We had movie screening session on 15 july 2022 in the department of English,MKBU. We watched the movie 'life of pi'. On behalf of that I'm writing this blog.
'life of pi' is a 2012 adventure drama film directed and produced by Ang lee, and written by David Mangee. Based on Yann Martel's 2001novel 'life of pi'.
The film is about two survivors. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor "Pi" patel, a tamil boy from pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the pacific ocean with Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Cast:
Suraj Sharma - Teenage Pi patel
Irrfan khan - Adult Pi Patel
Tabu - Gita Patel
Adil Hussain - Santosh patel
Gerard Depardieu - cook
Rafe spall - Writer
Ayaan khan - Ravi patel
The story was starting with the amazing view of nature and animals. It shows us that the story is about nature.
One young writer meets to Pi patel for writer about Pi's life story. Pi tells his life story.
Pi's real name is Piscine Molitor Patel. Piscine Molitor is a famous swimming pool in France. Every students teasing him by his name. He got too much struggle by it. In pondicherry he get his nickname 'Pi'.
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.
Pi's family owns a zoo. Pi has interest in Bengal tiger named Richard Parker but his father forces him to witness the tiger killing a goat.
Pi fell in love with one classic dancer named Anandi, but after some time, his father announces that they are leaving India and move to canada. The Family books passage with the animals on a Japanese freighter. They face a Strom during journey. Pi is on deck. Pi struggles to find his family, but a crewman throws him into a lifeboat. After the strom 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 creats a small raft from fishing for Richard Parker. But by one whale he lost his raft and it's supplies, now he have to become non-vegetarian. Pi accept him in the boat.
He get one Island. This is full of trees, plants and meerkats. At night, Pi realise that this island is carnivorous after finding a human tooth embedded in a flower. They leave the island and eventually reaching the coats of maxico. Pi is saddened that Richard Parker does not acknowledge him before disappearing into the bought to 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 bruttish cook is for Hyena. In this story, the cook kills the sailor and feed on his flesh. He also kill 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.
“Yes.The story with animals is the better story.” Pi Patel: “Thank you. And so it goes with God.”
The writer recognise 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 ask 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 has said 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.
"Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love but sometimes it was so hard to love."
Pi thinks he did not always have an easy time maintaining his faith in God during his 277 days, despite never abandoning his religious practices. Pi sees his religious faith as an expression of love, and at sea, Pi suffers from powerful negative emotions: anger, despair, perhaps hatred for the Frenchman who tried to kill him. However, instead of dwelling on these challenges, Pi often chooses to focus on experiences that reaffirm his faith, such as the appearance of a school of fish or the arrival of a storm.
Every character, even the smallest thing is symbolically significant in this movie. Let's see a little overview about symbols.
Mathematical Pi:
Pi is a mathematical constant, 3.14, and its digits repeat endlessly. Mathematical Pi matches the character Pi's interest in the infinite and unexplainable.Pi is used to find the ratio of a circle's circumference. Circles reoccur Pi feels at the center of a circle when he has religious experiences and later when he is lost at sea.
Richard Parker:
Richard Parker symbolizes Pi's most terrifying nature. Pi had to perform many actions to stay alive on the lifeboat. Which was unimaginable to him in his normal life. A pure vegetarian, he had to kill fish and eat their flesh. As time goes on, he becomes more ruthless about it all. In his second story to Japanese investigators, Pi is Richard Parker, After Richard Parker humiliates a blind Frenchman, Pie uses the man's flesh for bait and even eats some of it, becoming a cannibal in his insatiable hunger. He kills his mother's killer. Parker is a version of himself, something the PI does to make his story more interesting, both for himself and his audience. The brutality of his mother's death and his own shocking act of revenge are very difficult for PI to cope with, and he finds it easier to imagine the tiger as the killer than himself in his role.
To sum up, we can say that 'Life of Pi' is the story of not giving up even in the toughest situation. Don't forget that there is always a ray of hope. Don't lose hope, work hard, fight with the situation. Have faith in God.
