In this scene, Ying-ying St. Clair is on a boat with her family to go see the "Moon Lady." At one point, she is looking over the edge of the boat and into the water, when suddenly a firecracker goes off and she falls into the water. At first, she is angry for Amah not saving her, but then when she is picked up by a fishing boat and taken to go find her family, she doesn't find them and feels alone and lost, never to be her original self again. The song "The Lonely" works very well for this scene because the singer is singing about how she is alone, and that she is not what she once was, in the lyrics, she says: "I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most. I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.", and just like Ying-ying St. Clair,
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Clair is looking over the edge of the water into her reflection, with the soft music playing of the girl singing, and at the moment where the song intensifies and grows louder, she falls in the water with the line "I sing myself a quiet lullaby, let you go and let the lonely in to take my heart again." playing sharply, her body falling into the water, feeling helpless and alone, frustrated and afraid, almost getting drowned by a swimming snake. At the point where Ying-ying St. Clair is taken out of the water by the fishing boat, the music grows soft and low again, and she goes to find her family's boat. In her attempt to find her family, they go towards a boat, Ying-ying St. Clair feeling hopeful to find them, they drove up to the boat and ask if they have lost a little girl, but then a girl on the boat says "That's not me!", and the people on the boat start laughing and look away from the fishing boat, not caring. At this moment, the song will grow loud and intense again, with the line from earlier "I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most. I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well." being sung, showing that Ying-ying felt truly lost and alone, thinking that no one cared about her, never to find herself before she fell into the water
Clair is looking over the edge of the water into her reflection, with the soft music playing of the girl singing, and at the moment where the song intensifies and grows louder, she falls in the water with the line "I sing myself a quiet lullaby, let you go and let the lonely in to take my heart again." playing sharply, her body falling into the water, feeling helpless and alone, frustrated and afraid, almost getting drowned by a swimming snake. At the point where Ying-ying St. Clair is taken out of the water by the fishing boat, the music grows soft and low again, and she goes to find her family's boat. In her attempt to find her family, they go towards a boat, Ying-ying St. Clair feeling hopeful to find them, they drove up to the boat and ask if they have lost a little girl, but then a girl on the boat says "That's not me!", and the people on the boat start laughing and look away from the fishing boat, not caring. At this moment, the song will grow loud and intense again, with the line from earlier "I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most. I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well." being sung, showing that Ying-ying felt truly lost and alone, thinking that no one cared about her, never to find herself before she fell into the water