Thoughts after Watching The Legend of 1900

    Last weekend, I watched a movie entitled The Legend of 1900, which is also known as The Pianist on the sea. I watched two times, and I was deeply moved.

    The movie is mainly a story of a piano genious, Nineteen Hundred, who spent all his life on a ship, even passed away with the explosion of the ship. His future seems to be dim when he was young, for he was deserted on a ship, and was brought up by a humble ship worker. Even though, his 'father' died when he was young. However, he was given a talent of music. At the age of eight, he secretly played the piano, and even his first trying of it attracted a lot of people on the ship. When he grew up, he successfully beated a well-known jazz player in a piano duel. Because of his playing, the strings of the piano became so hot after the duel that they can fire a cigarette. Then some people asked him to play the piano on land, telling him that if he does so, he can gain fortune and fame. But, he never thought about coming to land after he had observed that there were no ends of streets in a city. After many years, the ship was almost forgotten by everyone, and it went so shabby that it should be destroyed imediately. Before he passed away with the ship, his closest friend, who used to play the trumpet with him, found him still on the ship. The friend tried to persuade him leave the ship. Then, Nineteen Hundred explained why he would never leave the ship and stay on land. He said that the number of keys of a piano was finite, and it had end so he could control the piano. But the society on land is complicated and infinite, and like streets, it has no end. He could not see the future and he might lose himself by infinite choices on land. With these ideas, he eventually did not leave the ship. The pianist ended his life with the piano, by constract, his friend finally gave up playing the trumpet.

    The first time I watched the movie, I thought it was a tragedy of the pianist, Nineteen Hundred, because he did not perform on land, and he died with few people knowing he was a genious. But, when I watched the movie a second time, I begun to consider whether it was a tragedy of a lot of people in the world. When living, we face a huge number of choices. We may lose ourselves in a state of choosing, then lose the future and finally doing nothing excellent. The pianist's closest friend finally gave up his trumpet with choices interfering him. So we need to control ourselves, we need to know our object and our future.  We need to control ourselves, hold our dreams, and we should not let them diappear by all kinds of choices in life. This may be the things that the movie want to tell us.