Following some interesting feedback on facebook, I thought I should comment on the shots of Ada under the sea right at the end of the film, too.
For me, this is one of (at least) three alternative endings - i.e., that she in fact died when she chose to follow her piano under the sea. However, in terms of my reading of the film, I see it as one of the (two) imagined - or fantasy - endings the film offers us, after Ada in fact dies at the hands of her angry husband. That is, this image offers us perhaps Ada's preferred ending, while the images of Ada, Baines and Flora happy together in a new city offer us an alternative ending that is perhaps what Baines, Flora and/or mainstream narrative film might prefer.
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