AAA Movie Review: The Legend of 1900 (1998), A Lonely But Free Soul

"The Legend of 1990" is a literary masterpiece filmbed by the famous Italian director Giuseppe Tonatore in 1998. Although it has been for 20 years, it still shows its vitality across the age. This film is full of the romantic Latin color, and there is no fierce and exciting scenes of gun battles. Also, there are no handsome men and women. It only tells the legend of an ordinary person, but unexpectedly succeed in creating an American-style civilian hero 1900, which has won numerous praises and praises. "The Legend of 1990" tells the story of a abandoned baby 1900 abandoned on the "Virginia" first class piano, which grew up on a steamship as a sea-based genius pianist and eventually slammed the ship on the seafloor. The tragedy of an artist who seems to be fiction is full of human survival metaphors, leaving us with endless thinking about human life and existence. Director Tonatore is good at revealing humanity through the attention of small people in the material society. In the movie "The Legend of 1990", he created a legend of civilian style. This legendary life is conveyed through the romantic and beautiful space of the film.

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At the same time, music occupies a very important part of the film. The music of composer Ennio Morricone became an important part of the film. He used many different rhythms and styles in his films. Morricone combines Jazz, Ragtime and classical music to create a unique and fresh listening experience. Most of the music in the film is optimistic and brisk. Although there are many melancholy and embarrassing moments, it is still just right to integrate with the big environment. The film is based on the use of the respective characteristics of music and film language, strengthens the musical expression and style, successfully shapes the image of the 1900 sea pianist, and leaves deep impression on the audience. In "The Legend of 1990", director Tonatore uses soft shooting and warm emotions to arouse the long-lasting sorrow of the protagonist. These inadvertently look for your most sensitive and emotional nerves, and gently touch, and let you forever remember it.

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Tonatore once liked to use closed space as a narrative carrier. The different worlds built on the "The Legend of 1990" and the love fragments were processed through the nostalgic image, which made the film reveal a unique and chic and ingenious. The master's soundtrack has also succeeded in presenting a romantic and sentimental mood under the constant musical sounds, working together to create this immortal classic story. Obviously, Tonatore is a director who is good at storytelling. He uses his own narrative skills to let the audience blend into the dream when intertwined with reality. The director's massive recollection of the space-time scenes in the film clearly became a very important technical backtracking in the narrative of the whole story. These large backtracking situations constitute another narrative level and become the narrative body of the story. In this unique way of storytelling, Tonatore has enhanced the dramatic tension of the 1900 legendary life and better highlighted the hidden theme.

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It is very reasonable that the film itself promotes the story through the fate of the characters on the artistic level. This film not only wants to tell an experience, but also hopes to finally reach the hearts of the people. Therefore, the whole story is full of people's interpretation and reflection on the self, so that the viewers can re-examine the long-lived true soul through this pianist who devoted his life to music. Throughout the film, “The Legend of 1990” shapes the difference between the soul habitat and the real material world by shaping 1900. Thus it shapes this ordinary pianist who uses his life to defend the inner ocean. The director successfully used the lens language to reflect his profound and pure views, grasping the lofty, refined, non-utilitarian, and noble pleasures that people rarely pay attention to and realize, and evokes through the unique structure and expression of film art. People think about music and rethink the situation of their own lives and their destinations. It can be said that this film is worthy of a classic work that perfectly combines music and story cores.

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Movie URL: https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/10376-la-leggenda-del-pianista-sull-oceano?language=en-US
Critic: AAA