Life of Pi is a pleasant surprise in the midst of so many vampire movies and vampire hunter presidents. This film judging by the absurdity of the cover and the preview, does not seem so promising, I admit that I refuted several times before deciding to watch. it was a constant suggestion of some friends, friends who I did not judge naive enough to show me a film of adolescent fantasy, as I firstly thought.
The film is technically very good, a very advanced production and good special effects. But the great triumph of the film is exactly its plot full of symbolisms that make you rethink all scenes after the watching film.
It was based on a novel written by then-unknown Canadian Yan Martel, who in turn admitted having the idea to write the book after reading a review of the book (Max and the Cats) written by Brazilian Moacyr Scliar - but that's another story . I have not read the book and I think if I saw it in a bookstore I hardly would pay attention, but I think worth to it before, because the quantity of well dosed symbolism contained in the film.
However with regard to the film I think it was a great film adaptation, judging the strength of the script.
The protagonist of the film called PI recounts his adventure to a writer looking for a good story for a book. The story of Pi relates a shipwreck that he had suffered when he was very young. Pi's father found himself pressed politically and unable to sustain its zoo and he decided to embark, on a ship, his animals and his family and left for Canada. The ship was caught in a storm and Pi managed to save himself could enter on a boat. The big problem is that he was not alone in that little boat. A zebra with a broken leg, one female orangutan and a hyena also shared the boat with Pi. The hyena attacks the zebra and the orangutan killing them. Pi getting the drift, but suddenly another animal that had remained hidden in a cover on the boat acts and kills the hyena. This character, the tiger Richard Parker is the major attraction of the zoo of Pi’s father.
This experience, as a tiger in a tiny boat is the greatest symbolism behind the movie. Pi goes to negotiate with the tiger its territory, that wild beast does not facilitate for Pi, passing all the time in fear of being attacked by the animal. When the two are already in a situation of complete physical debilitation, they reach an island. It is a small uninhabited island where everything seems to be edible. Pi feeds on roots and recovers .Meanwhile Richard Parker eats some meerkats who inhabited the island. However in the first night, Pi notices that the island had a peculiarity. While during the day the island has all the attributes of something heavenly, during the night there was a reversal of polarities. All water and any soil on that island became acid and the only safe place to stay during this period was on the top of the trees. Richard Parker ran for shelter in the boat at night while Pi and millions of meerkats sought the trees for refuge. Pi noticed that if he continued there would be consumed by the island, then decided he should leave, and took with him some meerkats to feed along with the tiger.
After 227 days at sea his boat reaches a beach in Mexico. At that moment the tiger out of the boat and penetrates into the woods leaving Pi forever without even looking back.
This is considered a key scene in the story. Pi feels betrayed by the tiger who lived throughout that difficult period and somehow was its reason for being alive. He left without looking back, and then never saw him again.
The Canadian writer who hears the story of Pi still unconvinced, asks Pi about the outcome of the story, after he was told that the story of Pi would make him believe in God, and so far in his story there was nothing that would lead him to this direction. Pi then says that when the Japanese authorities who were to interview him for producing a report about the accident, they also did not believe it was true, then Pi tells them another story. In this story Pi tells that he manages to get off the ship. With him in the boat, it was the ship's cook, who incidentally was a person almost demented, a Chinese who he had met during the trip and his mother. The cook – who had been portrayed with complete repudiation because of his despicable behavior - decides to kill the Chinese who were injured as they needed to feed, then decides to kill his own mother, Pi saw no other option but to kill the cook, then he could survive. Just like the Japanese put on your credit report. Now they had something more solid and believable to report to his superiors.
At this point we can notice that the whole story seems to make sense. The writer make a question to Pi about what is the true story. Pi responds with another question. "What story did you like the best? Pi replies that the tiger is the most beautiful.
The great symbolism behind it all is that Pi has created an allegory to live in peace with his conscience after being forced to commit some atrocities. We can clearly see that the animals on the boat with Pi were representations of his mother - the orangutan, the Chinese were wounded - the zebra, and cook jerk - the hyena - which in turn killed the Chinese and Pi’s mother and if it were not the intervention of the Tiger, he would have killed him too. But who is the tiger? The Tiger is a great personification of the story. The tiger, Richard Parker, was just Pi, or the dark side of PI. Pi had to release his inner beast to fight against all those odds. So in the movie he is always extolling the importance of the tiger while on the boat, if it was not for Richard Parker and his bestiality he would not be alive.
And when Richard Parker leaves Pi alone when the boat arrives on the beach in Mexico, he is saying goodbye to that wild side that saved his life. And maybe that's why he got disappointed when noticed that would not see the one that saved his life. He had Just arrived in the civilization he would no longer need the Tiger. His dark side or his shadow as would say some psychologists, would have to go for your own sake. While in an extremely adverse we have to throw away this black shadow of which we have control within us, in a society it could destroy us. Pi went to extremes. He saw his friend being killed, so they could feed on his flesh, then he saw his own mother being killed by the hands of a despot sure. This situation had freed the beast that was in Pi, and used their natural destructiveness - as tigers are born predators - to kill the murderer of his mother; it was the only way he could survive.
