This movie was released November 12, 2012. It was Directed by Ang Lee, and won awards like Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and many more. The overall plot of the movie. After his father sells their zoo, Pi Patel and his family are moving to Canada and on their way, their boat is caught in a bad storm and somehow sinks, Pi is the only human to make it to a lifeboat with a few animals. he loses his family and everything he had after the storm, he is just drifting at sea in a boat with a Bengal tiger a zebra, a hyena and an orangutan, they have to learn to survive together with pi trying not to get eaten. The way the story is told is a story within in a story within …show more content…
So I will be going over the different elements and a few scenes for each one. Acting There were so many different emotions throughout this movie The first scene with really good acting is adult Pi is telling the story. The same thing with the emotions, as he's telling the story he relives each emotion he had when he was out at sea, which gave the story so much more meaning. So the second scene is after the shipwreck. As Pi is in the lifeboat, trying to not get eaten by the hyena or a tiger, he is hanging over the boat no expression on his face, but you have the feeling that he feels regret, sad, mad, and anger. The third scene is when Pi and Richard Parker are on the carnivorous island. Pi was relieved he found paradise but after the first night he was confused and scared--scared that he would be trapped there forever and no one will ever see him again. So he had to get back to civilization or die …show more content…
So many times with close ups and far shots the different views like Pi looking down at the pool at night, the close up on the meerkats, Pi sees Richard parker on the boat at night. The views they gave us, with Pi’s perspective and a different perspective of our own to see that world the movie is in. So going over the points I went over in this paper, the acting, the set design, and the cinematography. They were three big elements that tied the movie together, without these there would no movie. There were many more elements about this movie that were also great, but I don't want to write a 50 page paper. My overall opinion of this movie is that the thought of the will to survive with impossible odds. It's a heartwarming story, that gives me inspiration on how I live my life. I would definitely recommend this movie to anyone, It's filled with everything, love, suspense, danger, action. Everything about this movie is perfect, the acting, when Pi lost his family and his emotions the set design the way they had the ocean right down to a single wave. there are so many different meanings to everything in this movie. The tiger/ and Pi, The monkey/ the and mom, The hyena/ and the cook, the zebra/ and the sailor. They all tie together in some way in the movie, in different stories and believing what you want to
Pi was afraid and surprised that Richard Parker was in the boat once he had lifted the blanket. Then Richard Parker had roared at him and tried to attack by his claws ,but pi had gotten away as soon as he did. Pi and Richard Parker started to roamed slowly around the boat in the middle of the ocean. Pi didn't trust Richard Parker because he knows that he only wanted to kill and eat pi. Pi tried to get rid of the tiger and then he tried avoiding the tiger, but as time goes on he got tired of trying get rid of Richard Parker. So then he began tame the tiger by using his whistle he had gotten from his locker. As he and Richard Parker started to get along through the past days,they have become really close friends.
