Talk About "Life of Pi" - The Real Story 1

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

Look in my heart, kind friends, and tremble,

Since there your elements assemble.

－－Siegfried Sassoon（1886-1967）

Last week, I went to watch a 3D movie "Life of Pi". It is directed by Ang Li. A large number of people, like children and student, believe it is just magical and beautiful. Actually, this is a philosophical and oppressive film, too.

I will analysis it through four articles.

Pi is a young man born in India. He believes in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism. His father runs a zoo. One day, Pi's father decide to move their family Canada, with the animals in the zoo. Pi's father want to sell them abroad. Unfortunately, they experience a shipwreck. Pi's families are all dead in this shipwreck. Pi fall to a lifeboat and survived. There are a hyena, a broken leg zebra, a female orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker".

In the first three days of rafting, hyena killed the orangutan, eat the zebra, and then the tiger killed the hyena. Next this young man's survival story at sea is the story that how to cope with "Richard Parker". Pi couldn't victory over the tiger, in the end, he chose to live with a tiger. In this 7 months, he needs to collect freshwater, catching fish and shrimp. He needs to feed the tiger and also allow himself to survive.

                 

Of course, they encountered a rainstorm, shark attack and a variety of exciting and bloody dangerous. When they eat up all the foods, Pi prepare to easily die. However, a miracle happened, they arrived a paradise island by drifting. After a short stay, Pi find he did not want to die on this island. So he started drifting with the tiger again until be rescued at Mexico Beach.

Until now, we know is the first story of Pi. And then, young man Pi told us the second story. Many people believe the second story is fabricated. But when we look back, many details in the movie flash in our brain, these details change into foreshadowing, let us find a ruthless bloody story.

Let's talk about the end of the movie first. When Pi talked the first story to two Japanese company representatives, Japanese could not believe it and they thought Pi are lying. Japanese want a real story without hyena, zebra, orangutan and tiger. Then, Pi told us another story:

Actually, there are no animals on the lifeboat. Only a cook, a broken leg Chinese sailor, Pi and his mother.The cook has killed and eaten the sailor, then he killed his mother. Eventually Pi are intolerable and killed the cook. The final reality is only Pi survived.

The second story is over. Two Japanese were amazed. Maybe we consider they chose the second story. However, when the writer who interview Pi, open the file of this event, we can see "Finally, he and his animal companions survived in the last" in the end of file. Obviously, they chose the first story which is not so cruel. Next, Pi asked the writer, which story do you prefer? The writer said, the story with tiger. Pi said, so you follow God.

Here, many audience became realized the four people in the second story is the four animals in the first story. Sailor is the zebra, the cook is the hyena, female orangutan is mother and Pi is the tiger.

This time, can you believe the second story? I will continue analysis it in the next article.