"The Legend of 1900"

Reality or imagination

Both the screenwriter and the director have played a big trick here . Originally this was not a question, the English name "legend" itself contains the meaning of "legend" (what is the original Italian text?). But at the beginning of the film, the director let Mike appear first, and all his efforts were to make everyone believe that 1900 was real. Naturally, all the listeners were like us, skeptical of his words but intrigued by his story. That's why the musical instrument store owner finally stood up, stretched himself and said: "Okay, your story is very good, but our store is closing."

No one believed 1900 It's real - except maybe for Mike and the director. But does the director really believe that 1900 exists? In fact, his clumsy "trick" shows that he is the most skeptical one. True belief does not require trying to convince others. So here he actually exploits people's disbelief as a storytelling strategy. But I have to say that this strategy is not necessarily very clever, because it is a method that has been overused. In the end, the director also made Mike's attempt to save 1900 seem even more clumsy. The director made it too "realistic", so that the story lost the beauty of the legend.

I couldn't help but laugh to myself when I saw all the people getting dizzy from Mike's efforts. They all seemed to be convinced by Mike in the end, believing in the existence of such a eccentric genius. What surprised me even more was that the last Mike was still so young, and his reputation had already spread far and wide before that. Why did no one except Mike seem to know about him, and why did Mike need to spend so much effort to convince everyone?

No theme variations

It is difficult to find a suitable theme to analyze this film. 1900 has been on the ship since the beginning, and miraculously mastered such a difficult musical skill as playing the piano without any teacher. He never got off the boat at the beginning. We can't analyze the reason. We only saw the director's presentation to us. He had not seen land at this time, so he could not have had the last idea, or else he would not have been able to understand that he had had the idea of ??going to land and almost put it into practice. At this time we can only explain the fact that he never got off the boat as he never thought about getting off the boat, or he believed his black father’s words that there were big man-eating sharks on the shore. But it is obvious that, apart from the possibility that the latter may have an effect when he is ignorant, he may no longer be able to have such an impact when he becomes an adult - otherwise we can only explain him as an idiot. Therefore, his failure to leave the ship at this time can be said to be an accident, but there is no reason. Without a reason, there is no meaningful value. He later heard the words of the peasant poet (he could hear the singing of the sea and said those words, what is he other than a poet?), and he began to have a yearning for the shore, which was even more contrary to the spiritual proposition of the entire film. On the contrary, Chu'an seems more mysterious and meaningful. Later, he met the woman, love arose, and his urge to go ashore became even stronger. Finally, he was about to disembark. This made our hearts hang in the air, and we were excited and nervous. However, at this moment, something happened. In the classic scene, on the side of the ship, he threw his hat into the sea and then returned to the ship. We say that it was not until this moment that his thoughts and actions of not getting off the ship had real philosophical significance and highlighted their value. However, at this time his life is coming to an end and the film is coming to an end. So from the perspective of the entire film, how do we analyze the unified theme that runs through it?

Sincerity or hypocrisy

The most exciting part of the film may be the part between 1900 and the originator of jazz. Compete. But that part was too dramatic, and it seemed too contrived. Leaving aside the jazz musicians, 1900's seemingly sincere and devoted emotion also made me not very comfortable - but I have to admit that he felt me ??at that moment. People who can applaud their opponents are worthy of admiration.

The one-on-one competition was very intense, and the director used every conceivable method to enhance the entire atmosphere (but I have to say that these methods are not new, such as expressing them sideways through the audience's expressions), etc. When 1900 was forced to play "The Christmas Song", my heart was very excited. I thought the real excitement was about to appear. When 1900 repeated the jazz musician's performance, I still had expectations for the director, but when 1900 finally played that song Although it was a piece of music that excited the audience and the fans off the screen, I felt disappointed. The director still couldn't help but fall into the cliché. Does he think that playing fast means good music? Then everyone is better than playing fast! This reminds me of Jin Yong's martial arts world, where real masters often disdain to use weapons, or use the dullest, such as unedged black iron, or children's toys, such as wooden swords, or even tree branches. , wooden sticks, etc. as weapons. Their martial arts are often mild, such as Tai Chi, but because they are masters, the power they release is the most powerful. I originally thought that 1900 would be such a master. He played the simplest "Christmas Song" and played music that jazz musicians had played. A layman would be surprised and incomprehensible, but a master like the originator of jazz should be able to do it. You can hear the extraordinary in the ordinary. The same piece of music seemed to have gained a new life in 1900's hands, which made him sadly admit defeat. I think this is more interesting than asking 1900 to hold a cigarette and burn the steel wire.

