The Pianist at Sea is a moving film directed by Italian director Giuseppe Tornareto and starring Tim Ross, Bill Nunn and others. The film was released in Italy on October 28, 1998, and won many awards such as the European Film Awards and the Italian Golden Globe Award, the Italian David Awards, and was given a high score of 9.3 on Douban.
This movie, like The Shawshank Redemption, is an absolutely classic good movie. It is mainly about an abandoned baby "1900" who grew up on a wheelbed, who grew up on a boat and made a living by playing a beautiful piano. He was sought after for his great achievements in the piano, but he had no interest in money and only enjoyed the pleasure of playing the piano on the boat. Until one day a young girl appeared in his world, causing him to fall in love and almost walk into the city. This movie does not have a sadistic plot of the hero and heroine, but it makes people cry and touch the softest part of everyone's heart.
"The Pianist at Sea" is not a blood-boiling inspirational film, director Giuseppe Tornaretto uses his unique lens to show the protagonist's 1900 inner retreat and fear, anxiety and confusion, loneliness and longing. Each of us sees our own shadow in "1900", and "1900" is exactly every one of us. In my opinion, this is a film in which director Giuseppe Tornato is wrapped in the cloak of a musical, and the core does tell the story of an "existential" philosophy.
Existentialist philosophy is primarily human-centered and respectful of human individuality and freedom. It holds that when people live, it is meaning. The main exponents of existential philosophy: Heidegger and Sartre.
Existentialist philosophy mainly explores the meaning of human existence around three aspects: loneliness and freedom, anxiety and the value of existence. In the movie "The Pianist of the Sea", Tim Ross used his superb acting skills to show us the inner world of 1900, which resonated with the audience's soul.
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In The Pianist of the Sea, 1900 is a lonely man, and it can even be said that he enjoys solitude in freedom. In the beginning, he had no close friends on board and never left the "Virginia" ship.
In The Pianist at Sea, 1900 is an unfettered man. He has no citizenship, no exact name, no need to work to earn money to support himself, and he does not need to live in the rules of the world. He didn't need to learn to play beautiful piano melodies, he didn't need to participate in complicated interpersonal relationships for money, and his heart was like the "Virginia" ship, incomparably free. He was born on a ship, and he died on board. He loves freedom as a ship loves the sea.
"You are the prodigal son, don't anchor."
I think this is probably the voice of every person who loves freedom.
Whether a person can be free is mainly reflected in whether he can control his own destiny. The existentialist philosopher Sartre once said: "Man is forced to be free, and once we are thrown into this world, we are responsible for everything we do, we cannot rely on the goodness of human beings, and there is no humanity to rely on." ”
A lot of people like 1900 because he enjoys pure freedom. At the end of the stormy night, the big ship drifts on the rough sea, and he plays the music belonging to nature to the rhythm of the storm. The free, intense rhythm accompanied by the sound of wind and rain on the sea has made countless audiences addicted in a visual and auditory feast.
In the 1900, which is in the song of the times, we see the fearless spirit of mankind at the moment of the storm, and we see the free soul that still dances freely under the oppression of fate, and the 1900 of that moment represents the indomitable, optimistic and fearless courageous spirit of our human beings from ancient times to the present.
Loving freedom is destined to come at a cost. When you fall in love with the vastness of the sea, you are doomed to not be able to enjoy the frenzy of the sea storm; when you love the stability of the land, you will lose the sparkling sea; when you enjoy more freedom, you must bear the loneliness that comes with it. And 1900, even under the temptation of love, still insisted on the last pure land of his heart.
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In The Pianist at Sea, the anxiety and confusion of 1900 is vividly displayed at the moment when he is about to disembark.
Seeing the neat rows of tall buildings, the roads, 1900 hesitated, and was afraid. As he later said:
Take a piano, for example, starting with the keys and ending again. You know that the piano only has 88 keys, and it is not bad to do anything. They are not infinite. You are infinite. The music made on the piano is limitless.
I like this, I live habitually.
The city is so big that there is no end in sight.
For the 1900s, who grew up on a ship and spent 27 years at sea, setting foot on land was simply a different kind of life. We will never forget the 1900 that played in the waves and waves, and we dare not imagine what 1900 would face if he really left the sea.
It is said that if he left the sea in 1900, he would settle on land and marry and have children with his beloved girl. However, when he came to land, he was like a fairy who had fallen into the human world, and he was doomed to lose his spirituality. This reminds me of the little mermaid in Andersen's Fairy Tales, where she cut off her tail for the sake of her beloved prince and transformed into an ordinary beautiful girl. The Little Mermaid thought that if she became a human being like a prince, she would get the love of the prince and his bald head, but unfortunately she watched her lover marry her.
In the film, the director borrows 1900 to stand at the bow of the ship for a few minutes and tells us a truth: In today's postmodernism, with the rapid improvement of industrialization and urbanization, people are increasingly caught up in the group mentality, at the cost of losing their own nature, fanatically chasing worldly money and fame.
Such a world, for 1900, who was accustomed to enjoying loneliness and freedom, was absolutely impossible to integrate. His confusion and loneliness represent the anxiety, confusion and discomfort of a group of pastoralists who are anxious, confused and uncomfortable with the invasion of their homeland in the face of the rapid and rapid urbanization process.
Why, I think you people on land have wasted a lot of time wondering why. When winter comes, they eagerly look forward to summer; when summer comes, they worry that winter is coming. So you are never tired of traveling, always looking for a place with four seasons like summer, and I don't think you can find such a place.
We are destined to say goodbye to the past in our progression, to lose the pursuit of spiritual ideals in the pursuit of the material world by the madman. If this is the doomed ending, I hope to keep my inner Shangri-La forever.
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Budiman once said: "The most essential value of life lies in the independence of man." ”
What is human independence? I think in addition to the ability to think and live independently, the most important thing is to accept your own differentiation.
1900 was an alienated man. He had no identity or nationality, no parents or relatives, and he grew up on a boat, but he didn't live like everyone else by fishing, hunting, and burning charcoal. He is enjoying the accompaniment of everyone while they are dancing. He was born for loneliness, for music, and for himself.
Tagore once said: "Loneliness is the carnival of a group of people, and carnival is the loneliness of one person." This phrase is aptly used to describe 1900. He always liked to play in the crowd and get applause from everyone; but he didn't participate in other activities, and he wasn't keen on exchanging his musical talents for money. He simply enjoyed the of solitude.
Looking at people today, generation after generation is living repressed by the concept of "all things are under the quality of reading high" taught by their parents and teachers. The children are reading at night with lights on, constantly struggling to survive exams and grades. They lived to everyone's expectations, but forgot their original appearance.
A world without differentiation is terrible, and people without a sense of self-existence worth are pathetic. What moved people in 1900 was that he infinitely magnified his musical talent in a limited space, and he only lived in his own spiritual world when people were fanatically pursuing money and fame.
Each of us is 1900 and has a spiritual world of our own like his own. But we are all different from the 1900s, losing our unique value in being socially assimilated.
"The Pianist at Sea" is the director's way through an alienated marginal figure 1900 to remind us not to forget why we started because we went too far. Each of us who has been touched by 1900 reminds us of his unique presence – you are you, a different firework.