Tonight a friend lent us a movie called The Legend of 1900.  In this film Danny, part of the crew who worked the boiler on a ship called the Virginian, found an abandoned child on board.  He raised the child and called him Nineteen Hundred, in honor of the year he was found.  Nineteen Hundred was eight when he discovered his amazing talent to play the piano.  Without music or lessons he could play any tune or create music based on a feeling or emotion.  Nineteen Hundred was born, raised, and played the piano for first class passengers, but since he had never set even his tiniest toe onto dry land, his best friend Max pleads with him to get off the ship. I would not say this movie left me thrilled  and it was not anything to ‘write home about’, but I did find it interesting and entertaining.  I was very disappointed with the consistent use of foul language (such as misusing the Lord’s name and the as bad as the “f” word) throughout the movie.  If you find this summary amusing and wish to watch this film by all means do, but the rest of my blog will reveal the conclusion of the film and my own thoughts of this movie, so if you wish to watch it unspoiled I would advise you to stop reading NOW!I found this film interesting but a bit depressing in a way as well.  Max, friend of Nineteen Hundred, is constantly trying to persuade him to get off the Virginian. Max is a trumpet player for first class passengers’ entertainment. Since Nineteen Hundred’s youth, Danny, in fear that the government might try to take Nineteen Hundred away from him because of his lack of paper work, Danny told his ‘son’ never get off board; this plus the fear of leaving the ship, his home, keeps Nineteen Hundred from satisfying Max’s requests.   Once,  Nineteen Hundred actually decides to leave the ship, but because of reasons that are unknown until the end of the film he stops half way down the gangplank and turns back.  Max, the narrator, eventually leaves the ship to seek a new job.  At the end of the movie Max comes back to see what happened to the Virginian and his friend.  He finds that the rusty boat was a day away from being blown up with dynamite because of it’s sad state.  Max is sure that his friend is still on board and he searches for him.  Just before it is time to send the boat out into the sea to be disintegrated to smithereens, Nineteen Hundred comes out of hiding.  Max pleads for Nineteen Hundred to come with him off the ship, but Nineteen Hundred tells him that a piano has a beginning and an end, 88 keys, and with it you can make an infinity of music, but when his was on the gangplank he saw a world that had no beginning and no end unlike his home on the boat that has a bow and a stern.  Nineteen Hundred could not handle a “infinity” world where you pick just one home, one scenery, one woman.  He said that a life like that is meaningless.  So he refused to leave the boat saying that a birth, life, and death on the Virginian is better than living in a “infinity” world.   Nineteen Hundred chose death, so Max was forced to leave him.Now as a Believer in Jesus,  I observed that Nineteen Hundred’s choice was wrong.  It is true our lives our full of an infinity of choices that we go about making each day.  What is different between myself and Nineteen Hundred is that I am not afraid to go into the world, because my choices are guided by HIM who gives my life a purpose and reason for my existence.  So in a way this movie did make me think and was entertaining, but if you do not enjoy sad movies that have complicated themes, then I do not recommend this movie to you 🙂 .