Also, 1900 flinched at first. He seemed unable to understand why the jazz musicians wanted to compete with him. He applauded the jazz musicians "sincerely" and was moved to tears. But it seemed that he couldn't stand the jazz musician's repeated pressure, and finally revealed his true colors, and said to the jazz musician a little viciously: "Asshole, you asked for this!" This sentence surprised me, and in an instant he started to His sincerity was reduced to ashes in my brain, leaving only his expression at the moment. His sincerity at the beginning seemed to have a dark color at the moment. I don't like him like this, I'd rather he stay stupid all the time. He doesn't want to fight with others, he is who he is, a pure genius who lives aloof from the world and only loves music!

Love Interlude

Halfway through the movie, 1900 had not shown any interest in women, which made me a little anxious. I think love may be more legendary to a person who has never been off a ship. With his fame at that time, he should be surrounded by countless beautiful women. They should be fascinated by him, and he should be immersed in them, enjoying the sweetness of love. But no, the director seems to have ignored that and just had a fat trumpeter following him around. However, in the second half of the film, the director finally seemed to feel the need to pay attention to the private life of this legendary young man, so he arranged an adventure for him. It happened that the heroine was the peasant poet who had influenced him. daughter. She also happened to be looking for her father. Because her appearance contributed to the following things: first, 1900 completed the piece of music in his only record. From this point of view, she, or love, gave him inspiration; second, because she failed to accept his gift (oddly he heard everything she said, and she was further away from him at that time, and her voice was certainly not as loud as his). The only possible explanation was that he was downwind. But from Common sense would suggest that he was in the upper hand), so he destroyed the lone record (Mike repaired it and stuffed it in the piano, but maybe he should have kept it. It would be better to get up and keep a souvenir, isn't he afraid that 1900 will destroy it again?); thirdly, because of her (and of course because of her father), 1900 is ready to go ashore to live and listen to the sound of the sea. And indirectly contributed to his great idea. From this point of view, the appearance of the girl is appropriate, but their love always makes me feel dispensable, as if it is just to complete a ritual, or to promote some development of the storyline as mentioned above. Therefore, she only plays the role of a prop here, and love does not exist.

Why do you want to die?

1900 The final death is difficult to accept.

If there is any blame, I think it should be the director. Because 1900 is completely immortal. Isn't it? 1900 is afraid of going ashore just because he feels that the land is too far away and the city is so far away that there is no end in sight. This made him panic. He was afraid that he would fall into this infinity and would no longer be able to purely immerse himself in music. So to paraphrase a friend, "What he wants is purity." The world he is familiar with - and the world he feels most comfortable with - is a ship like that, with no more than 2,000 people at a time. He lives on the keys, and the keys are limited. From beginning to end, what he expresses is the concept of "space". He is not born to like boats, nor is he born to live on boats, but he is used to it and has no choice but to do so. And the "boat" he expressed did not emphasize that it must be "this boat", so we can completely understand that he can live happily in another boat. So why don't we give him a new boat, but must let him die with this old boat?

Such a question may embarrass the director and all the audience, which will make the story The ending takes a turn for the worse, and loses that layer of artificial romance.

Maybe my analysis is too cold and unartistic!

