Before the piano is thrown over, Ada makes a hand movement while touching the water. She does this same hand movement while touching different things several times in the film. I think this hand movement indicates she has a desire for the object.
shareWell, i also loved those hand movements. But my view is different about her hand movement.
She was planning this all up in her head. She asked Baines to throw over the piano to the sea. She deliberately strangled her foot in the ropes to be pulled by the weight of piano. She had planned to die with the piano in the deep ocean.
But her luck pulled her out, as she was going on low oxygen, and she fought for the life. Her show got off and she swam up to the surface and breathed. The people pulled her up in the boat. Those wordings there were so much deep.
What a death
What a chance
What a surprise
My will has chosen life?
Every word of it was deep. Every word had a whole book in it. Every word had a whole sea of words in it.
She was so dreary and wretched that she chose death, but in this musical beauty, that death was such a beautiful thing. It was all sweet. If you involve in the movie, you will feel a hush of peace inside you when she got rid of her pains throwing herself in the sea.
But her struggle for air, freed her from her shoe and she swam up the surface. What a chance it was? Wasn't this beautiful?
What a surprise? Life gave her another chance to live despite she had been a infidel to her husband.
This was all music and this was the main theme of movie.