Life of PI (2012) - Movie review
Pi has lived his childhood in a calm and pictorial city of South India that is known as Pondicherry. Claudio Miranda has magnificently filmed his early days in a bright background that gets some hint of exoticism by Mychael Danna’s score. Indian actors Adil Hussain and Tabu have played the roles of Pi’s parents and are attraction of “Life of Pi”.
Young Pi is conquered by religion. According to the Canadian novelist, Pi’s tale will make you accept God as true. All Hindu divinities were like superheroes to Pi and he also collected heroes from other religions too when he reaches a certain period. Pi brings a prayer that is a summary of his friend and comprehensive approach to the disreputably discordant subject of theology like he says “I am thankful to Vishnu for bringing in Christ to me.”
Pi’s father warned him that if he believes in everything then he would not believe in anything in the end. Pi’s parent’s wisdom advice recognizes a serious imperfection in “Life of Pi,” who accepts a faith devoid of taking it sincerely. Pi’s parents are also worried about every little he does.
“Life of Pi,” brings some religious questions like what is real and what is not and what should be believed.
How Pi solves the intensive matters, is the heart of the “Life of Pi”. How the food is secured and water is cleaned? How he stays sensible and confident? How he stay away from Richard Parker’s dinner? The movie is all about it. The relationship between Richard Parker and Pi is difficult, involves fear and rivalry at Pi’s end.
Mr. Sharma is a lanky and pleasant presence and enough humbleness does not mind being upstaged by a computer-made kitty. Tales of lonely continued existence have a strong, almost original appeal, and the center part of “Life of Pi” boldly shows a room for itself beside “Robinson Crusoe” and Robert Zemeckis’s “Cast Away.”
Mr. Lee is an energetic visual artist who has brought great work of digital cinema in the movie and images in “Life of Pi” are so beautiful and surprising.
“Life of Pi’s tale frame surrounds these striking images complicated and weakens them. The novelist and the older Pi eagerly impose understanding on the story of the boy and the creature; however they are also dedicated to keeping those understandings as indistinct and universal as possible. Repressing the darker implication of the tale disturbingly renders the feelings that nobody can handle the presence of cruelty and senseless death.
To sum up, “Life of Pi” lets it viewers consider it more like an answer of illusion or dishonesty than of serious loyalty. The film encourages you to accept every kind of wonderful things as true.
