About the film
The Legend of 1900 is a 1998 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. The film was nominated for a variety of awards worldwide, winning several for its soundtrack.
The movie is talking about a boy discovered in 1900 on an ocean liner who grows into a musical prodigy and never setting foot on land, and his life on the ocean liner.
My thoughts
The most unforgettable scene in the movie for me is that 1900 disembarked from VIRGINIAN to seek for his love. He walks slowly down the stairs to the land, yet he stops at the middle. Seems to be hesitating, he stands still there. His empty eyes look through the city and the land. Eventually, he walks back to his homeland - the cruise.
When 1900 stand alone on the stairs to land, in my view, he plucked up his courage to make himself that he took off his hat and threw it to the land. However, the hat soon flew back to the sea. The scene is so surprising that I think 1900 changed his mind because of it. In his mind, other people won't welcome him to the land (but it is a fact in this movie's world) that he even didn't have an "ordinary" name.
I saw a saying that really touching on the Internet: "1900 didn't have a ordinary name, yet he had an unordinary life than most of us." This is so true. In 1900's perspective, if he decided to start a new life on the land, he needed to face many thing that was not "certain". Also, he was afraid of being a "no name" guy. He didn't like the sense of uncertainty, because his life was already depended on others that he wanted to have something he could control by himself. Piano and the whole thing on the cruise is the only two things he totally know.
"I create infinity on 88 keyboards, yet those things on land are too infinite to see the end." The world is too heavy for him. He is a free soul ever. Leave with the cruise is maybe the best end for him. Max was really a true friend that he accompanies 1900 at the last time of his life.
How an unordinary man with an unordinary life!
By the way, the soundtracks is very worth listening!!!!!
--click here to listen one of my favorite--
