the legend of 1900

Philosophically speaking, we all have no right to choose freely. This is very similar to Taoism's rule by doing nothing, but 1900 didn't waste his life. He played wonderful notes for others all his life, and never felt bored. He was doing what he was best at, and he kept doing it. This is not inaction, but persistence and tenacity. This may be the spirit of inaction that Taoism said. In today's society, technological innovation makes us feel that there are many possibilities, and we waste our time on gaining profits, speculating and taking advantage of others, which is just contrary to the spirit of inaction, even chaos.

This film also reminds me of Schopenhauer's philosophical point of view: people's will is too strong to make us constantly compete and be selfish, which makes life always full of suffering. The pain in the world is always more than happiness, happiness is short-lived, but pain is lasting. The exposition of happiness and pain is also fully confirmed in this film: 1900 seems to be detached, but there are also times of pain, because he suddenly feels happy (the joy of love), so he experienced the pain of losing love, which is short-lived, but the pain is long, and finally everything is calm, and then there is no pain or happiness. Schopenhauer also advocated that aesthetic experience is the ultimate happiness, which also confirmed the ultimate choice in 1900: piano, experiencing beauty in piano, experiencing sadness and happiness.