“When you look into an animal’s eyes, you are seeing your own emotions reflected back at you,” (Lee, 2013, scene 50) a young Pi Patel’s father tells him after being found sticking his hand into the cage of Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger kept at their family zoo. From an early age, the boy had connected to a sense of humanity and personhood in the animals he grew up around, something that grows to animate itself even further in his adolescence when Pi finds himself a castaway with Richard Parker and several other animals after the ship carrying his family of people and jungle creatures from India to Canada sinks in the middle of the Pacific. Many years later Pi tells the story of his struggle for survival to an American writer, claiming that it will make him believe in God. His father’s foretelling assertion echoes in the ears of film analysts, as the relationships Pi describes forming with his companions at sea can be interpreted as a symbolic manifestation of Pi’s own psychological processes. Through using a psychoanalytic lens to analyze Pi’s story
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This unimaginable tale, is the course of events upon Pi’s journey in the Pacific ocean after the ship that Pi and his family were aboard crashes, leaving him stranded with a tiger named Richard Parker, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena. Pi loses everything he has and starts to question why this is happening to him. This is parallel to the story of Job. Job is left with nothing and is experiencing great suffering and he begins to demand answers from God. Both Pi and Job receive no answers, only being left with their faith and trust. To deal with this great suffering Pi begins to describe odd things which begin to get even more unbelievable and ultimately become utterly unrealistic when he reaches the cannibalistic island. Richard Parker’s companionship serves to help Pi through these events. When the reader first is intoduced to Richard Parker he emerges from the water, making this symbolic of the subconscious. Richard Parker is created to embody Pi’s alter ego. Ironically, each of these other animals that Pi is stranded with comes to symbolize another person. The orangutan represents Pi’s mother, the zebra represents the injured sailor, and the hyena represents the cook. Pi fabricated the people into animals in his mind to cope with the disillusion and trails that came upon him while stranded at the erratic and uncontrollable sea,
... The collection of information given towards the end of the story when Pi is expressing his experience to the investigators ends up being key to understanding how it has a connection to Freud’s idea of psychoanalysis. When Pi reveals an alternate story of the events that unraveled and led him to the Mexican beach, it brings his story to a halt. The reader has to decide for themselves which story to believe. When looking at both stories, it is easy to match up the connections on the characters being switched.
Another significant scene was when Pi was challenged to run into a church on one of the mountains and drink the holy water. This was when he was introduced to the Christian faith. Pi was then introduced to the Muslim faith later. He then decided to embrace all the religions including the religion he was born into which was Hinduism and this was the point where Pi started his spiritual journey looking for meaning.
Although, the reader may not be able to notice this at first glance due to the fact that Pi is on a lifeboat. Many readers may not understand how much they can connect with this idea. Pi worked hard each day to live alongside Richard Parker, and fight mental and physical battles which affected him every day. This novel relates to people in their everyday lives with the idea of perseverance. Pi is an amazing example of how when things may seem impossible, that is the best opportunity to come up with something new. He pushes himself to the limits each and every day. If everyone were to push themselves as much as Pi does on the lifeboat, they could live an improved life, and feel more free. Persevering through the tough times may seem demanding, but the outcome is one like no
Through Pi’s strenuous experiences, He gains an understanding to balance his differing interests and learns that with both he is one. Pi is introduced to his inner strength as a result of the orangutan suffering. A close-up shot accentuates Pi’s change of facial expression to unwavering anger. The low angle shot reveals cloudy detecting pathetic fallacy as it resembles Pi’s empowerment and vexation. Pi’s battle between his morals and instincts are successfully demonstrated When Pi points a spear at Richard Parker with the accompaniment of a high angle shot. This shot successfully show Pi’s dominance in his changed behaviour toward Richard Parker, representative of Pi’s inner power for survival. This exemplifies Pi’s internal struggle to balance both his morals and primal instincts, in the process of discovering his holistic persona. Pi begins to gain an understanding of the tiger’s behaviour in a training scene between the two conflicting characters. the scene begins with high and low angle shots to depict the struggle and fight for power between Pi’s moral and his survival instincts. Eye level shots of both characters emphasise Pi’s discovery that he should not be in hostility with his own instincts but rather accepts it is apart of his being, thus discovering the truth of himself and his own
The projection of Richard Parker helps Pi to be aware of this current situation, which was him being stranded in the ocean on a lifeboat in comparison to his beliefs in his religions. His fear towards Richard Parker was one of the reasons of his survival. Pi says, “Fear and reason fought over answer. Fear said yes. He was a fierce, 450-pound carnivore. Each of his claws was sharp as a knife” (Martel 108). Pi describes Richard Parker as an extremely dangerous, fearful, and vicious predator. This causes Pi keep aware because he is on a boat with a deadly carnivore. He tries to keep awake at night while being on the lifeboat with Richard Parker from the fear of being attacked and eaten by the Bengal tiger. However, since Richard Parker is Pi’s id, it was actually him keeping himself aware and alive. Pi states, “If I still had the will to live, it was thanks to Richard Parker. He kept me from thinking too much about my family and my tragic circumstances” (Martel 164). This shows how Richard Parker occupies Pi’s mind and influences his thoughts about the tragic incident that has happened. The will to live for Pi is no longer his family, but Richard Parker, his id. Richard Parker taught Pi how to survive based on his instincts an...
