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The relationship between Ada and Barnes was tense, very tense at first because he claimed her piano but that is not the first time we see them together. I believe the relationship started on the beach, when he took her and Flora to play to piano the first time, because it is there that we actually get to see the soft side of Ada as she loves to play her piano and we see Barnes' too as he is first smitten with her as she plays. The agreement of keys for kisses is a tough one to think about, because we see that she is very reluctant to do anything with him but relents because she wants to have her piano so badly, the situation of course as you know escalates into the scene when they have sex for the first time, which in my opinion she didn't agree to just because she wanted the piano, he was good to her and didn't force her to lay with him, he asked and she agreed. She could have decided that she would only have sex with him if he gave her the rest of the piano as payment but instead she only chooses ten keys, why? Cause at this moment she made the choice, that the man would literally do anything just to be with her and after they have sex he decides that there will be no more bargaining, she'll either choose him or never see him again and she does, she chooses against her marriage and decides she actually genuinely loves this man and the piano was just an object. So no, I do not believe there was ever an instance of rape, except with Alastor attempts to have sex with Ada while she's still knocked out and for that, he deserved to be alone.

The Right Thing

I believe that the right thing to do hear is to not cry over spilled milk. The pictures on the wall of fame was not something so terribly wrong that it required a boycott of the pizzeria. Sal owned that shop and had the right to display whatever he wanted on the walls so that fact that one of his customers had to cause all that trouble about some pictures on the wall, a wall that he had no control over, makes no sense to me. The moral being don't start none, won't be none would go perfectly with this film. The fact that Radio Rashem died was awful yes but also the entire fight was unnecessary. Those men chose on their own power to enter Sal's place and start trouble, Sal didn't start the fire, he even tried to remain very calm and respectful. He would have probably listened to what the men had to say if Radio would have turned off his boom box but some things just cant be helped. Once the wheels were turning, there was nothing to stop them. It is hard to find the solution to what the "right" thing is but to me it's just minding your own and let the world go round. Don't cry over spilled milk.

The Turncoat Caravel

The scene I've selected is the scene in the desert just after the death of the third gun master where the group was sitting in the desert and then suddenly just start making out with each other. I believe that this is the essence of the entire film, as it changes and evolves so quickly that the characters literally are changing alliances at the drop of a hat and we see that in this scene specifically. The scene begins with the connection between the two women, which pretty much develops from no where but yet they run off together after the presumed death of the lead character. The camera does close ups on them individual followed by a medium shot as they begin to make out so that in that moment we see that they've pretty much chosen each other over the man, until one of the women tries to keep her hold over the man by switching over to him. When we see those two together the camera gives us the depth shot so that we see the other woman staring down on them with her jealousy and this is pretty much a foreshadow of "I want this man dead." So this scene is a point to contention in the film, we know that something is brewing between the two women and that the man is going mad with guilt of the tricks he performed on the guns masters and now looks pretty weak to the women, so his life is now in danger.

Seconds, The Surgery.

The first scene of surgery when Arthur becomes Tony was, in my opinion, pretty advanced for its time, even though there was no blood or faceless body such as in Face Off but to some that could have been a very hard thing to watch during the time period. It was full of close ups on different parts of the body that would be receiving alterations as well as, on the plans that compared the old Arthur to the new Tony. The close ups on the various body parts made us understand the gravity of the process that was about to be done to Arthur, he was able to be completely transformed into the drawing on the paper next to the surgery team. It was as if someone was going to be creating their masterpiece with the fine attention to detail in both the drawing and the way the surgery was performed, meticulous and careful. This was a statement to art at the time, how it had become a craft of sophisticated tools rather than genuine creativity, Arthur's new body was planned and executed to the tee and though he became a work of art it was not genuinely inspired by anything except the Company's order to fill.  The music during the scene also set the mood for the scene, it made us feel on edge and suspenseful because this scene was crucial to the rest of the film, it had to be believable or the whole premise of the plot goes for nothing. As I said before this scene was probably the most important in the entire film so to really draw your audience in the music had to be something that was not totally scary but something that was just enticing enough to make sure they didn't want to look away.