I finally got around to watching the movie, and I simply didn't like it.

I don't know what it was about it, it just wasn't the movie for me, I suppose.

Paolo wrote: Tue Apr 16, 2013 3:50 pm I finally got around to watching the movie, and I simply didn't like it.

I don't know what it was about it, it just wasn't the movie for me, I suppose.

At the very beginning PI's uncle tell the WRITER to go see PI and hear a story that will make him believe in God.

Of the two stories that PI tells about the freighter sinking and his survival, which one brings the reader closer to God?

Which one enriches life?

Yeah, I got all that.

I still hated the movie, though.

I accidentally added this to the wrong post last night.

I apologize for the error.

I came back to explain more. It is an allegory.

in one story, when the ship sinks there are four people in the lifeboat -- PI, the Cook, the sailor who broke his back falling in, and PI's mother. After a few days the cook kills the sailor and starts to butcher him for bait, Pi's mother fights with the cook and he strikes her, killing her. Pi goes into a rage and kills the chef. Then he is left and is the only survivor when the lifeboat lands in Mexico.

In the other story, All the people drown. AT first we see only the zebra, a hyena, the old female orangutan, and PI. When the hyena threatens to eat the zebra, the orangutan challenges it, The hyena kills the orangutan, It is only then that Richard Parker (the Tiger) appears from under the tarp, kills the hyena. Then only two are left to sail to the Mexican coast.

PI says at the end when he is laying on the Mexican beach:

"And then Richard Parker, my fierce companion, the terrible one who kept me alive, disappeared forever from my life."

Pi is a 14 year old boy searching all religions for a path. He found faith and god in a shipwreck as a castaway.

Yeah, but it's still an allegory that sucked.

It's like a bowl of petunias saying "oh no, not again"...

I have to tell you. If we knew why, we'd have all the answers.