A romanticized ending imagination

Although I say this is a non-romanticized journey, it does not mean that I am so opposed to romanticization. In fact, whether it is "The Pianist on the Sea" or "The Baron in the Trees", I have regrets about their endings. I think if it were me, I would never handle it that way. In my imagination, 1900 should disappear mysteriously, which means that Mike should not find 1900, but when he is at his most desperate, he suddenly hears that in There is a talented pianist on a certain ship. His acting skills are impeccable, his music is beautiful, and - it is said that he never gets off the ship. From other people's descriptions, Mike realized that the person was probably 1900. At this moment, a sweet smile quietly bloomed on Mike's face, and then the music started playing. It was the stormy piano sound of 1900. During the sound of the piano, the camera shot Turning to the sea, there are beautiful ships on the sea. Behind the ships is the beautiful sunset, and the ships become beautiful silhouettes. The sound of the piano seemed to be coming from every boat, so numerous and rapid, as if there were multiple 1,900 people playing together. Then the subtitles rose...

Similarly, the Baron did not need to pull up the hot air balloon. He should suddenly climb far away along the tree one day, climbing farther and farther, and gradually, as everyone was surprised, he climbed It turned into a small dot in the field of vision, and finally even the small dot was no longer visible. Later, people never saw the baron who had never fallen off a tree in his life...

What is power? When a person commits a crime, the judge sentences him to death according to law. This is not called power, this is called justice. And when a person also committed a crime, the emperor could sentence him to death or not. So he was forgiven. This is called power.

——"Schindler's List"

Schindler was a German and a successful businessman. He used the war in Germany to lure Jews to invest and hire cheap The Jews worked and made a lot of money in this era full of killing and smoke. But when he rethought the meaning of human existence, not just personal wealth, he began to use the money earned during the war to buy out the Jews who were bound to suffer the fate of the concentration camps: Zhuosner, Wein, Rosner, Fei Forburg, Fisher, Schaffa, Woolenck, Horowitz... In the end, the surviving Jews used a gold tooth they saved, which was their only remaining wealth after the war, for Schindler. A ring was cast and a Hebrew verse from the Talmud was engraved on it: "Saving one life is equivalent to saving the world." Schindler choked and said: "I spent too much money... I could have... this car - ten lives... this breast - two lives..."

Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you're going to get.

——"Forrest Gump"

Forrest Gump's IQ is only a pitiful 75, but the world in Forrest Gump's head is a world that we did not expect.

He seems to represent more of an American spirit that deliberately dwarfs itself, clumsy but hardworking, and doing its best as long as it is alive. He traveled around history and became a part of history. He witnessed everything and became a part of everything. Running, running, running non-stop seems to have become the embodiment of Forrest Gump's transcendent spirit. He is like a feather flying out of his own sky.

Forrest Gump seemed to have no regrets in his youth, because he rarely looked back to estimate his losses. Perhaps his life can be summarized in two paragraphs, "Life lies in movement" and "Never." Stop trying! "

Someone once said to me, don't ask for any accessories. There should be nothing in your life that you can't throw away in thirty seconds.

——"The Wire"

Police and thieves are born to be enemies, and he is a policeman and he is a thief. He said: I can't let you be arrogant and domineering, I will eventually bury you. He said: I will wait until the end. The story of two men is full of warmth.

They are destined to start a chasing game in this sad city. They are destined to carry different missions, which makes them can only go their separate ways and then fight to the death.

In the movie, the wife of one of the robbers, Keith, was detained by the police and turned into a bait. When Keith saw his wife in the attic, his lover waved her hands in tears and asked him to leave quickly. At that moment, Keith Si's unforgettable expression is unforgettable.

Either rush to survive or rush to die! People always have to do something...

