INTRODUCTION
Life of Pi is a 2012 American adventure film directed by Ang Lee. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, living in Canada and telling a novelist about his life story and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck in which his family dies, and is stranded in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
AWARDS
Ang Lee`s ‘Life of Pi’, won the 85th Academy Award for best cinematography, Best visual effects, Best direction and Best original score on Sunday night.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454876/awards
MAIN ACTORS
Sahabzade Irrfan Ali Khan (Older Pi): is an Indian film actor known for his works predominantly in Bollywood. He is also known for his works in British Indian films, Hollywood ventures, and a Telugu film. In India, Khan gained the reputation of a skilled actor from his roles in Bollywood movies such as The Warrior, Maqbool, Haasil, Charas: A Joint Effort, Paan Singh Tomar, Knock Out, Gunday, The Lunchbox, and Rog.
Suraj
Sharma (Pi Patel): is an Indian actor, who made his debut with the title role
in the 2012 film Life of Pi. Life of Pi was adapted from the novel of the same
name. In 2014, he played a recurring role in the fourth season of the
television series Homeland.
Adil Hussain (father of Pi): is an Indian stage, television and film actor from the state of Assam, who works in mainstream Hindi cinema as well as art house cinema. He has worked in international films like The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2012) and Life of Pi (2012).
Tabu
(mother of Pi): is an Indian film actress. She has primarily acted in Hindi
films, and has also appeared in English, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi and
Bengali language films. She has won the National Film Award for Best Actress
twice, and has received six Filmfare Awards, including a record four Critics
Award for Best Actress. She was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of
India in 2011.
ARGUMENT
Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan), an immigrant from India living in Canada, is approached by a local novelist (Rafe Spall) who has been referred to him by his "uncle" (a family friend), believing that Pi's life story would make a great book. Pi relates an extended tale:
His parents had named him Piscine Molitor after a swimming pool in France. He changes his name to "Pi" (the mathematical symbol,) when he begins secondary school, even repeating numerous digits of pi, because he is tired of being taunted with the nickname "Pissing Patel". His family owns a local zoo, and Pi takes an interest in the animals, especially a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker because of a clerical error. Pi tries to feed the tiger, endangering himself to being attacked, and to teach him the reality of the tiger's nature as a carnivore, Pi's father, Santosh Patel (Adil Hussain) forces him to witness it killing a goat.
When Pi is 16 (Ayush Tandon), his father decides to close the zoo and move his family to Canada, and sell the zoo animals. They book passage with their animals on a Japanese freighter named the Tsimtsum. One night, the ship encounters a heavy storm and begins to sink while Pi is on deck marveling at the storm. He tries to find his family, but a crew member throws him into a lifeboat; from the rough sea, he watches helplessly as the ship sinks, killing his family and its crew.
Pi finds himself in the lifeboat with an injured zebra, and is joined by an orangutan A spotted hyena emerges from the tarp covering half of the boat, and kills the zebra. Suddenly Richard Parker emerges from under the tarp, and kills and eats the hyena.
Pi finds emergency food and water rations on the boat. He builds a small raft of flotation devices.Pi begins fishing He also collects rain water for both to drink. At one point, he makes a board ladder for the tiger to climb back into the boat after it had jumped off to hunt fish. In a nighttime encounter with a breaching whale, Pi loses much of his supplies. Faced with starvation, he eats raw fish. After many days at sea, Pi realizes that he can no longer live on the tiny raft and trains the tiger Richard Parker to accept him in the boat. He also realizes that caring for the tiger is keeping him alive.
After weeks longer at sea, near the end of their strength, they reach a floating island of edible plants, supporting a forest, fresh water pools, and a large population of meerkats. Both Pi and Richard Parker eat and drink freely and regain strength. But at night the island transforms into a hostile environment, with the fresh water turning acidic, digesting all the dead fish that died in the pools. The tiger returns to the lifeboat at night. Pi finds a human tooth inside a plant flower and concludes that the plants are carnivorous, requiring them to leave the island.
The lifeboat eventually reaches the coast of Mexico. Finally back on land, Richard Parker stumbles away from Pi and stops at the edge of the jungle. Pi expects that the tiger will turn toward him and acknowledge him, but instead he looks into the jungle for a while and goes in. Pi, too weak to follow, lies in the sand. He is rescued by a group who carry him to hospital, but he weeps that the tiger had walked away without him.
The lifeboat eventually reaches the coast of Mexico. Finally back on land, Richard Parker stumbles away from Pi and stops at the edge of the jungle. Pi expects that the tiger will turn toward him and acknowledge him, but instead he looks into the jungle for a while and goes in. Pi, too weak to follow, lies in the sand. He is rescued by a group who carry him to hospital, but he weeps that the tiger had walked away without him.
In hospital, insurance agents for the Japanese freighter come to hear his account of the incident. They find his story unbelievable, and ask him to tell them what "really" happened, if only for the credibility of their report. He answers with a less fantastic but detailed account of sharing the lifeboat with his mother, a sailor with a broken leg, and the cook. In this story, the cook kills the sailor to use him as bait and food. In a later struggle, Pi's mother pushes him to safety on a smaller raft, and the cook stabs her as she falls overboard to the sharks. Later, Pi returns to grab the knife and kills the cook.
PERSONAL OPINION
Life of Pi
is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel. The protagonist, Piscine
Molitor Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry , explores issues of spirituality
and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a sinking while
stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard
Parker.
On the one
hand, the best part has been the sinking and I love impressive special effects
that made it all seem real. My favorite
scene has been when just the man well and form a family.
On the
other hand, the worst has been the child's suffering with the loss of his
family and when at the end of the film the tiger abandons the child.
Finally, I
think that we are Pi in one way or the other. The sea represents the problems
that surround us, with the sea creatures representing the people involved that
help us, cope with or instigate the problems.