Importantly, one of the critical themes that emerge in The Piano is related to feminism. In this regard, this film explores the challenges that women face in society as far as sexuality is concerned. In particular, the film promotes the aspect that in the traditional society, patriarchy ruled the woman’s life to the point of making critical decisions for women such as marriage. For example, from the film, Ada’s father marries her off to a man she was not acquainted with. Therefore, she does not make her own choice as far as her sexual life is concerned. Whereas this is the case, one of the aspects the Campion emphasises in the film is the fact that despite the challenges that women go through in life, they can still find their redemption from the cruelty of a man’s world. Notably, whereas most works of art that portray the plight of women in society only focus on cruelty that encounter in their lives on a daily basis, most often fail to show women overcoming such cruelty. In other others, most of these creative works only manages to raise awareness on the challenges that women face in society without necessarily indicating whether it is possible for women to overcome such challenges. However, in the case of The Piano, Campion shows at the end of the this film that Ada manages to come out of the arranged marriage and get married to Baines, the man she truly loved in her life. Furthermore, at the end of this film, Campion captures Ada learning to play the piano again after replacing her disfigured finger that was chopped off by her husband as a punishment with a silver prosthesis. Therefore, through her work, Campion promotes the aspect that despite going through challenges that undermine their status in society, women can still emerge as victors through persistence.
重要的是，钢琴中出现的一个关键主题与女权主义有关。在这方面，这部电影探讨了女性在性方面所面临的社会挑战。特别是，这部电影将传统社会中父权制主宰女性生活的一面推广到为女性做出诸如婚姻等关键决定的地步。例如，在电影中，艾达的父亲把她嫁给了一个她不认识的男人。因此，就她的性生活而言，她没有做出自己的选择。尽管如此，坎皮恩在电影中强调的一个方面是，尽管女性在生活中经历了种种挑战，但她们仍然可以从残酷的男性世界中找到救赎。值得注意的是，尽管大多数描绘妇女在社会中的困境的艺术作品只关注她们日常生活中遭遇的残酷，但大多数作品往往无法展示妇女克服这种残酷的一面。在另一些，大多数这些创造性作品只是设法提高人们对妇女在社会中面临的挑战的认识，而不一定表明妇女是否有可能克服这些挑战。然而，在钢琴的例子中，坎皮恩在电影的结尾展示了艾达成功地摆脱了包办婚姻，嫁给了贝恩斯，她一生中真正爱的男人。此外，在这部电影的结尾，坎皮恩捕捉到了艾达在用一个银色假肢替换被丈夫砍下的毁容手指后再次学习钢琴的情景。因此，通过她的工作，坎皮恩促进了这样一个方面，即尽管经历了破坏其社会地位的挑战，但妇女仍然可以通过坚持成为胜利者。
An analysis of the feminism theme in Campion’s film, The Piano, reveals a number of issues concerning Hollywood cinema. To begin with, The Piano is critical to understanding of Hollywood cinema as a platform for alternative public sphere. Researchers and scholars agree that for the work of art to be perceived as an alternative public sphere, it must be able to provide a platform for individuals in society with identical challenges to come together and discuss such challenges without any external influence or limitations and as such, focus on ways of addressing them. With this in mind, Campion’s work and as such, Hollywood Cinema, provides a platform for women to discuss different issues that affect them especially with regard to sexuality. Notably, in the traditional society, women are forbidden from seeking companionship and sex outside their marriages irrespective of whether they are happy or not. For example, one would expect that in the society that Ada was living in, she was bound to her husband despite the fact that by the time she falls in love with Baines, she had not had any sexual relations with her husband. Note that her husband was more committed to making more money from his land than in ensuring her happiness. Therefore, The Piano plays a critical role in promoting the aspect that Hollywood cinema has grown into an alternative public space that marginalised groups in society can discuss pertinent issues that concerns them without the fear of restraint. For instance, women, irrespective of their social status, have an opportunity through The Piano to discuss whether they are the property of men, and how they can free themselves from the traditional shackles that make men perceive them as property and sexual objects rather than being respected as human beings.
对坎皮恩电影《钢琴》中的女权主义主题的分析揭示了一些与好莱坞电影有关的问题。首先，钢琴是理解好莱坞电影作为另类公共领域平台的关键。研究人员和学者们一致认为，艺术作品要被视为一个另类的公共领域，就必须能够为社会中面临相同挑战的个人提供一个平台，让他们在没有任何外部影响或限制的情况下聚集在一起讨论这些挑战，并因此专注于解决这些挑战的方式。考虑到这一点，Campion的作品以及好莱坞电影为女性提供了一个平台，让她们讨论影响她们的各种问题，尤其是性方面的问题。值得注意的是，在传统社会，妇女被禁止在婚姻之外寻求伴侣和性，无论她们是否幸福。例如，有人会认为，在Ada生活的社会中，她与丈夫有着紧密的联系，尽管事实上，在她爱上贝恩斯时，她与丈夫没有任何性关系。注意，她的丈夫更致力于从他的土地上赚更多的钱，而不是确保她的幸福。因此，钢琴在推动好莱坞电影发展成为另一种公共空间方面发挥着关键作用，社会边缘群体可以在不受约束的情况下讨论与他们相关的问题。例如，妇女，不论其社会地位如何，都有机会通过钢琴讨论她们是否是男人的财产，以及她们如何摆脱传统的束缚，使男人将她们视为财产和性对象，而不是被尊重为人。
The acceptance of The Piano among different audiences and particularly among the feminists also raises this film’s significance for understanding censorship as an aspect of Hollywood cinema. Notably, since its establishment in the early 20th century, the film and cinema industry has consistently raised concerns regarding the content and themes that are appropriate for society. In this regards, there have been consistent debates from different quarters regarding what film producers and directors ought to permit in their work in order to refrain from offending the target audiences. In the past, Hollywood cinema was perceived as a form of media that promotes women delinquency in society and as such, film directors and producers were encourage to rewrite and edit scripts to ensure that the content they produced appealed to everyone in society. However, the increasing appreciation of Campion and her work, particularly, The Piano, is an indication that Hollywood cinema is growing away from adhering to “censorship standards” of the conservatives in society to creating content the goes against societal expectation in order to address different pertinent issues that affect different groups in society.
不同观众，特别是女权主义者对钢琴的接受也提高了这部电影对于理解好莱坞电影审查制度的重要性。值得注意的是，自20世纪初成立以来，电影业一直关注适合社会的内容和主题。在这方面，不同方面一直在就电影制片人和导演在工作中应该允许哪些内容以避免冒犯目标观众进行辩论。过去，好莱坞电影被视为一种促进社会中女性犯罪的媒体形式，因此，鼓励电影导演和制片人重写和编辑剧本，以确保他们制作的内容吸引社会上的每一个人。然而，随着对坎皮恩及其作品，尤其是钢琴作品的日益欣赏，这表明好莱坞电影正在从遵守社会保守派的“审查标准”转向创造违背社会期望的内容，以解决影响社会不同群体的不同相关问题。