If you ask the wrong question, how can you get the right answer?
To understand why the pianist is guarding the broken ship, we must first ask: What kind of ship is it?
It was a cruise ship that traversed the Atlantic Ocean. Countless people from the old world in Europe ferryed to the new world—the United States through this ship.
Many, many people have been on this ship, rich people, poor people, Italians, and French, most of whom are frustrated and poor people. They left Europe with disappointment and heartbreak. Hope to scream: America!
There have been many celebrities on this ship. There are a group of close-up shots of the pianist’s room in the movie. Some of these shots scan the photos on the wall. In the photos, you can see Einstein and him playing together. Many European cultural celebrities Also in the same photo with him. These great European celebrities, sitting on this ship with the once glorious European civilization, left the European continent and rushed to the United States without looking back.
Did you notice? Pianists are very disgusted with jazz. The 20th century is the so-called jazz age. Jazz is the unique music invented by the Americans and represents the new world culture. Remember the black man who boarded the ship to challenge the sea pianist? This guy is so pretending that the front teeth are still separated. But this guy is a real person in history, but the real person is white, why is the movie changed to black? Because black culture is unique to the United States, Europe is a pure white civilization, but American civilization is mixed with black blood. Therefore, it is understandable that the director handled this character so unbearably. This black man in white clothes is a symbol of American civilization.
Moreover, at the beginning of the film, the director complained about jazz: if you don't know what you are playing, it is jazz. But every song in the hands of a sea pianist is played for a certain person and a certain emotion.
Therefore, this is an unusual ship. It is like a mirror, shining through the aging of the European civilization, and also shining through the rising of the New World in the United States.
The director is Italian. As a European at the end of the twentieth century, looking back one hundred years ago, you can only have this kind of nostalgia. The glory of Europe is a dream that will never go back. The pianist who will never get off the ship is the best interpretation of this nostalgia. He stays on the ship stubbornly, even though he knows that the New World has so many roads leading to so There are many directions, and each direction has a new hope, gestating a new future, but he doesn't like it.
This is the dignity of a European survivor.
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