![]() And while Walter eventually yields to her demands, the moment he ejaculates, he becomes an arrogant, careless young man again. Unfortunately, her attempts at negotiating a sexual relationship with Walter are disastrous, as Erika struggles to exert her icy control over him the same way she might instruct and belittle her students. ![]() Through this we learn that, for Erika, sex and shame are hopelessly intertwined, but it's that very idea that arouses her repressed desire. We learn early on that Erika has some sexual hang-ups: she visits an adult store and watches porn in a private booth while inhaling a semen-stained tissue she sexually mutilates herself on the edge of her bath tub she urinates outside a parked car while a couple has sex inside. While her life at home lays the basic foundation for her psychology, it isn't until cocky young piano player Walter Klemmer manipulates his way into private lessons with Erika that the film veers into wildly compelling - and unsettling - territory. Erika squirms under the thumb of her mother, vacillating between simpering little girl and an adult struggling for autonomy, the way some people might play to their captors to beg release. Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her 40s, lives with her domineering mother while her father is locked away in an insane asylum. Michael Haneke explores the dynamics of power, control and gender dynamics in a relationship in his masterpiece, The Piano Teacher. ![]()
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