everything the pianist told me

Tara 2022-04-22 07:01:34

"The sound of the sea, like a call, tells you that life is important. After hearing its sound, you can live."
When the pure sound of the piano sounded on the sea, I remembered a name, he called Nineteen zero.

A passenger ship travels between Europe and the United States, as well as between reality and dream. For many people, whether rich or poor, when the stalwart Statue of Liberty appears and sees it, they believe that everything in life has been settled. Of course, if living only for survival, maybe they are right.
In 1900, perhaps I should call him a born sea pianist. All of his origins from the sea, but also due to the sea, without any debt. When many people lock their eyes on the world of inflated desires, for the sake of fame and profit. He was just a hurried passer-by in their journey, maybe he was amazed, maybe moved, but in the end he was dispensable.

"The endless city has everything, except for the end, I can't see it. There is no end!"
For a moment, 1900 had the idea of ​​going ashore, but in the end he chose to return to the sea. I'm not sure what he was thinking when he turned around, I just read the blankness in his eyes. The bustling crowd, the shuttle cars and horses, the city has its own urban atmosphere. It's just that it carries too much and accumulates too much, so it is covered with a layer of depression. I don't know if this repression made him timid, or even suffocated.
1900's decision was because of love, although she gave up execution in the end. Love is the most beautiful thing in the world. When the moving piano sounds, outside the window, the beautiful girl's charming curly hair flutters in the wind, and love inevitably sprouts. I was thinking that what 1900 feared might be that the hustle and bustle and glitz of the city would change everything, even the original innocence.
So he buried everything in the sea. And the city has no end!

"There are too many infinity in the world, and I just want to put the limit on the piano." The
slender fingertips slid over the keys, and the piano galloped on the smooth wooden floor. So, the whole world is spinning...
If anyone was born to live for the piano, well, he is! His name is 1900! He will become a famous teacher in the history of piano; he will have endless wealth and fame; countless people will be crazy and obsessed with him... as long as he wishes! But after all, he was 1900. He said, "My music can only follow me."

To truly purify the idea, I don't know how many people in today's society still insist on this. Worldly needs are often stronger than ideal beliefs, perhaps stemming from a thirst for material desires.
Human desires are infinite and hard to restrain. But when we find a sustenance, everything has a final limit. So, 1900 found the piano floating in the sea, and found his own limitations.

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  • Amelia 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    Looking back 15 years later, three stars have become four stars. It's not that people are easily sentimental when they get old, and it's not that the big screen is really enjoyable, but this time, I really feel a search for "ultimate freedom". 1900 was not tired of the mundane, his upbringing was so special that it shaped a unique way of thinking. He can only live in the "limited to create the infinite", and can not follow all the unknown life, which makes him afraid. Even if he doesn't get off the ship all his life and lives in a prison-like cabin, his mind is infinite, and this is freedom. Instead, the crew will rush to land desperately, seeking physical freedom among prostitutes and alcohol, but is it really free at heart?

  • Dorothy 2022-03-27 09:01:10

    This is the first time to watch this 125-minute version. The editing is not the same as the impression. It uses the last storyline of Max to find 1900 on the abandoned ship to connect the whole memory, and present several parts of 1900's life separately. It feels different. It's not as narratively obscure as the long version of the 1900's story, but it's still a complete story. At the end of the credits, I was waiting for the song Lost boy calling, but in this theatrical version, this song is not available. I really hope that there will be more such classic old movies in China in the future, which are much more reliable than those messy new movies!

The Legend of 1900 quotes

  • 1900: You're the one who invented jazz, right?

    Jelly Roll Morton: That's what they say. And you're the one who can't play, unless you have the ocean under your ass,

    1900: That's what they say.

  • 1900: It's like a big scream, telling you that life is immense. Once you've finally heard it, then you really know what you have to do to go on living. I can't stay here forever. The ocean would never tell me a thing. But if I get off, live on land for a couple of years, then I'll be normal, just like the others. And then maybe one day, I'll make it to the coast, look up, see the ocean, and hear it's scream.