Life of Pi

2012

2h 7m

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7.4/10

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The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Directors

Ang Lee

Writers

Yann Martel(novel by)

David Magee(screenplay by)

Bombay Jayashri(lyricist by)

Stars

Suraj Sharma

Irrfan Khan

Ayush Tandon

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Suraj Sharma

Pi Patel

Irrfan Khan

Adult Pi Patel

Ayush Tandon

Pi Patel (11-12 Years)

Pi Patel (5 Years)

Santosh Patel

Gita Patel

Ravi Patel (7 Years)

Ravi Patel (13-14 Years)

Vibish Sivakumar

Ravi Patel (18-19 Years)

Rafe Spall

Writer

Gérard Depardieu

Cook

James Saito

Older Insurance Investigator

Jun Naito

Younger Insurance Investigator

Priest

Anandi

Mamaji

Science Teacher

Indian History Teacher

Directors

Ang Lee

Writers

Yann Martel(novel by)

David Magee(screenplay by)

Bombay Jayashri(lyricist by)

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My rating: 4 out of 10 stars A young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of adventure and discovery. While cast away, he forms an unexpected connection with another survivor: a fearsome Bengal tiger. I did not have huge expectations on this movie since it is not exactly my style of movie but nevertheless I have to say that I was disappointed. The movie is certainly quite beautiful to watch, at least part of it. However it is also a movie with a strong theistic agenda. Even though it is, luckily, not really religious/political extremism it is thick and intruding nonetheless. I was expecting Pi to actually learn something during the course of his adventure but he does not. He starts the movie gullible and foolish looking for meaning in life (religion) and the movie ends pretty much in the same way with him claiming that he had faith and therefore he survived. Yet none of the decisions he made was based on faith but simply pragmatical decisions of survival. If anything the movie proved that faith or religion had nothing to do with it. As I said the movie was, partly, quite beautiful to watch and this is entirely what rendered it the stars that I gave it. For the rest it was a very boring movie. The only mildly entertaining part was the scenes on the boat with Gérard Depardieu playing the very unpleasant cook. As beautiful to watch as they were many of the scenes were quite unrealistic though and had an artificial look to them even when, I believe, it was not intended. We bought the movie because my youngest daughter loves movies about animals but not even she was overly entertained by this movie.

Dark Jedi01 Jul, 2018