Twenty-one years later, "The Pianist at Sea" is re-screened. As a bible for literary youth, young literary and artistic people should read it more than once. Some people like it, and they are infected by the fear, cowardice and loneliness of 1900. Some people hate it, think the film is contrived and sensational, and think the director is pretentious and slick.
In particular, some people who have experienced some things and are older, seem to be unable to be moved by 1900.
People with a "middle-aged feeling" like restrained and insensitive emotions, and become immune to intense, straightforward and sensational emotions.
This is understandable, but when you think about it carefully, if you don't believe it, it's not easy to be moved, and it's also quite sad. As you get older, you lose your innocence, and doubt is greater than belief.
"Middle-aged feeling" corresponds to "juvenile feeling". Teenagers and middle-aged people always seem to be unable to reconcile, and their tastes are difficult to match. Middle-aged laughing teenagers have never seen the world, so they are easy to be gullible and fooled. The young man laughs at middle age, his heart is dusty and greasy, and he looks at the world and the world with a layer of oil as a filter.
To put it bluntly, teenagers and middle-aged people are nothing more than ourselves at the opposite ends of time.
I really want to know what happened to the young man who was touched by "The Pianist at Sea" back then.
Talking about why 1900 didn't get off the ship, did you have other opinions.
The first time I watched "The Pianist at Sea" was in the university library. When I saw the moment when the Virginian was finally blown up, I sighed.
After watching it on the big screen this time, I couldn't help but wonder what would happen if 1900 got off the ship?
He should find the girl and start a relationship with the girl. Then with his music, he got a new identity, maybe a new name, he lived in New York, because of social fear, maybe he would recreate a house like the Virginian to house his piano, Play his music. On land and boats, the streets are ups and downs, the crowd is the waves, he will hear more stories from more people, the mediocre, vulgar and dirty, he is in the rich area, he is in the poor area, with limited keys, he can write infinite music.
Figured this out, perhaps, the world is also heaven.
He could also become the kind of guy who "invented jazz", who would become as arrogant as he was, contempt for the world, intimidating the media, revered and hated at the same time.
He might betray the girl, the reason for his disembarkation, he began to gain weight, surrounded by applause and beauties, relying on his stories on the sea, the music he wrote on the sea, and the concert tour, he can also become a Legend, just never wrote new works again.
Until his twilight years, he suddenly felt that the newly built cruise ship could sail farther, and he carried a box on the ship, exactly the same as when he disembarked.
People had seen him again and heard his music at the piano on the ship.
After that, he did not know where to end, leaving the world with a love-hate legend.
He may also form a band with good friends.
Piano, trumpet, music, they are angry, carnival, drugged, they cater to people's musical tastes, they have as many scandals as their works, TD Lemons are sold because of the name in 1900, and the piano he used is collected by the museum.
1900 finally died of a disease, or an accident, leaving only half a legend.
After so many years, people still visit the trumpeter to tell the story of the 1900s, because of his death, the story is widely spread, and he is forever remembered for his music and death.
He may also have no reason to play the piano after he disembarked. He drifted for half his life and just wanted to settle down. Together with the girl, he ran a fish stall and sold fresh seafood. Occasionally, guests who had seen him on the boat recognized him. He asked to take a photo with him, he politely agreed, put on a skilled smile, and did not forget to bring the signboard of the fish stall. Maybe there will be an editor of a newspaper who wants to write about him, sigh and regret that a genius has been withered by secular life, the fish stall will be lively for a while, people will race to see him, to mourn a genius, but not many people really are to listen to his music.
Only after the stall was closed and his wife and children fell asleep, would he polish the piano again and play a familiar and unfamiliar melody.
Do you regret it if you ask him?
He would say no, his music remained on the Virginian, in the folds of eternity, and now all he wanted was earthly happiness.
Who wants to be a lonely genius all his life?
Fuck genius.
After disembarking the above, which one will 1900 like?
Maybe each, maybe none of them.
The sense of fate is a circle, some people always want to escape, some people are willing to be imprisoned in it.
If it were us, maybe we would also take our steps back before we set foot on land. There is no other reason, just nostalgic for everything we are familiar with, nostalgic for the poetry of the floating city on the sea, unwilling to easily squander the musical talent gifted by fate, and hate the city noise, never want to figure out every street, need to navigate where to go. It is better to be in solitude forever, to be born at sea and to die at sea.
Or, I suddenly figured out, the Virginian is a ship on the sea, isn't the entire land a ship on the sea?
If it were you, would you choose to disembark? Which life will you choose?
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