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In Jane Campion's film, An Angel at my Table, about the New Zealand author Janet Frame, there is a scene in girls' school where the students, the teen-age Frame among them, are sitting in chapel, enraptured, as another girl on stage is butchering this incredibly beautiful song. The scene could have been played for humor, with the girls makinig faces, but Campion wants you to understand that no matter how badly it was being sung, Frame and her classmates heard what lay beneath what they were hearing. Later in the film, Frame has graduated and has her own classroom, when the principal, a martinet, come in to observe and find fault with her teaching. In the pivotal moment of the film, and perhaps her life, she walks out of the classroom, and the school, onto the sidewalk, stripping off her shoes and walking -- in tears, but free to begin her own life -- while An die Musik soars in the background, sung this time as was meant to be.
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