In this interesting book Life of Pi in the begin it was about what every young child goes through when they are or have something different from the other kids at school; bullying. The main character of this story is Piscine Molitor Patel aka Pi. As the young Pi was attending school he would get bullied from everyone school students and even teachers. Pi was being called pissing from the teachers because they couldn’t pronounce Piscine. The students actually started the whole pissing thing and then the teachers would call him that not noticing what they were actually doing. Until one day when Piscine was fed up with the name “Pissing”. In class whenever a teacher called his name he would walk up towards the blackboard and wrote that his name is Piscine Molitor Patel. He also told everyone that they could call him Pi; as he was doing this he drew a circle and cut it into two diameters. Anytime he was called he would pull this stunt and everyone was chanting Pi Pi Pi. This action made him extremely happy no longer being called Pissing that is in the past now.
From the start of this movie, it immediately drew my attention with three minutes of the beautiful landscapes of Paris. It takes you around the famous Eiffel Tower, the Seine River, and romantic
You don't have to be into religion to understand and allow yourself to get into this movie. Excellently set on a secluded lake in the mountains in Korea , director Kim Ki-duk has created a classic love story with a religious twist with the movie Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, And Spring. The movie doesn’t have a lot of talking and characters. The title is used to show the growing up of a young boy and shows a few valuable lessons on the way. The old man and his student live on a floating monastery, away from all life and that is significant because it shows that you don’t need to be around people 24/7 to live life to the fullest. To be honest I didn’t think I was going to make it through this movie. It didn’t have a lot of talking I think I could count the number of conversations on my hand. But it was something very powerful about this movie that caught me, I think it was the sense of the father and son bonding, something that isn’t very common.
Things that make me really love and strong point of this movie are how delivered the actor who delivered the role out incredibly well makes the movie impressive and how the film always says that sadness is normal, everything is a live. Sadness does not make it less beautiful. But using lots of flowery language makes a little confuse. However this movie is properly for everyone, there is about love, lovers and family, but that is more lifestyle’s patient. The movie teaches us a truth which sadness or a bad thing is a thing that everyone has to face and cannot escape it. So we have to accept and live life
This movie is very visually appealing, and it is no wonder that it won Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects at the Oscars. But this isn’t just about some people throwing out loads of money to make the movie look nice. It tells a very heartbreaking story of how a boy loses his entire family, and is thrown into the danger of surviving on a lifeboat with wild animals. Where this movie lacks in reality, it makes up for it in genuine emotion. We see many examples of this, like when Pi is staring at the ship sink to the bottom of the ocean, the determination in his face to win the battle for dominance with the tiger on the lifeboat, and the sheer defeat in his eyes as they are starving to death. As mentioned in the critical review, Pi survives the lifeboat, and when he is back on land, gets questioned by reporters. One of the stories he tells them is how we saw it in the movie: Surviving on the lifeboat with a tiger, zebra, hyena and orangutan, and also discovering a mysterious floating island. The second story he tells them however, is one far more realistic, with no animals on board the lifeboat, only humans. He seems to replace the zebra with a Chinese sailor, the hyena with a crazy chef, and the orangutan with his mother. We have to assume that in the ‘human story’, Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger is Pi. In both stories, the only ones
Richard Parker- Richard Parker is a real tiger that was on the ship to America and swam to the lifeboat to stay alive. He was tamed and was in a zoo so he knows how to act to Pi’s dominance. Richard Parker helps Pi gain confidence when facing other dangers because he already faced the tiger. Richard Parker represents the more animalistic part of Pi, the part that does the things that he would not usually do. For instance, giving up on his vegetarianism and eating fish and birds to stay alive. Richard Parker gave Pi something to do and think about and is what kept him from giving up while on the lifeboat.