What’s the story about?
• The story involves the 227 days that its teenage hero spent drifting across the Pacific in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Something about Pi
Life of Pi
• Release time:2012 • Director: Ang Lee • Box office: about $600 million • Award:
nominated for three Golden Globe Awards
eleven nominations for the 85th Academy Awards
• In the first 3 days, the hyena killed and ate the gorilla and the zebra. And then the tiger killed the hyena.
• In the 7 months, he collected water, fish and shrimp, and used all the sea survival skills to feed the tiger, as well as to let himself down.
• When they finally reached the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker fled to the jungle, never to be seen again.
Some shots I can’t forget
• the rule of survival
• During this hard experience, Pi tried all he can to survive and to get on well with the tiger.
• Pi developed "alpha" qualities as he mustered the strength, will and skills that he needed to survive.
Pi: “Religion is a house with many rooms.” Writer: “But no room for doubt?” Pi: “Oh yes! On every floor.”
I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
There is a tiger in everyone’s heart.
I was flying in the sea, there was a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker inside me.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR LISTENING!
• born in India • believed in Christianity, Islam,
and Hinduism • the son of a zookeeper • had a special knowledge of
animal behavior and a fervent love of stories • 16 years old
If every unfolding we experience takes us further along in life, then, we are truly experiencing what life is offering.
Major themes
Life is a story about belief and courage.
• All life is interdependent, and we live and breathe via belief.
Major themes
We gain growth through adversity
• Some people have described the story as one of "personal growth through adversity."
• The family emigrated from India to North America.
• The ship sank. Pi’s family members all died.
• Pi fell on the lifeboat and survived, with a hyena, a gorilla, a wounded zebra, and a Bengal tiger.
• the deep mother love
• Reminiscence of family and home
• The story seems to stop here, but the truth is…
Two editions of story
• One was about the drift between the young man and the tiger.
• Life is a story... You can choose your story... A story with god is the better story.
• A recurring theme throughout the film seems to be believability.
• The other one was what the novelist concluded. Actually there were just Pi and his mother, along with a cook and a seaman on the boat. The cook killed and ate the seaman, then killed Pi’s mother, eventually Pi killed and ate the cook.
• The two stories have one thing in common: in the end only Pi survived.
The first story: metaphor（隐喻） of tity
All of life is an act of letting go, but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.
Major themes
Life is a travel of defeating animal desire.
• Live as a monster or die as a good man? Can something brutal and something spiritualist coexist with each other?
• To ruin one’s soul to prevent his/her animal desire. Animal desire and soul go to ruin together.
• Soul can defeat animal desire.
• But Pi seems like to choose that being a good guy in life whose heart is protected by animals.