Talk about juvenile school

Restore the truth of the story: the juvenile school without fantasy is brutally drifting.

The fantasy drifting of juvenile Pi sounds like a fantasy adventure visual blockbuster, which makes people sigh and feast their eyes. This is not the best 3D movie, but the dazzling visual effects make the whole movie natural and unpretentious. Although there is not much plot fluctuation in the narrative of the whole movie, the connection between the plots and the wonderful photography and special effects are still very shocking.

Pi is a teenager born in India who believes in Christianity, Islam and Hinduism at the same time. His father runs a zoo, so Pi knows the habits of animals from an early age ... Frankly speaking, the beginning of this story is not attractive, mixed with the growth experience of a teenager with religious beliefs. But then the plot officially entered the "fantasy drifting". He sent his family to Canada, and they were accompanied by animals in the zoo. Pi's father wants to take them abroad and sell them at a good price. However, the zoo director's family experienced a titanic shipwreck, and all the family were killed except Pi. Pi, a hyena, a zebra with a broken leg, a female orangutan and an adult Bengal tiger "Richard Parker" landed on the top of the lifeboat and survived.

In the first three days of drifting, hyenas killed orangutans, ate zebras alive and tigers killed hyenas. Next, the story of the boy's survival at sea is how to deal with Richard Parker. Knowing that I can't beat the tiger's skin, I finally chose to face the wandering life with it. In seven months, he will collect fresh water, fish and catch shrimp, and he will feed the tiger with all the skills of survival at sea to keep himself alive. Of course, this drifting also encountered storms, shark attacks and all kinds of wonderful and bloody dangers. After the remaining food of the brave and tiger runs out, they are desperate and ready to die calmly. But miraculously, they drifted to a paradise island with the boat. After a rest, he found that it was a man-eating island. The frightened Pi and the tiger started drifting again until they were rescued on the beach in Mexico, but the tiger disappeared without looking back.

However, if the story of the adventure of the teenager and the tiger at sea ends here, it's really just a lack of experience and the inability to write a film review. However, it was not until the juvenile school told the last so-called fabricated second story that the scenes flashed back and forth in my mind. Before those seemingly meaningless paragraphs have become foreshadowing, making the whole story fully connected, breaking the original adventure story full of harmony and love fantasy, and only showing a bloody story with a little cruelty.

Let's start with the end of the movie. When Pai told two Japanese company representatives about his fantastic adventure, the two Japanese people didn't believe it, and took it as a joke, hoping that Pai would tell a true story without animals, islands and ferrets. Then Pai told another version of the story of survival at sea-in fact, there were no animals in the lifeboat, only a cook, a sailor with a broken leg, Pai and his mother. The cook killed the sailor, then killed his mother, and finally the pie couldn't bear to kill the sailor. The final reality is that only pi survived in the end. The story ends with the frightened expressions of two Japanese people. Maybe we will take it for granted that they will choose this second story. But when the reporter who interviewed Pi opened the file of the incident at that time, what was written behind it was "In the end, he and this beast came to the end". Obviously, they adopted the first story that was not so cruel and cruel. Then Pi asked the visiting reporter, which of these two stories do you believe? The reporter said that there was a tiger (the first one). Pi A: So you follow God.

At this point in the story, I believe many viewers have realized that the four people in this story correspond to the four animals in the first story. At this moment, the director worried that the audience couldn't figure out its connection, and asked reporters who interviewed Pi to ask questions one by one: sailors are zebras, cooks are hyenas, orangutans are mothers, and Pi himself is a tiger. Maybe you can't accept the second cruel story, but the director has hinted at us several times in the process of telling the first story, and the second story really happened: 1, the ship was caught in a storm, and after Pi jumped into the lifeboat, China's crew shouted "Zebra! Zebra! " Later, the zebra jumped into the lifeboat, which suggested the role of the China crew. 2. When Mama Pi wanted to change vegetarian dishes, the cook behaved extremely badly and joked, just in line with the vicious nature of hyenas. 3. The orangutan found the lifeboat after drifting for a long time, and boarded the lifeboat with the help of Pi. Only the orangutan boarded the lifeboat with the help of Pi. After the orangutan was bitten by the hyena, the tiger suddenly appeared to fight back against the hyena. This is consistent with the order of appearance in the second story. After Pi's mother was killed by the cook, Pi finally could not bear to kill the cook.

From this perspective, we know that the first story is a metaphor for reality, which includes two layers: one is a metaphor for real events, and the other is a metaphor for thinking about human nature through one's own feelings. This second layer is the core of the film, and it is also the core that the director and protagonist want to express.

Let's start with the name PI. It represents an irrational number with infinite digits. When he wrote down the π values of three blackboards in the last math class, his classmates and teachers cheered. Each additional number represents an achievement and a symbol of the progress of human civilization. As his father said, the achievements of science and technology in these hundreds of years are equivalent to believing in the achievements of human civilization for thousands of years. On the basis of this achievement, it alludes to the endless desire of human beings, just like the endless value of π. The corresponding metaphor here is the myth that Pi heard when he was a child. God opens his mouth, and it is the whole universe. This metaphor also appeared when he saw whales eating jellyfish, tigers' mouths, fish cannibalizing each other, and maw.

