Film Studies

 Life of pi - Movie Review 

Hello readers! In this blog I am going to discuss an interesting topic. This blog is based on the Movie Review of 'Life of Pi'. This task is assigned by yesha ma'am.  We had a movie screening session on 15 july 2022 in the department of English,MKBU. In this we watched the movie 'life of pi'. 

The Life of Pi is a great film based on Yann Martel’s novel which the story centers on Pi Patel son of an Indian Zookeeper. Pi’s family decides to move to Canada after the municipality stopped supporting the family. Pi’s father believes that they would find a place in Canada where they would sell their animals. They board a huge Japanese freighter with all their animals and set out for the ocean. 'Life of Pi' is also a sea Adventure Drama Film.

 See Also: Sea/Ocean Adventure Films

 

Cast:

Suraj Sharma - Teenage Pi patel

Mohamed Abbas Khaleeli as Ravi, age 13/14

Vibish Sivakumar as Ravi, age 18/19

Irrfan khan - Adult Pi Patel 

Tabu - Gita Patel

Adil Hussain - Santosh patel

Gerard Depardieu -  cook

Rafe spall - Writer 

Ayaan khan - Ravi patel 

Jag Huang - Sailor

The story begins in a small family zoo in Pondicherry, India, where the boy christened Piscine is raised. Piscine translates from French to English as "swimming pool," but in an India where many more speak English than French, his playmates of course nickname him "pee." Pi is from 'Hindu' family but at 12 years old, he is introduced to Christianity and Islam, then he decides to follow all three religions as he 'just wants to love God'.

Pi fell in love with one classic dancer named Anandi, but after some time, his father decided to leave India and move to canada. The Family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. They face a Storm during their journey. Pi is on deck. Pi struggles to find his family, but a crewman throws him into a lifeboat. After the storm Pi awakens in the lifeboat with the Zebra and is joined by a resourceful orangutan . A spotted Hyena emerges from under a tarpaulin covering half of the lifeboat and snaps at Pi, forcing him to retreat to the Hyena kills the Zebra and later the orangutan. Richard Parker emerges from under the tarpaulin, killing the Hyena. Now there is the tiger and Pi are only in the boat. The tiger is very dangerous so Pi creates a small raft from fishing for Richard Parker. But by one whale he lost his raft and its supplies, now he has to become non-vegetarian. Pi accepts him in the boat. 

 

He got one Island. This is full of trees, plants and meerkats. At night, Pi realizes that this island is carnivorous after finding a human tooth embedded in a flower. They leave the island and eventually reach the coast of Mexico. 

Pi is saddened that Richard Parker does not acknowledge him before disappearing into a hospital. Insurance agents for the Japanese freighter company interview him but do not believe his story and ask what really happened. He tells a different story in which the animals are replaced by human survivors. His mother is for orangutan, an amiable sailor for Zebra, and the ship's brutish cook is for Hyena. In this story, the cook kills the sailor and feeds on his flesh. He also kills Pi's mother after which Pi kills him with the knife and uses his remains as food and fish bait. The insurance agents are dissatisfied with this story, but they leave without questioning Pi's further.  

In the closing section of Life of Pi, the adult protagonist (Irrfan Khan), now living in Canada, finishes telling his story to a journalist. He reveals that his spiritual adventure was puzzling to those who interviewed him after he successfully landed in Mexico. 

The writer recognises the parallels between the two stories, noting that in the second version Pi is actually Richard Parker. Pi says that it doesn't matter which story is the truth because his family still died either way. He then asks which story the writer prefers, and the writer chooses the first, to which Pi replies "so it goes with God" Glancing at a copy of an official insurance report, the writer reads aloud that Pi survivad his great Adventure " In the company of an adult Bengal tiger". 

Martel says that 'Life of Pi' can be summarized in three statements:

1) Life is a story.

 2) You can choose your story. 

 3) A story with God is the better story.

    The movie quietly combines various religious traditions to enfold its story in the wonder of life. Every character is symbolically significant in this movie. This spiritually alluring film can bring you to a transformed appreciation for the baffling, curious, and inexplicable dimensions of life and the world around you. 

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