——"The Shawshank Redemption"

This is a story about prisoners. Because he was falsely accused of murdering his wife and his wife's lover, the young banker Andy was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court. Within the strict barriers, his desire for freedom was always honing his will. "Hope is the most beautiful possession of human beings. As long as you don't give up, hope will always be with you." Andy said these words to several friends seriously, and in exchange for Rui's silence, after a moment, Rui slowly said that hope is a dangerous thing and the source of mental distress. Then, Rui left the dinner table without looking up at Andy again, while Andy watched him leave quietly. The camera panned up to see the mesmerizing sky outside the iron window... Andy has never given up on using self-salvation to find his spiritual home. He seems to have always been guided by the belief in freedom, and within this insurmountable high wall, he has used He struggled hard with his own will, so he spent 19 years digging a tunnel that would have taken almost 600 years for ordinary people to dig. He crawled forward in the 500-foot manure pit, and the darkness of the devil and the light of God were like the same. Pressed on both ends of a thin layer of paper, Andy knew that the sea and sky he longed for were already within easy reach. He finally created a modern myth with his betrayal of the dark system and his ideal of pursuing freedom.

God will take away the best things around us to remind us that we have too much.

——"The Four Feathers"

The epic film "The Four Feathers" was originally a British literary masterpiece describing honor and fear. It has been adapted six times since 1920. On the screen. The story tells the story of a war between Britain and Sudan in 1898. Harry, an aristocratic officer who was about to get married, received an order to go to North Africa. He decided to retire with inexplicable fear the night before the expedition. This move set off huge waves in the British upper class where nationalism was rising. His fiancée, along with three friends, threw him four feathers, representing shame and contempt. The four feathers respectively symbolize the four values ??of "Freedom, Country, Honor, and Passion (Freedom, Country, Honor, and Passion)" that were abandoned by those who retreated from the battle. After wandering around, Harry decided to go to North Africa alone. He disguised himself as an Arab, experienced hardships in the desert battle, overcame his fear, and finally rescued his friends who had fallen into the enemy's hands one by one. In the story, the fate of a professional soldier is in sharp contrast with personal honor and disgrace. It makes people surprised to find that when the hero's noble coat is stripped off, what is exposed and exposed to the sun is just a secular heart.

The first rule of urban survival - when you are in danger, do not shout for help but shout for fire!

——"Seven Deadly Sins"

The inherent evil of human nature seems to have always been the mainstream of Western value systems and cultural concepts. In the movie, there are seven sins, seven punishments, seven rains, the story takes place on seven days, and even the ending is set by the enigmatic criminal at 7 pm on the seventh day. The ubiquitous "7" is like a spider web. It implies to the audience: it is a crime and punishment that carries destiny. In a selfish, greedy, and lust-filled metropolis, God once launched a flood to wash away human souls, but the criminal seemed to only want to use blood to summon the fateful judgment.

It is said that "Seven" in the West is a mysterious number in religion, which is most fully reflected in the Old Testament. God created Adam in seven days and took out Adam's seventh rib to create Eve. Satan's original body was a fire dragon with seven heads ("Revelation" Chapter 12, Section 3 reads: "There was a great red dragon with seven heads, also wearing a crown..."

Millions Don't hate your enemies, it will affect your judgment.

——"The Godfather"

Calm law and passionate desire seem to be twin brothers forever. Kerzen said that in such a society, the law only plays the role of "formal rules", and it is impossible for anyone to achieve his or her own goals through formal rules with certainty, but the Godfather seems to be able to do so. Hackers roaming freely can create a huge virus with just a simple piece of code. In their hands, rules are just a tool to restrain mortals, and only "self-interest" is their ultimate goal. Decide the trade-offs in the way you believe in to make up for the shortcomings of the law in a free society.

Vito Corleone's way to solve the problem is to build a family under the cover of religion. Of course, this. In the family, Vito Corleone has his own belief, that is, he always implements his doctrine quietly.

Morality seems to have become a fig leaf here, and means are the only ones. The road to fortune that determines everything...

——"Cinema Paradiso"

This is a warm movie, and every scene can take you over the mountains and ridges in your memory.

A mother is haggard because of her distant son. Her son, who left home many years ago, is now a famous director in Rome. He is here to join the old projectionist and his most important friend.

