The film was a global sensation, ushering in strong word-of-mouth and box office, the film is about a teenage pie who encountered a shipwreck, and all his family was killed. He and a Bengal tiger in a life-saving boat drifting for 227 days, during which they encountered a variety of difficulties, the relationship between the human and the tiger also from the sword to mutual temptation and then finally surprisingly side by side.
Many viewers fell into the film's fantastic and incomparable plot and images after watching the film for the first time, the beautiful scenes are alluring and visually shocking, full of a fantasy story, and too late to think about other things. And the real connotation of the film and many metaphorical details need to be watched several times to understand, and then watch to understand that this is a realistic and cruel thing, and can even be called a dark fairy tale.
After the storm, the boat sank, however, Pi and several animals miraculously survived. They were a zebra with a broken leg, a female gorilla in a banana boat, a cruel hyena and an adult Bengal tiger, Parker, and the hyena bit the zebra and the female gorilla respectively in the following days. At night, it is the corrosive water emitting acidity, and the fruit with adult teeth, which are exposed to the incredible ingredients, and finally drifting at sea for 227 days, Pi and Parker finally managed to reach the other side alive. However, it seems like a fairy tale, there is a dark version of the story: in fact, the zebra who broke his leg is Pi's brother, the hyena is Pi's father, the female gorilla is Pi's mother, and the tiger is Pi. After the shipwreck, with the passage of time and the lack of food, the father gradually lost his mind in hunger and brutally killed Pi's brother and then Pi's mother in a quarrel. And Pi also in anger, lost his mind, killed his father.
The human nature of Pi is interspersed with the divine and animal nature, which is the basis for Pi to survive with Parker and drift to the other side. Pi's last words to the novelist, "God is with you", are also a reminder to keep his divinity and humanity to survive in society. By telling this story, the film causes the audience to think more deeply about the nature of God, beasts and human nature, and the open ending of the film also leaves more room for the audience's imagination, you can believe in fairy tales or believe in darkness, sometimes the transformation of the nature of God and beast in a moment, it all depends on your inner thoughts.
