The Legend of 1900 is a fiction film base on Alessandro Baricco’s monologue - Novecento. Through intelligent use of dialogues, the director successfully shapes a music-isolated character - 1900 - who evokes a lot of different opinion argument from audiences. As a pianist, he dedicated to the music. He does not live for glamour, and he does not care for fame. In his lifelong journey, he finally finds a comforting way that he can live by, although others can not truly understand him. A message send by his character is that “Just keep moving forward and listening to your heart. Don't be afraid to be judged by others, because you have the right to make decisions for yourself.” Not only is 1900’s existential ambivalence, unrequited love, and contradictory
