The Dream Ship of "The Pianist on the Sea"

Put my phantoms and dreams

in a long and narrow shell

The boat canopy made of willow branches

still revolves around the summer The long cry of cicadas

Tighten the mast rope

The wind blows the sails of the morning mist

I set sail

――Gu Cheng

Boats and dreams are closely related in the movie "The Pianist on the Sea". The relationship between the characters in the movie is not complicated, and the narrative is divided into two lines: one is the story line, which completely tells the story of 1900's life; the other is the dream line, which is the dream of everyone on the ship.

Max introduces his good friends and a story to be told at the beginning, and then introduces the place where the story takes place: the Virginian at sea, and the dreams of the people on board.

Story line 1:

The original name of the movie "The Legend of 1900" is translated as "The Legend of 1900". Naturally, "The Pianist on the Sea" has a stronger literary and artistic atmosphere. From the movie name We can get some information, which is a legendary story about 1900. This man was born as an abandoned baby on the Virginian in 1900. His identity and nationality are unknown. He is a person who is not expected.

The legend of such a person is that he has amazing piano talent and never got off the boat. He was born as an abandoned baby, so the optimistic and cheerful Danny who picked him up became his father; he was orphaned again in 1900 at the age of eight, and music entered his heart; he always stayed at the bottom of the boat to watch the sea, and at the same time he owned a piano. .

God always opens a window to him when he closes a door. After Danny's death, he and the piano traveled in the ocean world.

Dream Line 1:

The Virginia has a glorious past, with its white building and green hull. When setting sail, people's expectations for a new life caused the four large smokestacks on the ship to drag their black braids across the sea.

Each time it carries two thousand people chasing dreams between Europe and the United States, this ship sails on the sea carrying the dreams of countless people. These dream chasers yearn for infinite possibilities. These people came and left in batches, and there was always one person who longed for the American dream the most and shouted America! Then the ship sailed into New York Harbor, and people waved their hats and cheered at the Statue of Liberty. Then people saw New York high-rise buildings, and then the whole group fell into shocked silence, as if they had arrived in heaven, and there seemed to be a bright future and a bright future waiting for them. But for 1900, this first ship is his cradle, his home, and his world. He refuses to go ashore. He has never felt that America is what he yearns for. He is the only person in the entire movie who does not pursue his dreams. Be yourself soberly.

Story line 2:

In 1900, when he was eight years old, he was not taken away by the police on the shore and entered an orphanage. Late one night after disappearing for 22 days, he played a tune without any teacher. Playing the natural sounds of the piano, it is a serenade without sadness, pure and joyful. After that, he started a life at sea and playing the piano.

When he was in his 20s, he met Max - a person who truly listened to and cared about his heart. Then he met the organist. In 1900, he heard the middle-aged man from the inland say that when he heard the sound of the sea, Scream and feel that life has infinite possibilities.

For the first time, he distanced himself from the sea and the ship, and learned about the look and feel of the sea from the eyes of others. 1900 was surprised. Although he lived with the ship and the sea every day, he suddenly realized The sound of the sea that was familiar to him was actually full of power in the mouth of the harmonium, bringing endless hope to others.

This is his first review of his own environment triggered by external information.

? Playing the piano is the peak moment of 1900's life in the eyes of outsiders. Everyone on the ship loves his piano sound. His reputation is so great that he attracts a challenge from the founder of jazz (so said in the movie) .

1900 himself plays piano with Jerry out of curiosity and appreciation. Jerry tries to use his piano skills to achieve many purposes: to defend his status, fame and fortune, and to show off his skills to others. Superb, humiliating 1900.

His first song still maintained the musical beauty and gave people enjoyment. In the second piece, he put his own emotions into it. Even 1900 was moved to tears and felt that Jerry played really well. In the third piece, Jerry was eager to win and poured a lot of anger and attempts to prove. The title of the piece is " "Twist off your fingers", which was intended to be a very personal insult. After he finished playing it, he was so excited that he almost burst into tears.

We thought that he poured out his emotions and moved himself, but within those emotions were his own insults and contempt for another person, and even wanted to kill the other person in the music. Music itself is a beautiful thing, but for those who truly love music, Jerry's behavior of tarnishing music is intolerable. 1900's own music is full of joy, and his original reproduction of Jerry's second song is even smoother than Jerry's. In the third song, he responded to the arrogant Jerry with "Infinite Motion" and completely defeated him.

The movie uses artistic techniques to interpret the wonderful scene of the piano fight. Jerry and 1900 wear white suits and stand out from the surrounding environment, forming a distinct visual effect.

Many of the shots of Jerry are from the back and the side. 1900 is a close-up shot of the front face, and the top and bottom perspectives are used to show 1900's superb piano skills and his selflessness. show. Use the camera to show Jerry and 1900's attitude towards the piano.

Jay used his wealth and reputation to challenge 1900, who was not in the music circle. Jerry can only win, and he also feels that he must win. 1900 just loves piano. He has no concept of winning or losing, and he doesn't care about it. What he cares about is the music itself. He felt that Jerry had insulted the music and was insulting himself. Jerry was defeated and got off the ship sadly. I felt sad in my heart. Jerry seemed to have a lot of things, but in fact he didn’t really own anything. In 1900, he had nothing, but because he had music, the Virginia, and he shared it with people. The soothing power that piano music brings to people, he seems to possess the whole world.

