My biggest question is why wouldn't he get off the ship!!!!
He can totally get off the ship. He's an idiot!!!! The movie, up to that point was great, then it doesn't make sense to me.
Music is great, though.
His whole world was that ship and the piano. The real world was just too big, too different for him to accept.
shareYes, exactly. He was born on the ship, and raised on it. His entire life was spent on the ship, on the ocean. It's all he ever knew.
The film is magical realism, and charmingly, heartbreakingly so. You may as well ask how he learned to play piano. It was like poetry, not intended to be taken literally, but for its overall meaning.
It's similar to the ending of "Cube" when Worth didn't want to exit into the real world..
I get it.
He gives a pretty cogent answer to that question in his last talk with his friend Max. Something like "I was born on this ship and the world passed by me, 2000 people at a time" which he grew up thinking of as normal. The world on Land just didn't have an end, went on and on, it was a ship too big for him; how do you choose, one street, one house, one woman? The immensity of it overwhelmed him.
This is one of my all time favorite movies. It's in a tie with anothar
Giuseppe Tornatore movie, Cinema Paradiso (alslo scored by Ennio Morricone).
Did the guy who posted bother watching the entire ending? Why do people asks such inane questions?? It is PERFECTLY EXPLAINED in the film.
shareAll that said, if I had been his friend, I WOULD have hit him on the head with something and dragged him off the ship. Let him cry over the horrific endlessness of the world, but at least be alive.
...Yeah yeah yeah it's magical realism and metaphysical reasons are as good as normal reasons. But I'd still have liked to see how he would have reacted waking up in his friend's room. With a big bruise on his head.
(I'm only half-serious - I understand why the movie had to finish that way. And I loved it. But fuck ship fixations too!)