Go off the ship—Yes or No? It seems a simple story. All the director want to tell is about a gifted, pure-minded and brilliant pianist, Nineteen Hundred, who has never gone off a ship throughout his life, even when met the girl he loves in the first sight; even his friend, Max, keeps tempting him; even he has to die with the old ship. The world is out there, but he never take an eye on it.. Why? He says the land people waste a lot of time wondering why. People are never tired of chasing someplace faraway where it’s always the summer. Indeed, people from different classes take the ship sailing to America, wishing to get everything they’ve been dreaming of. To some extent, it’s only about America, but everything they leave behind. In the film, a nameless immigrant tells his experience. Until a few years ago, he knew only about his field, and the world for him started and ended there in that little piece of land. One fine day his field goes dry. Finally he suddenly realizes the life is immense, so he decided to change his life and start fresh. Change life. Start fresh. At that time Nineteen Hundred feels a fierce fight between two philosophies in his mind. Why don’t you get out of you small world and go out to see the city, flower, and beautiful women? Since life is immense, why do you limit yourself to that little piece of land? Somehow, he suddenly decides to go off the ship. Maybe it’s because his withered love. But I believe it’s more about wanting to go outside and see something, something he has never seen. He dose wish to feel the immenseness of life. Max, as his friend, has never known him. He just can’t understand him. But he has always been wanted Nineteen Hundred to leave the ship, play for the people on the land, marry a nice woman, have children and have all those things in life which are not so immense but are worth for effort. Dramatically, Nineteen Hundred stops stepping down before the moment he set his foot on the land. He throws away his hat, with a mysterious smile and goes back. In that minute, he throws away his wish of going outside. It seems he scorns everything out there, and afraid of everything out there. “All that city, you just couldn’t see the end of it. It wasn’t what I see stopped me. It was what I didn’t see. Take the piano. Keys begin. Keys end. You know there are eighty eight of them. They are not infinite. You’re infinite. And on those keys, the music that you can make is infinite. I like that. That I can live by. But you get me