"The Piano" ( Dir. Jane Campion )

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"INTRODUCTION
Jane Campion's film The Piano creates a series of oppositions and uses them to advance the narrative and to indicate certain thematic concerns on the part of the filmmaker. The story unfolds as a series of meetings and confrontations in which these oppositions are evoked. Opposing forces are shaped around individual characters who confront one another or interact in ways that conflict. The film sets up a series of contrasts, or oppositions, between other elements as well--interior versus exterior setting, interior versus exterior psychology, Scotland versus New Zealand, male versus female, self-absorption versus love, and so on.

The opening of the film sets up a contrast between the visual and the verbal that is carried throughout the film and.."

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