When Pi was young, he believed in many religions, including Hinduism (family background), Christianity (betting with his brother to go to church to drink holy water so as to talk to the priest) and Islam (infected by Islamic chanting). He believes that these religions are compatible, and he thinks that he is close to God and understands God. In fact, the protagonist Pi is a symbol of all mankind. No matter what kind of faith and religion, the author and director want to arouse the reflection of all mankind on faith here. The metaphor here is: 1. When eating on the boat, my mother changed vegetarian dishes with the chef because she was a vegetarian. The cook pointed to sausages and gravy and said, I used to be a vegetarian, and I used to be a vegetarian. Then he aroused his father's dissatisfaction and risked a big fight with him. At the dinner table, a sailor from China came to comfort the family and explained: I believe in Buddhism, but I also eat this gravy. Because on the boat, gravy is not meat, but seasoning. In the case of extreme hunger, Pi fought to the death for a big fish, completely ignoring his previous vegetarian creed. 4. After Pi found the island, he was so hungry that he left the soil on the ground to look for the roots of plants and ate it contentedly. After the tiger went to the island, he saw a lot of foxes and ferrets, but then he ate them fiercely. Strangely, the other foxes and ferrets did not escape, but stood straight. This scene is similar to how Pi eats plants.

Perhaps this is an ironic hint to vegetarians and vegetarians. Everything is created by the creator, animals and plants are creatures, and there is no essential difference, so tigers eat foxes and ferrets just like foxes and ferrets. However, this vegetarianism (or religious belief) is based on relatively rich material conditions. If people are short of material and do not have enough to eat, they will put down their bondage, just as Buddhists will eat gravy on a boat, and skins will not hesitate to fight with tigers to eat fish.

The metaphor associated with the endless desire of human beings implies that human beings blindly believe, but at the same time they are doing something contrary to divinity; With endless desires, I can't get rid of the beast in my heart. Just like at the dinner table, my father taught Pi this bridge: one can't believe in so many religions at the same time. If you believe everything, you don't believe anything. Then I told Pi that I hoped Pi would have his own rational thinking, even if it conflicted with Dad's letter, as long as it was rational. Perhaps the audience may think that this film is criticizing religious beliefs and promoting absolute rationality. God didn't help Pi in times of crisis, just as Pi knelt down and screamed when the storm came, "You took everything from me. What else do you want? ! "Question God.

But personally, I think the film really conveys the opposite message to us. I still remember that after the roles of the two stories correspond, the tiger in the first story is the protagonist, so who is the skin in the story? What was passed on to me was a clear answer: the divinity in the heart, the invisible god that guides mankind in reality. It is not only independent of human beings, but also a part of human beings. Humans abandoned him many times, but accepted his guidance at the critical moment and crossed the other side from the wild animals. In the first story, the tiger represents the evil and animal side of Pi and even human beings. In the early days of drifting, the tiger was so fierce that he wouldn't move from pi. The tiger in the back was gradually domesticated because he was very hungry and benefited from the reward of Pi food. One of the most important bridges is that when the storm comes, Pi sees the holy light from the sky through the dark clouds and shouts miracles, trying to show it to the tiger, but the tiger is scared and crouches in the corner with fear.

The hero was rescued on the island, and there was endless food and clean fresh water during the day, which made him fall in love with the island and didn't want to leave, because the fear of the unknown and death made him want to live on the island forever. He even tied the red rope his girlfriend gave him to a tree to show his attachment. However, when night fell, he saw that the lake began to devour fish during the day, and the unfathomable lake was devouring his animals. At the same time, he saw lotus-like leaves, peeled off layer by layer, and saw human teeth. Day and night, give and take, eat and be eaten. This is the coast. This is human nature, and this is the cruelty of existence.

Have people lost faith in God? Did you abandon me? Do you remember the conversation between Pipi and the priest before the film? Pi asked the priest: God sent his son into this world to suffer for mankind. Is this love? The priest replied, all you need to know is that he loves us. The ending of the film also answers this question: the son of God leads the way to save people, gets rid of the misery of killing each other and gradually eliminates the animality. This is God's love.

Pi resolutely fled the island because he didn't want to live in the past and eat his own kind. He followed God's guidance and took a boat to the other side of the beast. But at this time, he still can't completely get rid of the animal side and continue to set off with the tiger. Finally, the tiger went into the jungle and disappeared. Pi cried miserably, because the animality of human beings helped human beings survive and survived at the most critical moment. When people pursue and approach divinity infinitely, the beast will leave unnoticed. He told the author that he saw another soul in the tiger's eyes. And his father told him that in the eyes of the tiger, you can only see yourself. There is nothing wrong with the Holy Father. Animal nature has no emotion and compassion, which is totally incompatible with divinity. Pi didn't believe it at first, but in the process of drifting, he gradually understood that it was impossible to integrate the two. "I thought it would turn back, but it just looked deep into the forest and disappeared forever. Maybe my father is right. He doesn't regard me as a friend at all, but I'm sure that what I see in his eyes is definitely not just the reflection projected by my own eyes. It just walked away without looking back, but in my heart, it will always accompany me. "

Let me be sure that the above inference is a true story: "Richard? 6? 1 Parker "was originally the name of the hero of the true story of cannibalism and shipwreck in history. 1884, the luteolin sank and four crew members were trapped in the south Atlantic. Besides the three crew members, there is also a man named Richard? 6? 1 Parker's 17 years old footman. In the vast sea drift, three adult crew members killed orphan Richard? 6? 1 Parker shared his meat, so he survived. This film is not a fantastic story with outrageous beauty, nor is it a twisted life choice entangled in religious beliefs and rational thinking. The original author and director euphemistically and explicitly told the audience this cruel fact in an almost crazy and implicit way, which is a confession of life, a torture of faith and a reflection on human nature.

Because this movie is really not called "The Fantasy Drifting of Pi", but

Finally, I admire the skill of Director Ang Lee, because no matter whether the audience understands or not, they will give a thumbs up and say, "Awesome!" .

"I have a tiger in my heart, smelling the roses. Look at my heart, dear friend, and you should tremble, because that is where you really are. " -sigrid? 6? 1 Sason