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The ending of Jane Campion's "The Piano" has an attempted suicide by drowning, as Ada(the protagonist) witnesses her piano being unloaded into the sea in her consent and then intentionally slots one foot into the stack of ropes. She nearly drowns until a sudden moment of self-realization amidst the water which leads her to struggle for life, and to emerge from the waters, almost like a baptismal candidate. But Ada, even after her survival, still continues to have a fantasy in her mind of herself suspended above her piano by a rope which is tied to her piano's feet. She claims that it is a dream with a strange lullaby that lulls her to sound sleep. Kevin