![]() ![]() The bottom line, watch it while the academy rolls the red carpet for Ang Lee. This dog gives the movie a 4/5 rating with the only regret being omission of some critical consequences of the novel like the temporary blinding of Pi and the chance encounter with another survivor (who met a tragic end facing Richard Parker’s wrath). The sequence featuring floating island of meerkats in particular is as visually stunning as anything I have ever seen. So there are scenes where in you taste the saline waters, feel the thundering lights and above all the majestic presence of the big cat. Unlike run-of-the-mill Hollywood productions that deploy 3D vaguely, Life of Pi uses technology to bring forth the story and not to subdue it. But wait, it’s not the story where David beats Goliath. The dynamics of the predator prey relation comes to picture in the survivor story that spans 227 grueling days. Pi himself, an injured zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and a 450 pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker (on the name of its captor). However as fate would have it, the ship bows down to the mighty waters of Pacific ocean and when the surf settles, only a 26-foot lifeboat and five survivors are left in its wake. ![]() In a politically unstable India of 1970s, Pi Patel’s zoo keeper family decides to migrate to Canada. Stranded in a boat, a boy and a tiger not only have to define their spaces but co-exist. Director Ang Lee brilliantly brings to screen this powerful story of hope in sheer cinematic excellence, a visual delight in every frame!Ī lyrical odyssey of an angry ocean, The Life of Pi visits a familiar set piece lead character marooned in open waters – Cast Away, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver’s travels among others albeit with an imagery never seen before and a story webbed with mysticism. 2 days ago &0183 &32 Boots Riley doesn’t aim small. ![]() Yann Martel, Life of PiĮver since its movie adaptation was announced, I was skeptical if such a tale could be put on celluloid. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both. I know zoos are no longer in people’s good graces. Close them all down if you want (and let us hope that what wildlife remains can survive in what is left of the natural world). All that Martel needed was a paragraph to shake my beliefs, consider this extract:īut I don’t insist. Back then, I wasn’t affirmative whether we needed zoos in our world. I wonder if any kid ever scribbled ‘tiger’ in the space provided.įernfly gifted me Yann Martel’s bestseller Life of Pi in 2004. “If you were stranded on an island, who would you want with you?” Although different from one another in colour and contour, they always had a recurring question. Brightly colored, artistically carved into the shape of a heart or an animated character. 2 days ago &0183 &32 In Gene Stupnitsky and John Phillips’s lively comedy, the actress plays an Uber driver who shows a naive 19-year-old the ropes of grown-up life in exchange for a Buick. I remember slam books from my school years. ![]()
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