Life of Pi (2012)
Director: Ang Lee
Producers: Gill Netter, Ang Lee,
David Womark
Cast: Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma
(Piscine Molitor Patel i.e., Pi Patel), Rafe Spall (Yann Martel).
This movie based on the eponymous book
by Yann Martel is terrific.
An
older gentleman named Pi Patel starts telling his story to a Canadian author.
Piscine Molitor Patel is a young boy
who was named after a swimming pool in Paris that his ‘mamaji’ swam in and
called the best pool he ever ‘collected’, which meant the best pool amongst all
the pools that he had swam. His father owned a zoo in the botanical gardens and
his mother worked as a botanist there. At school, he was teased and jeered at
for his name, which sounded like pi****g. He had to endure continuous teasing
because of his name. He described it as ‘the name of a grand swimming pool had
turned into a toilet’. Hence in school, he insisted that he be called after the
Greek letter ‘pi’. He found some solace in religion and the zoo which his
father owned. His father was a part of the so-called ‘New India’, which
considered religion backward.
Pi, on a visit to Munnar, was
introduced to Christianity, which he gladly took. Later, he was also introduced
to Islam, from which his father says that believing in everything is as bad as
believing in nothing. One day, his father decided to move to Winnipeg, Canada.
On the ship ‘Tsimtsum’ after the Manila port, the ship wrecks and he is trapped
on the ship with a tiger named Richard Parker and other assorted animals. The
movie comprises of Pi’s interaction with the tiger. Want to know more? Watch
the movie!
I really liked the movie. I also
cried a lot, since the start of the time on the lifeboat was horrifying. A
rogue hyena kills an injured giraffe and an orangutan. Then, the tiger kills
the hyena. I was so sad; I couldn’t help but cry. The cook, a fat man who
couldn’t understand English as he spoke French. The cook was a vile man, he
hated vegetarians (or he couldn’t understand). The cook was a part of a
different story as he was forced to tell a believable story when the Japanese ship
company owners asked Pi what happened. The experience on a lifeboat was not
happy at all, when a whale flipped and all his food supply went down the drain.
No flaws
could be seen, and no animals were harmed just saying, as absolutely no animals
were used and they all were CGI. Who’d want a rogue hyena on the shooting?[SB1]
I wholeheartedly recommend this
movie because:
1.
The plotline is amazing.
2.
The
casting for the characters was amazing.
3.
Suraj
Sharma’s acting as Pi was amazing.
4.
The
screenplay is awesome.
5.
Overall,
THE MOVIE IS AN EMOTIONAL ROLLERCOSTER!
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