? A few years later, when he was recording records, the young Padovan was struck by the lightning of love when he was looking at the mirror on the cabin glass, and tenderness slowly flowed out of the piano. And sweet sadness.

This was the first time he truly fell in love with someone else, and for many years he spent the next few years digesting and chewing on these others to inspire his own curiosity and love. However, no matter how much he longed to get to know the sea again from land, how much he longed to fall in love with Padovan and live together, he did not get off the boat in the end, and was blown up together with the boat.

Dream Line 2:

Max went ashore and lived in poverty, reaching the point where he had to sell his trumpet. He boarded the ship at the age of 23, playing the Conn trumpet used by the great trumpeters, and dreamed of becoming a music master.

When he got off the ship at the age of 30, it was also the age when he no longer dreamed of music. When he finally sold the trumpet to the shop owner, he said that it was his life and that trumpet was a piece of music history. At that time, the store was filled with recycled musical instruments, so many dream corpses must have been there.

I want to talk about personal dreams and the dreams of the times in terms of time. In 1900, a new century came, and mankind felt that it was about to enter a new era of civilization. The First World War ended in 1918, and the next 10 years or so was the Jazz Age in the United States, which was consistent with the ups and downs of the music road in 1900. , the Second World War ended in 1945. After that, large boilers were used to burn coal to produce gas, and steam ships that required large chimneys to exhaust smoke were slowly replaced by oil tankers.

The Virginian was originally a passenger ship and a hospital ship during World War II. In the end, it had no use and needed to be blown up. Judging from the time, 1900 may be about 50 years old. Just when the dreams of those who were pursuing the American dream were shattered, jazz had already been replaced by sweet songs, and people rarely listened to real music seriously (revealed in the words of the shop owner in the movie).

The sea, ship, and piano in the movie do not have an actual meaning, they also have a symbolic meaning. The sea is an existence that provides the background for the process of human civilization. It is vast and eternal. It is sometimes rough and sometimes calm, which is consistent with the path of human civilization.

Boats are tools for people to pursue their dreams. They carry people from the wild past to the uncertain future. The piano is the life that people dream of. It seems limited, but it has infinite possibilities. Like piano music, people's lives can be dull or brilliant.

There is a great American symbolism work "Moby-Dick", which takes place on a boat on the sea. It depicts the struggle between humans and the natural beluga, the confrontation between civilization and barbarism, and in the end both perish together. That book not only eulogizes the spirit of human beings' unyielding struggle, but at the same time is full of awe of nature and has a certain skepticism towards civilization.

Although "The Pianist on the Sea" is not as grand and tragic as "Moby Dick", it still has a deeply sentimental tone.

What exactly does 1900 insist on? That is why he refused to go ashore?

He passed through many cities on the ship, and the scenes of the cities he saw were like dreams. Even the locals did not understand those dream-like moments as well as he did. He could see all kinds of people on the ship, using Musical notes depict the appearance of all living beings.

He told Max that people on the shore like to keep asking why and are busy with many tedious things, which he can't stand. Another thing is that the city he sees has no end, so many possibilities. Sex consumes a person.

Originally, he could create infinite possibilities on the piano, but when he entered an infinite environment, he felt that he would be swallowed up. He wants to keep to himself.

For this world, 1900 did not exist. He is a story. No one believes that there is such a person. Except for the broken and repaired master disk, nothing is left. He pursues nothing and does not pursue meaning, but he does his best to resist all kinds of temptations and loneliness and remain himself.

We are all pursuing the meaning of life. The existence of 1900 reminds us that if a person does not pursue meaning, does he exist? Does a person's existence have the right not to pursue meaning?

Law, the symbol of civilization in the new era, was worthless in the eyes of 1900. He despised regulations and restrictions. He had an aristocratic temperament and did not want to be restrained by the outside world. He consciously maintained the dignity of the old civilization. He doesn't care about fame and fortune, he is simple and humorous. When Danny was dying, he recited the name of the racehorse in 1900, a new noun that defeated the synonymous with past glory, "The lively cow triumphed bravely, pulled the trigger to defeat the divine strike and the good times..." We can feel that time is abandoned. The symbols of the times appeared one after another, and at the same time new things emerged one after another. Danny laughed and died. This first ship existed during the transitional period of great changes in the times, but was eventually abandoned by history, and 1900 actively chose to die with the old era.

The emotional tone of this film is extremely sad, but there are also humorous moments in the filming, Danny's explanation of the name, his mother and the orphanage, and the doctor with a long name, Danny was seriously injured. At the critical moment, the old man who called the doctor stammered and couldn't say his full name, and Jerry smiled, and 1900 saw the big gap between his teeth and a diamond.

1900 is a concrete representative of the old civilization, and he automatically chose a rejection.

What I like best is when there is a storm at sea, 1900 and Max are sitting by the piano, and the piano dances in the melody of the music with the shape of the sea.

At that time, I felt that the shape and rhythm of the sea were visible and audible. The tangible and audible things were abstracted into the melody of the piano, and were fully displayed in other forms. I even imagined a woman wearing a long and wide pleated skirt. The woman's skirt is spinning and dancing like the waves. This is the dream moment of this boat.