The story that seems to be the real story, involves a very extreme facet of human behavior which Pi resorted to saving, there is a story that someone wouldn’t tell with pride and Pi would not live in peace with himself if he did not create the allegory of the Tiger to be able to see with their own eyes as a viewer - the viewer as the film-all the sorrows that had to go. It would be a life so unbearable that Pi rather tell the story of the tiger seemed nobler.
But where is the moral of this story when we take into account the religious aspect that appears from the beginning of the film in the dialogues that Pi has with the Canadian writer?
I think that religion needs no explanation. It does not need a proof for it to be of any use in a person's life. The question may be whether this-religion - can save me? Can keep me away from my dark side? Make me stay away from what might destroy me? That is, for the writer who was disbelieving in God , that allegory was defined as a nice story to be told and could serve as an example to others who might find themselves in the same situation of Pi. At the extreme of human survival. So the question should not be: "Is there a God?" But rather: "Is there an applicability for these fantastic stories - and why not fanciful - in our lives?" Yes it is relevant to that plot. However remains a mystery. What is the role of the first island that Pi came before coming to Mexico?
I am tending to think that this fantastic island that fed those who arrived there, for Pi who had found a human tooth into a lotus flower that made him assume that island would also devour him like it certainly had done with owner of that tooth. Maybe this island is a metaphor for religion itself. It presents itself to us as a safe fortress. Remember that the roots were edible all wells in the inland the waters were fresh and drinkable, Richard Parker could eat as many meerkats he wanted, because there were millions of them. During the day. We note that all religions are good and presentable, in moments of extreme anguish we did not notice that when the night comes we have to run to the trees, to the only place where there is insurance. What represent the trees on that island? Clearly those who bring this safely to their faithful.
The arms of its god represented by its priests. The trees were pastors, priests and religious gurus who offered a safe haven on earth, but in return they should follow them blindly without asking why the land become acidic during the night. If they wanted to find safety only in the arms of these spiritual leaders.
Therefore Pi decided to leave the island. In that place he would be consumed if it were not sustained by trees.
I think this movie is not so naive and simple as it may seem. Watch and try to do your personal interpretations, because this parable may represent much for thinking minds.
Original em português:
Click aqui
Life of Pi is a pleasant surprise in the midst of so many vampire movies and vampire hunter presidents. This film judging by the absurdity of the cover and the preview, does not seem so promising, I admit that I refuted several times before deciding to watch. it was a constant suggestion of some friends, friends who I did not judge naive enough to show me a film of adolescent fantasy, as I firstly thought.
The film is technically very good, a very advanced production and good special effects. But the great triumph of the film is exactly its plot full of symbolisms that make you rethink all scenes after the watching film.
It was based on a novel written by then-unknown Canadian Yan Martel, who in turn admitted having the idea to write the book after reading a review of the book (Max and the Cats) written by Brazilian Moacyr Scliar - but that's another story . I have not read the book and I think if I saw it in a bookstore I hardly would pay attention, but I think worth to it before, because the quantity of well dosed symbolism contained in the film.
However with regard to the film I think it was a great film adaptation, judging the strength of the script.
The protagonist of the film called PI recounts his adventure to a writer looking for a good story for a book. The story of Pi relates a shipwreck that he had suffered when he was very young. Pi's father found himself pressed politically and unable to sustain its zoo and he decided to embark, on a ship, his animals and his family and left for Canada. The ship was caught in a storm and Pi managed to save himself could enter on a boat. The big problem is that he was not alone in that little boat. A zebra with a broken leg, one female orangutan and a hyena also shared the boat with Pi. The hyena attacks the zebra and the orangutan killing them. Pi getting the drift, but suddenly another animal that had remained hidden in a cover on the boat acts and kills the hyena. This character, the tiger Richard Parker is the major attraction of the zoo of Pi’s father.
This experience, as a tiger in a tiny boat is the greatest symbolism behind the movie. Pi goes to negotiate with the tiger its territory, that wild beast does not facilitate for Pi, passing all the time in fear of being attacked by the animal. When the two are already in a situation of complete physical debilitation, they reach an island. It is a small uninhabited island where everything seems to be edible. Pi feeds on roots and recovers .Meanwhile Richard Parker eats some meerkats who inhabited the island. However in the first night, Pi notices that the island had a peculiarity. While during the day the island has all the attributes of something heavenly, during the night there was a reversal of polarities. All water and any soil on that island became acid and the only safe place to stay during this period was on the top of the trees. Richard Parker ran for shelter in the boat at night while Pi and millions of meerkats sought the trees for refuge. Pi noticed that if he continued there would be consumed by the island, then decided he should leave, and took with him some meerkats to feed along with the tiger.
