Life of Pi
Directed by Ang Lee
Starring Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan
Rating: A
This movie is not quite what I was expecting, but in a good way. Before seeing the movie I feared it might be dull. After all how much excitement and dialog can come from a boy who is trapped on a rescue boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? The story was set up nicely, as we learn the boy is taught to fear the tiger. His family is forced to move from India to Canada on a cargo ship with the animals from his father's zoo. By the time the boat was shipwrecked I was already hooked on the movie. The boy talks to the animals some, but mostly we hear the words he writes into his journal and what he reads from the survival handbook. The director did an excellent job capturing the beauty of the scenes from beginning to end from the zoo animals at home, to the storms, to the water at sunset. In the end we find out there is a double meaning to the shipwrecked story and that is the part of the movie that has stuck with me. I actually can't get it out of my mind. To say this movie exceeded my expectations is an understatement.
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