However, to say it is a story, perhaps it is better to say it is a wish, a desperate pursuit of purity.
I think there must be such a story in the world, because in our hearts, the emotion that life evokes may be vague, but it is permanent. There is a wish that requires erasing all impurities to express the purest response to existence. "Sea Pianist", in my eyes, is such an echo.
We in China call the feeling of life that everyone can have, "Life is like a dream, and this body is like a post" or something. In the West, it is called 1900-the name of the protagonist of the film. His world is on a cruise ship called Virginia. As a person, his affiliation is minimized. No birthday, no identity, no family, no lover, no social entanglements, no sexual impulses, no developmental troubles... He has nothing, but he happens to be a genius, the genius of the most illusory music. He lives, but he does not exist, he dies as if he never lived. He loved a girl, but he stopped staring, at most it was a kiss in the dark as light as a feather.
In 1900, he was alone, lightly, cleanly, innocently, sadly, suspended above the boundless sea.
What surprised me in the film is that 1900 is not a melancholy and perverted middle-aged man like the one in "Lolita" Smile like a casual game. Besides, he also speaks foul language, but in any case he is not a narcissist who plays with life. He is really clean.
However, when life is subtracted too much, it will lose the ability to restore the truth. I am always afraid of those things that are too pure. I am afraid that they will destroy the foundation of life and easily erase the impurities necessary for life. They put some romance in people's eyes, while stealing some simplicity.
Romance is full of coincidences. Romantic beauty is based on fragile balance. But in our deep and shallow life, there is no way to maintain this balance.
After World War II, the broken Virginia would be blasted, but 1900 escaped everyone's search and stayed on board. When his friends finally found him, he confided in his fear of land and cities, and explained his plan to go to Yellow Spring with Virginia.
I thought, maybe don't let him talk so much. Don't be too confident. If there is such a person as 1900, does anyone really know what he thought at the end of his life? The mystery of life, a person's perception of life, can really be explained clearly in terms of one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four, second, and third-party?
My assumption is that 1900 never came out to meet Conn. In the vast sea, just before the blast, he showed his always smiling face from the ship's window glass and waved goodbye to the world. Conn knew that he would not come out. He just imagined several things that 1900 might say to him. In this way, is it more in line with the illusory and light texture of the film? However, Conn is a stupid friend. This little fat man always agitated 1900 to get off the ship with great excitement, enumerating all the lures of land, fame, wealth, wife, and children. It was his vision that frightened 1900. I won’t say that.
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