《海上钢琴师》是由朱塞佩·托纳托雷执导的剧情片。该片改编自亚利桑德罗·巴里克文学剧本《1900：独白》，讲述了一个被命名为“1900”的弃婴在一艘豪华客轮上与钢琴结缘，成为钢琴大师的传奇故事。电影描写了他在船上的生活经历：豪华邮轮上遗弃的孤儿，无师自通地成为钢琴高手，结识小号手MAX，与爵士乐鼻祖杰尼斗琴大赛，爱上一个女孩，拒绝下船，与邮轮共存亡的故事。

1900是一个纯粹的人。他崇尚自由的灵魂与快乐。他演奏音乐的时候，都是用心地在演奏，所有的听众会被他所感染。在遇到心动女孩的时候，他情不自禁地演奏出动情的音乐。他不愿意离开那艘船，即使知道这艘船即将被炸毁，小号手MAX坚持寻找他，想带他离开。他跟MAX说起了自己的心里话，这正是整部片里让人最动容的一刻。

It wasn't what I saw that stopped me, Max, it was what I didn't see. Do you understand that? What I didn't see.

In all that sprawling city, there was everything except an end. There was no end.

What I did not see was where the whole thing came to an end, the end of the world.

Take a piano, hmm? The keys begin, the keys end. You know there are 88 of them. Nobody can tell you different. They are not infinite. You are infinite. And on those keys, the music that you can make is infinite.

I like that. That I can live by.

You get me up on that gangway and you rill out in front of me a keyboard of millions of keys, Millions and billions of keys that never end.

That's the truth, Max, they never end. That keyboard is infinite.

And if that keyboard is infinite, then on that keyboard there is no music you can play.

You are sitting on the wrong bench. That's God's piano.

Christ! Did you see the streets? Just the street-----there were thousands of them.

How do you do it down there? How do you choose just one?

One woman, one house, one piece of land to call your own, one landscape to look at, one way to die. All that world just weighing down on you. You don't even know where it comes to an end.

Aren't you ever just scared of breaking apart at the thought of it? The enormity of it.

I was born on this ship, and the world passed me by.

But 2000 people at a time, and there were wishes here.

But never more than fit between prow and stern.

You played put your happiness, but on a piano that was not infinite! I learned to live that way.

Land? Land is a ship too big for me. It's a woman too beautiful, it's a voyage too long, a perfume too strong, it's music I don't know how to make.

I can never get off this ship. I'm blessed I can step off my life. After all, I don't exist for anyone.

You are the exception, Max. You are the only one who knows I'm here. You are a minority, and you'd better get used of it.

Forgive me, my friend, but I'm not getting off.