What is the profound significance of 1900 Legend?

Before analyzing the film, get to know the friends who haven't seen it.

The film 1900 Legend was directed by Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore and starred by famous actor Tim Roth. The film won the best director award in the 43rd Italian David Award with 1998. This film is defined as a romantic musical. Not only thought-provoking and impressive, but also brilliant in the soundtrack. The beautiful melody sets off the atmosphere of the film well. This film mainly tells the story of a worker on a boat who found an abandoned baby. Workers named him 1900, and there was a piano on board. 1900 Accompanied by the piano all day, he became a skilled piano master. At the last moment when the ship sank to the bottom of the sea, he still chose to stick to the ship and play the piano until the last moment. Even if his only friend advised him to leave Virginia, he wouldn't leave. This ship means everything to 1900. "I was born on a boat, grew up on a boat and ended my life on a boat."

1900 the legendary meaning: the refuge of life.

I think the last sentence of the movie "I was born on a boat, grew up on a boat, and ended my life on a boat." Is the theme of this movie. It is not difficult to see that the piano and Virginia are the heart of 1900.

Why is it called 1900?

If you know the history of Italy, you will know the "Italian immigration tide" at the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century, which requires a brief talk about the history of Italy. For Italians, the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century were turbulent times.

1880- 1920, Italian immigration to the United States reached its peak. In 40 years, more than 465,438+ten thousand Italians immigrated to the United States. This wave of immigration upsurge is not only far higher than that of other countries in the same period, but also unprecedented in American history. In the process of integrating into American society, Italian immigrants are also influenced by "xenophobia" in mainstream American society. It is not easy to struggle in a foreign country, and there are too many unknown bitterness and blood and tears.

Back in the movie:

After watching the movie, many people will have questions, why did 1900 stay on the ship that was about to be destroyed? This is the meaning of the whole movie. At the end of the movie, 1900 gives an explanation:

"What stopped me was not what I saw, but what I couldn't see. The city is too big to see the end. I can't even count the streets. Find a woman, build a house, buy a piece of land, open up a landscape, and then go to a dead end together. Too many choices and complicated judgments, aren't you afraid of mental breakdown? The land is too big, just like a big ship, a woman, a long route. I would rather give up my life than live in an endless world. "

This answer can't make fans buy it, and even think that 1900 is timid, but is this really the case? Let's keep watching movies,

Conversation between Yamashita 1900 in the third class and a peasant immigrant from Ferrulli in northern Italy (well, before reading this paragraph, let's learn about the history of Italy's 65438+ in the early 9th century).

"You don't look very happy about going to the United States" (Virgilia arrived in new york, and everyone on board dispersed in a hubbub, all happy to arrive in the United States)

"It's not because I went to America," said emigrant Feliuli after lighting a cigarette. "That's because I gave up everything. Until a few years ago, I only knew my field. For me, the whole world is on that square inch of land. I've never crossed the street. I'm afraid it's hard for you to understand this. "

And this is * * * band 1900. 1900 answered "I know very well that I know someone whose fate is similar to yours" (referring to 1900, Virginia is the world and all of 1900).

So one day, the man's field was deserted and his wife eloped ...? ""No, but he is also a person. " At this time 1900 has its own world, but the immigrants in the flying stream have lost everything.

The emigrant in the torrent said a very philosophical sentence at this moment, "Then one day I passed by an unknown city and came to a hill, and I saw the most beautiful things in my life. The sea, the sound of the sea is like a cry, a powerful cry, constantly shouting, you have no brain, life is infinite, so I suddenly decided to change my life. "

Immigrants all want to go to the United States to find freedom. Are they really free when they are exhausted in a materialistic world? Or freedom is in your own world, and your own world can become your true self and feel full and happy.

This scene reminds me of the old man who refused to move out of the mountains here. The world of the elderly is in the mountains between square inches, and the fields between square inches are everything to the elderly. This scene also fully echoes the history of 19 th century when northern Italy abandoned its fields and immigrated to the United States. After reading this paragraph, people are also thinking about life, why do we live, how should we live, whether we should pursue the materialistic world of living in a drunken dream or choose to protect our spiritual home in a short life.

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