:: Philosophical Reflections on "The Pianist on the Sea"::

Cassandre 2021-12-31 08:02:37

[1] "I" and the world's


people can only see their own outside the body.

"I am alone.
"I" is in the world, and "I" is outside the world.
"I" is in the world, so I can feel the world.
"I" is outside the world, so I can observe the world.

1900 is a person.
1900 is in the world, and 1900 is outside the world.
He could not hear the sound of the sea, because the sea had internalized his "me".
He can perceive everything around him because his "life" is outside of everything around him.

Distance and gap generate awareness.
"I" has a relationship with the world.
And "me" and "me" are inseparable.

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[2] existence and non-existence of


people as life exists in the world in 1900.
As a social person, 1900 still exists in the world.

But he has no nationality, he has no identity.
The world does not recognize his existence.

Sometimes, presentation is existence.
Unless it is shown to the world, the world will not know its existence.

It is what Hegel called a "beautiful soul".
It is superhuman. It "exists" in the world but does not show it to the world.
The world does not recognize its "existence".
Death is the final destiny of the "beautiful soul".

For the world, for the future
it does not "exist."



[3] finite and infinite


limited the keys, but they can carry unlimited inspiration.
The hull is limited, but it can show an infinite world.

The words are endless and the meaning is endless.

Using a finite carrier to create infinite images is what a wise man can do.
And dividing an infinite perfect finite in the infinite world is
the greatest creation of "God".





[4] freedom of choice and


can choose to show that you are free.
However, your freedom is limited-your freedom is only within the scope of options.

TO BE OR NOT TO BE?
1900 faced two choices.

On the boat, he can control the trajectory of his life.
On the shore, he also faces several "sub-choices", any one of which may change his destiny.

He is afraid of losing freedom-the freedom to control his way of life.
Therefore, he chose to stay on board.

The only thing a man cannot leave is himself.
When the ship has become himself.
He can't leave...





[5] Modern and post-modern

1900-[a new century].
Virginia-[1900's World]-[A New Century World].

The fate of 1900 is the fate of the 20th century.
1900 and Virginia died together, and
the 20th century society represented by industrial civilization is dead.

The 20th century is dead-this is exactly the postmodernist view.
While people were still praising science and rationality and enjoying the convenience that scientific rationality brought us, the
two world wars blasted individual humans to pieces with weapons derived from industrial civilization.

What did 1900 see on the spiral staircase? Why is he afraid?
He is not afraid of what he said to see (highly developed industrial civilization),
but the end of the invisible (industrial civilization)!

So, he came back.
I would rather live a life where you can see the end.

The fate of 1900 may be our fate.



[6] I also want to say:



"The Pianist at Sea" is a typical postmodern and deconstructive film, and its tendency to oppose the material and spiritual achievements (values) of industrial civilization is very obvious.

The way he grew up in 1900 was absolutely post-modern: he knew the world through the virtual media environment created by newspapers and people around him, and his world was a mixture of real and unreal. In the cultural desert of post-modern society, what is lacking is not a concept, but a concept with too much meaning, which makes its original meaning lose its meaning, just like "mother" may be a horse...

and REGULATION (such as Mass production represented by Ford production line) and industrial civilization represented by MONEY (money worship values), etc., were almost FUCKed by 1900...






MAX did not knock 1900 stunned and then disembarked, he let 1900 complete himself The choice to complete the meaning of your life. This kind of plot design is postmodern Sartre-like.

Foucault believes that any kind of discourse is an attempt by users to exert the power to influence their thinking. When MAX left, there was no language.

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  • Zita 2022-03-28 09:01:05

    A classic, a legend. This is called unforgettable, and there must be an echo.

  • Marjolaine 2022-03-21 09:02:15

    I like it very much. The reason why I didn't leave until the end should be because there are too many memories on the ship that I can't forget. From the moment he was picked up, he was destined to belong to the sea.

The Legend of 1900 quotes

  • 1900: It wasn't what I saw that stopped me Max... it was what I didn't see.

  • 1900: Take piano: keys begin, keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you any different. They are not infinite. You're infinite... And on those keys, the music that you can make... is infinite. I like that. That I can live by...