Originally, I just wanted to revisit it, but I was surprised to find that I was young and ignorant and didn't understand it. The VCD is sparse, the big screen can see clearly, the fat man blowing the horn loses focus many times, and his pupils flicker.
And his narration is full of details, especially how he could see the girl from the porthole in 1900, and repeated "he doesn't exist" and "only I know you exist" in the lines. The listeners pointed out that he made up the story, praised The story, that is to say, 1900 exists only in the trumpeter's imagination, who he wants to be.
Every individual is faced with some conflict between the life he wants to live and the life he can actually live, which is especially prominent in the artist. And most people who devote themselves to art, creation, and entrepreneurship are often only slightly more talented than mediocrity, but their love is much more than that. This excess love cannot make up for talent, but it always causes pain.
1900 was the last year of the Victorian era, the Queen died in January 1901, the Victorian era in a broad sense to 1914. Around the same period, the United States was in the Gilded Age. The luxury cruise ships that crossed the ocean to and from the United States and Europe were a symbol of the times. The appearance was very similar to the Titanic. The contrast between the upper class and the boiler room also implied class.
The trumpeter has a disability in his eye, but he was blessed by the prosperous world and served as an errand on a cruise ship, giving him the idea of self-achievement. The first time the trumpeter and 1900 met, they sat together after vomiting, and sang the piano in the wind and waves, symbolizing physical discomfort and psychological ecstasy at the same time.
When the pianist starts to play solo, the rest of the players stop, implying that these are two jobs of the same person. That record is also the work of the trumpeter himself, so that it can still be played smoothly after many years.
The trumpeter disembarked abruptly in 1933, the last year of the Great Crisis, when the Nazis came to power, implying that the Virginia was out of business. It had been in business for at least 33 years, and it was changed to a hospital ship after World War II. The trumpeter's life was disillusioned, and because of this, he fantasized about a man who never got off the boat.
The "reunion" with 1900 was at least 1945. At the end of World War II, the trumpeter has become a bald uncle. What he has experienced in the past ten years can be imagined. For the work of the hands, only in prosperous times need artists to embellish, but in troubled times, it is unnecessary people. But he still carried a trumpet, and he couldn't take the piano with him. It was his last sustenance, a connection with the past.
When the trumpeter finally sold the trumpet, it showed that he was extremely distressed. At the same time, he learned the news of the ship breaking, which was a double blow. He boarded the ship to say goodbye, or he thought about breaking himself.
The old man from the musical instrument store knew that this story was made up, but he still returned the trumpet to the trumpeter, as the old man identified the skill of the musical instrument, he was also a music lover, and understood the meaning of the musical instrument to the musician. The sign of maturity is to recognize all kinds of lies with ulterior motives, and the real maturity is to recognize the lies with hard intentions, and see through them but not tell them.
"The Thirteenth of the South China Sea" borrowed from the storyteller's words: This is just a down-and-out screenwriter telling the story of another down-and-out screenwriter, and this film is also a sensitive artist filming another sensitive artist.
It is also an elegy of Western civilization, mournful but not sad, and its artistic conception is the same as that of Du Fu's "Festival in the Year of Li Gui in the South of the Yangtze River": it is common to find it in the house of King Qi, and Cui Jiutang heard it several times before. that was nice scenery at Jiang Nan, met you again in autumn. The scenery is still there, and the Tang Dynasty will never go back...
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