In his childhood, the villagers liked to watch movies at the "Paradise Cinema" in the town. Gradually, the young boy also developed a deep relationship with the old projectionist. Friendship. Later, the little boy saved the old projectionist from a fire caused by the film. The old projectionist could no longer see anything. Later, the boy grew up and he fell in love. He fell in love with a girl, but the girl and her family moved away. The boy accepted the old projectionist's advice and left home.

Thirty years later, the famous Salvatore came back to attend the old projectionist's funeral. The old projectionist left him a gift, which was the film of the kiss scene that was ordered to be cut out by the priest in the town. Every kiss scene, every kiss scene was like a revolving lantern in the spacious room

Choose life, choose work, choose lifelong career, choose family, choose xxxx big TV, choose washing machine, choose car, choose CD player, choose health, choose cholesterol and dental insurance, choose mortgage, choose to buy your first house, choose Your friend, choose to buy a three-piece suit on installment payment, watch boring TV stupidly on Sunday, eat snacks while watching, choose to linger, choose to wet the bed in a nursing home, and embarrass yourself in front of guys like you...

——"Trainspotting"

"The world we live in is like a garbage dump." If He Yong's high pitch is a kind of waking pain, then Mark's anger is more like a kind of being suppressed. Awakening from anesthesia.

This is a riot brewing in adolescence, a kind of rebellion called uprising, a rebellion that is unwilling to go home and only wants to wander alone under the cold street lights.

This movie seems to have a cry, either smash this evil society and become a complete bastard, or completely integrate into it and be a fool who goes with the crowd.

They are looking for their own life, using marijuana or banknotes to curse everything around them. You can't tell whether they are asleep or awake. "Potato" said: "Fashion is changing. , music is changing, psychedelics are changing, everything is changing."

Mark finally "awakened", and after betraying his friends, he laughed and jumped into the world he once despised. This may be just the beginning, or it may be the end, but the film has already told us: when Mark got into that dirty toilet, a new world was born.

There are always half the people in the world who do not understand the happiness of the other half.

——"Emma"

The film "Emma" adapted from Jane Austen's novel of the same name is a color film jointly produced by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1996.

The film takes Emma Woodhouse, a beautiful, smart and cheerful young woman, as the protagonist and serves as a threading figure. Through the love and marriage relationships between many men and women, the film explains to the audience the story of two people. A point of view:

First, marriage should be based on emotion. Second, a successful marriage must be a well-matched match.

But what is love? In a Swedish movie, there are two men talking about women. A said to B: Don't be stupid, they don't need love at all, all they need is attention, unique attention. Alexandre Dumas once said that in fact, there is no difference between happiness and pain in the world, there is only a comparison between one state and another! The dead do not deceive us.

This is how freedom comes, but so does slavery.

——"Brave Heart"

Facts have proved that the people's freedom is not obtained by the carefully compiled words of jurists or the kindness of monarchs. For the proletarian, what he loses in freedom is his chains, but what he gains is the whole world. "Braveheart" depicts the tense confrontation between oppression and freedom with a magnificent arm. Most of this confrontation cannot be transferred by personal will. It is more derived from the contradictions of social structure.

For an endeavor, the meaning of freedom may simply mean that his spine no longer has to be whipped, and he can do what he wants to do. William Wallace actually pursued more of a "natural human right", even if he shed his blood. This spirit is awesome. But the forerunners of the era can often only use their eyes to see through the changes that occurred hundreds of years later. Because they woke up too early, most of them were depressed and frustrated. Free will was promoted in the Middle Ages when dogmatism was prevalent, just as Galileo discovered that the earth was round. The significance of William Wallace's pursuit is that although it is doomed to fail, it touches a nerve after all.

Flies are not afraid, flies are not ashamed...Flies do not like politics either...".

――"The Fly"

This sci-fi film was once rated as one of the most disgusting films in history. The story tells the story of a scientist who successfully completed an experiment in which organic matter was decomposed and then synthesized off-site. . While the scientist was experimenting on himself, a fly was mixed into the container. The result was that the scientist had a fly head, and the fly had a human head. This shocking imagination combined with certain scientific theories. As a proof, it obviously caused panic in people's hearts. In another world, reorganizing one's self seems more like a profound exploration of the essence of life, even if its form is a bit unacceptable. Thoughts on life and a deep understanding of politics are more like a fable.

