Life of Pi
Rated PG and Released 11/21/12
Reviewed 11/23/12 at Celebration Cinema in Muskegon, MI
with Gary, Leigh, and Denny
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| 2 1/2 out of 5 Js in QUIET Rating System |
I saw this movie before I started the blog, but with Oscar nominations out I thought it pertinent to post.
The movie begins with Pi as an adult retelling his youthful tale to an author seeking a real adventure story. It toggles back and forth between the young Pi and the older Pi with the writer. The young Pi grows up at his family-owned zoo in Pondicherry, India, which looks more like paradise (both the city and the zoo). Living at the zoo, a curious Pi escapes a close encounter with a Bengal Tiger named Richard Parker, and his father uses this as a teachable moment for him to keep forever. A turn of events leads the family to move, board a ship, and as a result Pi ends up on a lifeboat with the fierce Richard Parker. Pi takes to heart his father's earlier lesson of how tigers and and others cannot naturally co-exist and this reveals itself. Pi does make it 227 days on the lifeboat. He wouldn't be retelling the story if this wasn't the case. The backstory took too long to end and to get to the sea adventure of the movie, but the exploits these two survivors experience are enough to keep your interest adequately. There is a twist at the conclusion of the story where the listening author has to decide which one was the reality. This is the highlight of the movie where Lee has an imaginative way of ending what is really a goofy story that could have just stayed in book form.
QUIET Rating system: JJj
Quality: JJJ
Understood story: JJJ
Interest: JJj
Entertainment: JJj
Time: J
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