The Piano

        The relationship between Ada and Baines starts out very odd. He immediately is attracted to her, and that attraction turns into an admiration. Some say he was just attracted to her piano playing skills. But at in any case he knows what he wants, and that’s her. He takes the piano away from her, then offers it back, but only if he can admire her a little closer. She agrees. 

        Baines inches closer and closer to physical intimacy with his requests of Ada, until finally that is his exact request. He does not request sex, but to lie down naked next to one another. Now these next few moments in the movie I find to be verging on rape. I do not believe that at any point in the film Baines rapes Ada. Rape is roughly defined as one individual forcing another to participate in a sexual act, without one of the person’s consent, conscious consent that is.

         Every time her and Baines performed a sexual act together she did agree and she was completely of a sound mind. Furthermore they did not actually act in a complete sexual manner until it was actually Ada’s idea. So no I do not believe that Baines (George as they refer to him sometimes) raped Ada, while Stewart is another story completely. 

        Before I end this post I would like to explain the relationship development between Baines and Ada a little better. Like I said before Baines was immediately smitten for Ada. But for Ada the feelings didn't come about until after he sort of 'let her go', I'm not sure whether it was the feeling that she had to have what she couldn't have, or what, they did not explain what changed her mind too well. But she fell for him just as he did for her. She became a different person, doing anything and everything to get to see Baines, she would even ignore her child, which she was very close to in the beginning of the film, she risked a lot. 

        Now the feeling of love was mutual, I think the build up to their 'relationship' was good on timing but lacked details. Again I couldn't actually tell you why she changed her mind about Baines but by the end watching them fight for their love was quite sweet.