It is said that Sulla, the great slave owner who suppressed Spartacus, was a kind-hearted young man before getting involved in politics. The Greek biographer Plutarch said in his "Comparative Biographies of Greek Celebrities" that when he was young, Sulla was innocent and lively, with a smile on his face, very sympathetic, and would often shed tears because of his sympathy. However, later on, he changed his mind. But he became cruel and ruthless.

Although he condemned the excessive possession of power and honor on the grounds that power and honor would corrupt human nature, he did not try to limit his desire for power and honor, but pursued them desperately. Not only did he make himself cruel and ruthless, losing all conscience and humanity in his pursuit of power and honor, he also made his competitors cruel and ruthless, losing all conscience and humanity.

So Louis Bollor said that politics makes people evil.

When you were young, you thought there was an answer to everything, but when you get older, you may feel that there is no so-called answer in life.

――"Fallen Angel"

The killer will die tomorrow, and love is just a comfort for loneliness. "Fallen Angel" seems to just want to tell people one truth, there is no real person in this world without you. Persistence is necessary.

Life is like an arithmetic problem when we were in elementary school: There is a pool of N cubic meters, the water inlet pipe takes in A cubic meters of water every hour, and the water outlet pipe outputs B cubic meters of water every hour. When will the pool be full? Woolen cloth? There is no formula for calculating life. When you become an adult, you will understand that the inlet pipe is the life experience you get, and the outlet pipe is the youth you consume, and this pool will never be filled. It represents an impossibly perfect life, filled with emptiness, struggle and confusion. But we still have to face it after all!

We must learn to cherish every day of our lives. Because the beginning of every day will be the first day of the rest of our lives, unless we are about to die.

--"American Beauty"

Middle-class Lester Bonham has less than a year to live, although there are no signs yet.

He lives in that prosperous United States, in a warm and quiet suburb. He has a beautiful wife, Caroline, and a minor daughter, Jenny. He has everything he should have, but his family is not as happy as outsiders see. His work was unfulfilling, and he was tired of everything he did. Finally one day, when Lester met Jenny and Angela, who had just finished cheerleading for the middle school basketball game, he was immediately deeply attracted by Angela's beauty. Moved, the long-dead feeling in his heart seemed to be rekindled, and his life slowly began to change. In middle age, he fell into the love fantasy of an underage girl, and the situation gradually turned towards... It develops in a very interesting but unpredictable direction...

Maybe not everyone's life can become meaningful because of this or that fantasy, but at least it allows us to cherish the things in our lives. Another meaning of

Does loving someone need a reason? Probably not. Does loving someone require sacrifice? Yes! And there are no regrets! ——"City of Angels"

Seth is an angel above Los Angeles. He runs between life and death all day long, witnessing the joys and sorrows of the world. On this day, he came to a hospital, but unfortunately he arrived a step too late. The patient undergoing heart surgery had died on the operating table. Maggie Reese, the surgeon in charge, felt that this was her responsibility. She lost her confidence and her spirit collapsed. Seth decides to stay and help Maggie overcome her mental crisis. In the process, he fell in love with the beautiful Maggie. In order to truly contact Maggie, he took the risk to reveal himself.

The love of angels may be a little more pure than ever before in the human world, but Seth found that he could not truly enter the mortal world. Faced with his inseparable love for Maggie, in order to share the joy of life with Maggie, he resolutely decided to give up his identity as an angel, fall to the world, and become a mortal from now on. This may be a wish that requires a considerable price for him, but not everyone can be happy between the wish and the sacrifice. Regarding the love of angels, there is also a saying circulating on the Internet: Every girl was once an angel without tears. When she meets the boy she likes, she sheds tears and becomes a mortal. So boys must not let down girls, because girls gave up the entire heaven for you!