also the third Cronenberg film made with British film producer Jeremy Thomas, after completing together the William Burroughs adaptation Naked Lunch and the J.G. Ballard adaptation Crash.
A Dangerous Method was a German/Canadian co-production.
The film premiered at The 68th Venice Film Festival and was also featured at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
Plot
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Set on the eve of World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between Carl Jung, founder of analytical psychology, Sigmund Freud, founder of the discipline of psychoanalysis, and Sabina Spielrein, initially a patient of Jung and later a physician and one of the first female psychoanalysts.
A Dangerous Method
2011 Official Trailer
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SOURCE: "A Dangerous Method"
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(To be continued)