After 227 days at sea his boat reaches a beach in Mexico. At that moment the tiger out of the boat and penetrates into the woods leaving Pi forever without even looking back.
This is considered a key scene in the story. Pi feels betrayed by the tiger who lived throughout that difficult period and somehow was its reason for being alive. He left without looking back, and then never saw him again.
The Canadian writer who hears the story of Pi still unconvinced, asks Pi about the outcome of the story, after he was told that the story of Pi would make him believe in God, and so far in his story there was nothing that would lead him to this direction. Pi then says that when the Japanese authorities who were to interview him for producing a report about the accident, they also did not believe it was true, then Pi tells them another story. In this story Pi tells that he manages to get off the ship. With him in the boat, it was the ship's cook, who incidentally was a person almost demented, a Chinese who he had met during the trip and his mother. The cook – who had been portrayed with complete repudiation because of his despicable behavior - decides to kill the Chinese who were injured as they needed to feed, then decides to kill his own mother, Pi saw no other option but to kill the cook, then he could survive. Just like the Japanese put on your credit report. Now they had something more solid and believable to report to his superiors.
At this point we can notice that the whole story seems to make sense. The writer make a question to Pi about what is the true story. Pi responds with another question. "What story did you like the best? Pi replies that the tiger is the most beautiful.
The great symbolism behind it all is that Pi has created an allegory to live in peace with his conscience after being forced to commit some atrocities. We can clearly see that the animals on the boat with Pi were representations of his mother - the orangutan, the Chinese were wounded - the zebra, and cook jerk - the hyena - which in turn killed the Chinese and Pi’s mother and if it were not the intervention of the Tiger, he would have killed him too. But who is the tiger? The Tiger is a great personification of the story. The tiger, Richard Parker, was just Pi, or the dark side of PI. Pi had to release his inner beast to fight against all those odds. So in the movie he is always extolling the importance of the tiger while on the boat, if it was not for Richard Parker and his bestiality he would not be alive.
And when Richard Parker leaves Pi alone when the boat arrives on the beach in Mexico, he is saying goodbye to that wild side that saved his life. And maybe that's why he got disappointed when noticed that would not see the one that saved his life. He had Just arrived in the civilization he would no longer need the Tiger. His dark side or his shadow as would say some psychologists, would have to go for your own sake. While in an extremely adverse we have to throw away this black shadow of which we have control within us, in a society it could destroy us. Pi went to extremes. He saw his friend being killed, so they could feed on his flesh, then he saw his own mother being killed by the hands of a despot sure. This situation had freed the beast that was in Pi, and used their natural destructiveness - as tigers are born predators - to kill the murderer of his mother; it was the only way he could survive.
The story that seems to be the real story, involves a very extreme facet of human behavior which Pi resorted to saving, there is a story that someone wouldn’t tell with pride and Pi would not live in peace with himself if he did not create the allegory of the Tiger to be able to see with their own eyes as a viewer - the viewer as the film-all the sorrows that had to go. It would be a life so unbearable that Pi rather tell the story of the tiger seemed nobler.
But where is the moral of this story when we take into account the religious aspect that appears from the beginning of the film in the dialogues that Pi has with the Canadian writer?
I think that religion needs no explanation. It does not need a proof for it to be of any use in a person's life. The question may be whether this-religion - can save me? Can keep me away from my dark side? Make me stay away from what might destroy me? That is, for the writer who was disbelieving in God , that allegory was defined as a nice story to be told and could serve as an example to others who might find themselves in the same situation of Pi. At the extreme of human survival. So the question should not be: "Is there a God?" But rather: "Is there an applicability for these fantastic stories - and why not fanciful - in our lives?" Yes it is relevant to that plot. However remains a mystery. What is the role of the first island that Pi came before coming to Mexico?
I am tending to think that this fantastic island that fed those who arrived there, for Pi who had found a human tooth into a lotus flower that made him assume that island would also devour him like it certainly had done with owner of that tooth. Maybe this island is a metaphor for religion itself. It presents itself to us as a safe fortress. Remember that the roots were edible all wells in the inland the waters were fresh and drinkable, Richard Parker could eat as many meerkats he wanted, because there were millions of them. During the day. We note that all religions are good and presentable, in moments of extreme anguish we did not notice that when the night comes we have to run to the trees, to the only place where there is insurance. What represent the trees on that island? Clearly those who bring this safely to their faithful.
The arms of its god represented by its priests. The trees were pastors, priests and religious gurus who offered a safe haven on earth, but in return they should follow them blindly without asking why the land become acidic during the night. If they wanted to find safety only in the arms of these spiritual leaders.
Therefore Pi decided to leave the island. In that place he would be consumed if it were not sustained by trees.
I think this movie is not so naive and simple as it may seem. Watch and try to do your personal interpretations, because this parable may represent much for thinking minds.
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