MYST #5

Life Of Pi                           Watch a trailer here

Life of Pi is about a young boy stranded on a lifeboat, struggling to survive with a bengal tiger. Pi, the young boy, goes through a series of spiritual journeys and testings of faith to survive. He is cast away at sea after losing his entire family and everything he had ever known and is thrown onto a lifeboat, only to find a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena and unfortunately a huge bengal tiger, ironically named Richard Parker. He eventually finds himself attached to the tiger, and sees it as himself. It is a magical and adventurous story that is accurately portrayed from its book. This movie left a lot of sentimental feelings and questions at the end. This movie took me on a mystical journey. It has a lot of action and suspense in it, but is also a wonderfully filmed and beautiful movie that I would consider a piece of artwork. The special effects and cinematography was incredible and absolutely unbelievable.
Pi Patel was played by Suraj Sharma, who hadn't been in many huge movies before. He did a fantastic job acting as Pi through all the circumstances he had to go through. It was directed by Ang Lee, who used all his techniques to make the movie about a brave and solitary young man, opposed to a boring one. There was always music, which set the scene, and left out any uncomfortable silences in a story of loneliness. This film conveyed many emotions and made the viewer feel at one with Pi and as they were part of his journey towards survival.
The special effects to make the animals, especially the tiger, were utterly fantastic. It's quite difficult to make animals look so real, but this movie did the best job I had ever seen at creating real and magical looking animals. All in all I would give this movie a 5/5 star rating because I thought it was absolutely wonderful. I would definitely recommend seeing it.