Many years ago, many people did not understand why the 1900 in in "The Pianist at Sea" did not want to step off the Virginia ship.
As time stacks up, 4K repaired movies have landed on Chinese theaters, and more and more people are beginning to understand.
was released for 5 days. This high-scoring old film, released in 1998, earned more than 70 million yuan in box office. Although this number is not as good as "Spirited Away" which was re-screened a while ago (195 million in the first week, with a total box office of 486 million), it is enough to overwhelm the new Hollywood film "Charlie Girl" in the same period, and let the publisher realize profit.
This is good news.
has such a favorable market environment, and more classic films may come to Chinese theaters one after another, such as "This Killer Is Not So Cold", "Paradise Cinema", "Trumen's World" in the Douban Top250 list, etc. Wait, especially some films that failed to be shown on the big screen. What's the point of watching the movie that
has seen again?
If you find a different angle to watch the movie, it is really very interesting.
just talked about the story of "The Pianist on the Sea" and . There has always been a saying that is completely different from the "official summary"-in fact, the whole story is "made up" by the character of Max. 1900 is a character he imagined. . The magical thing about
is that it really makes sense to understand the movie in this way.
looked back at the first line of the film.
"Now I am still asking myself if leaving the sea city is the right choice." Max held his trumpet, thinking about a decision he made many years ago.
From this, he thought of a "friend" of his own, and sighed, regaining the "down-to-earth" feeling on the land, but he never heard that "natural" anymore.
Obviously, he felt a little regretful.
can infer that his life on land is not satisfactory.
He had to sell his trumpet due to financial problems and was forced to give up his musical dream.
This is not reconciled.
Life has been so difficult. A word from that good friend gave him some comfort.
"As long as you have a good story and someone who can talk to you, you will never be finished."
Fortunately, in his memories, there is really a good story. It's just that this story is a bit mysterious, no one wants to believe it.
Until he met the owner of the musical instrument store, he played the music composed by that friend.
The boss who had heard this wonderful piece felt that something was strange, and Max got the opportunity to tell the story.
If director Giuseppe Tonatore speaks from a third-person perspective, then 1900 must be “real”. But as told by the "contrastive role" of Max, Max's personal emotions have become an element that cannot be ignored.
Max only met him after he became an adult in 1900, so his childhood in 1900 became "second-hand information". According to Max,
learned the piano without a teacher in 1900. This is obviously unreasonable. 1900 must have a teacher, but Max didn't know the details, so he simply described 1900 as a musical prodigy.
The plot of his encounter with 1900 is obviously exaggerated. Everyone knows that the part of "Drifting Playing the Piano" in 1900 was a "movie". In reality, playing like this, the piano hit the wall long ago.
After fighting the piano and meeting the goddess, Max can also add some false elements in order to make the story better. In the
movie, no other witness said that he had seen 1900, so even if 1900 is his own hypothesis, it can become some kind of "fact".
is like the line in "She" , "The past is just a story we told ourselves."
Then why does he make up like that?
Maybe, he did not deliberately deceive.
He did meet 1900, but only he could see 1900. When talking to the owner of the musical instrument store at the beginning of
, Max said that this player does not exist at all. Although
is a bad word, it shows that he has told others about 1900 many times, but noneSome people believe it. In other words, no one has ever heard of such a history of the Virginian, and no one has heard of the jazz founder Dou Qindou losing to a mysterious pianist.
may be a coincidence, or there may be no 1900 at all.
Then the discs hidden in the musical instrument store can't be faked?
That is indeed true.
But the real author is Max himself.
So when he played the trumpet for the last time, he remembered this piece which is very important to "self".
So when he saw the piano, he couldn't help but touch it.
1900 is a kind of personality from his schizophrenia, a more perfect self, able to accomplish things that he could not accomplish.
He admitted that he had no chance to become a master, so 1900 was highly regarded on the ship, always the only focus of the orchestra.
1900 has a legend, Max's life experience is so sad.
The lives of the two can be corresponding.
1900 is a baby abandoned by his parents, which corresponds to the unhappy relationship between Max and his parents. He wanted to pursue his music dream, but his parents disagreed, so at the age of 24, he left his parents angrily and embarked on the Virginia with a trumpet.
was on the Virginia, and he enjoyed the music to the full, and had a relatively happy day.
But he still had many things that didn't go well, so the personality of 1900 began to appear. The most direct reason for
is that he has not been reused by the orchestra.
then "helped" him fulfill his wish in 1900 and became the leader of the orchestra. With the existence of 1900, a god-like friend, he felt the existence of happiness.
He started to compose music.
But the pianist in the orchestra plagiarized his creation.
He broke the disc in a rage, but then he thought it was his rare creation after all, so he hid it in the piano. After
, he still couldn't get the appreciation of the orchestra, so he got off the ship on August 21, 1933. There are many places in the
film where Max and 1900 are the same person.
For example, the "ensemble" of Max and 1900, Max's music, seems to be the music of 1900. What
1900 said in Max's mouth became "something else". When
1900 convinced Max, he said " and are infinite".
1900 refuses to disembark, which means that Max can never bring his dream to land.
What else can I do? I have to imagine a legendary story to comfort myself.
Max was defeated by the cruel reality, he could only seal his ideals on the broken ship Virginia.
Finally, he walked into one of the thousands of streets that 1900 said.
He bid farewell to 1900, bid farewell to dreams, helplessly and bravely towards his future life, with thousands of choices, but no choice.
history is not made up of "if". ——"Sea Pianist"
