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I have recently watched the movie Life of Pi, though i haven't read the book yet I found the movie very interesting with its light and peculiarly amusing plot.
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The movie is about Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel who at a young age, struggled to determine his spirituality. In his adult life, Pi was visited by an aspiring writer who urges him to tell his life tales, particularly the story that will make him believe in God.
As Pi recounts his life events: his unusual uncle, how he got his name, how he was ridiculed in his young life, his first love and him leaving his hometown and letting go of their family business; zoo, the story is then directed toward his shipwreck experience where he tries to survive being stranded in a boat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, the story is such an incredible tale of endurance that even as a work of fiction, its difficult to accept.
After surviving the ordeal, Pi was visited in the hospital by two marines who are investigating the shipwreck, the two marines wanted to hear a believable story from Pi, so he decided to deliver a bland version of his survival, one of which Pi provides an alternative take on the events where humans portray the animals in his original story .
At the end of the movie both the marines and the viewer will have the chance to contemplate which story of Pi to believe in. In my opinion, believing in Pi's first story is like believing in your religion, you dont have an exact proof that it happened and it exists, but you still choose to believe in it. Having heard the second story of Pi, which consisted of his family and ship crew is indeed more plausible, but it was depressing and insipid. Unlike the first anecdote which is full of variety or interest, the second version failed to provide a different point of view in ones life it was less challenging, less descriptive, non animated and blank. Overall, I loved the movie, its an eye-opener and will surely make you put yourself in Pi's shoe or this case, his boat. :)
