2. The tiger's name is Richard Parker, but the original name was Thirsty, and it was mistakenly written as the name of the hunter who caught him, which means that the tiger should be called "thirsty" because he was caught while drinking water. of. When the male protagonist was young, he made a bet with his brother that he wanted to enter the church to steal holy water to drink, but was discovered early by the priest. When the priest came over, he was already holding a water glass: "You must be very thirsty." It implies that the protagonist is a tiger. The tiger was caught because of animal thirst, and the juvenile pie was caught by religion because of innocent thirst.
3. The protagonist was called "Pissing" since he was a child, so he shocked the school by memorizing pi with his own power, and he just changed his name to "Pi", and the pi without recurring decimals is the best contrast to the impermanence of life.
4. Pai's father said that the achievements of scientific and technological civilization for hundreds of years are worth the achievements of religious civilization for thousands of years.
5. Pi began to be curious about religion because of his curiosity about Christ, and joined Hinduism, Christianity and Islam respectively, and the people around Pi represented people with different views on religion - his mother was a devout believer, and Pi's father was a religious-respecting atheist, the brutal cooks who came later were anti-religious atheists, and the gravy-eating Buddhists represented cunning believers who lived by. On the other hand, Pai himself is a person who is doubtful about religion. Because of his doubts and interest, he joined three religions.
6. Pai's mother told Pai a fairy tale, in which there is a god with a universe in his mouth, which corresponds to survival and the food chain - God eats the universe, and the creatures in the universe eat each other. This in the back corresponds to the association between the tiger and Pi's reflection staring at the sea - various creatures eating each other. This is a satire on the taboo of religious fasting.
7. Pi was curious and wanted to feed the tiger with his own hands. After being discovered by his father, his father gave Pi a "cruelty" lesson with a sheep, but the sheep was tied outside the cage. The sheep were dragged into the cage, which corresponds to the memories of the adult school that are easy to remember, and it is easy to distinguish between imagination and reality.
8. Pai's first love, Ananta, is a dancer. Dance was created to communicate with the gods. When they broke up, Ananta tied a red rope to Pai's hand, and then Pai arrived on a human-shaped island, and left the red rope there, as if to explain - I have seen God (on your behalf) . Before Pi landed on the humanoid island, he had already entered a state of being ready to die at any time, so the red rope may also mean that Pi left his past self there after rebirth.
9. In the church, Pi questioned why God uses sacrifice to save the world? But the priest only said that you have to believe in God, without explaining too much. The example of Pai's father feeding tigers with sheep shows Pai the cruelty of the world. Here and the following plots can be understood in this way - God did not directly interfere with the world with too much divine power, but sacrificed himself to set an example for the world to imitate. Only by imitating God and observing all kinds of precepts, you are not a beast, you It's a cultured person. So if Pai's bestiality is a tiger, then he did tame his own bestiality later.
Before the disaster, Pai did not know his animal nature at all, and he also questioned religion. It can also be said that he only knew civilization but did not know animal nature. When his animal nature appeared, he finally defeated the animal nature with human nature.
10. After the shipwreck, the animals and characters in the two shipwreck stories correspond to each other, which has been explained in the play.
11. After the ship was wrecked, the orangutan came to the ship with two floating bananas, which corresponds to the Japanese doubts at the end of the story that "bananas cannot float".
12. In the second shipwreck story, Pi killed the cook in anger because his mother was killed by the cook. This corresponds to the appearance of the tiger-appearing suddenly, completely unaware that it was on the ship.
13. At the beginning, Pi has always separated human nature from animal nature. The tiger was on the boat, and he hid on the small raft. This shows that Pi's inner unease after killing the cook represents that he is trying his best to break free from the boat full of the past. Break free from ugly and bloody reality.
14. The boarding and taming of tigers sent later are the fusion and balance of human nature and animal nature. In the story, Pi was playing in the water at night, disturbed the giant whale, and sank the food. Without the food, he would die, so he decided to get on the boat. It is foolish to be intoxicated with religion and ignore human instinct. Face the reality. At the same time maintain self-discipline, in order to survive, either coexist with animal nature, or die extremely.
15. The scene of flying fish can be described as a metaphor for the fusion and transition of human nature and animal nature, and it is also a representative of the compromise between the good pie and the beast pie, and the key things are food and rules. Like wild animals, if you can eat what you can eat, you can't starve to death if you don't have to eat. There must be a system, so even if the boat is full of fish, Pi will wave a long stick and tell the tiger - I will eat the big one.
16. Pi has been writing voyage records on the boat. Just when the notepad was rolled up into the sky, the sky seemed to be about to drop a miracle, and a gorgeous thunderstorm came. This correspondence seems to be said by God - let me see what you wrote. Look, or, I see everything you do.
17. In a miraculous thunderstorm, Pi might be starving and fainted, and felt very excited to see the holy light, although the storm was stormy, but the tiger was very scared to hide, and even almost gave the impression that the tiger was caught in the waves, here It is self-evident that tigers are fictitious and relative. When the party is very excited about the gods, the tigers that represent the opposite animal nature are naturally afraid.
18. In the thunderstorm of miracles, Pi complained about why God let the thunder frighten the tiger, and Pi complained to God, "You took everything from me, what do you think of me?" So after the thunderstorm, Pi accepted death, and this also represents God can only pretend (the example mentioned above), and in the end, I still have to rely on myself. I feel that this storm is a graduation ceremony for Pi.
19. When he arrived on the humanoid island, Pi broke the plants at will and ate them, while the tigers also ate the meerkats at will. The interesting thing is that the meerkats did not resist at all. When people eat plants, plants do not resist, and plants are also life. .
20. The meerkat on the humanoid island is well aware of the rules of the island, so it survived, reproduced wildly, and was not aggressive. I feel that this represents the kind and ignorant side of human beings, and also represents the past pie. ——When there is no crisis, as long as you understand the rules stupidly, you can still live well, but when the tiger comes and gets eaten, you don’t know what happened.
21. The humanoid island is in the shape of a human, with fresh water and food during the day, and strong acid at night to eat people. I feel that this is not a metaphor - it seems that the metaphor is the repetition of the human heart, but I think it is more like a metaphor for true religion, Today's religions appear to be heaven on the surface, but in fact they are all about cheating money and eating people, and the foolish meerkats turn a blind eye when they do evil and go to sleep.
22. When Pai was in his first love, Ananta, he casually asked Ananta why he wanted to do a lotus and forest dance. In the forest of the humanoid island, Pai saw a lotus-shaped plant, and in the center of the flower was a human Teeth - After a circle, the dance posture was finally explained. Plants also eat people sometimes, the food chain is like this, the law of the world is like this.
23. If the sea is an extreme animal nature, then the humanoid island is the core of extreme religion (most of today's religions rely on a little sweetness to deceive countless ignorant meerkats), and neither the pie nor the tiger likes it here. First of all, the tiger has already Being tamed, it can be said that they have assimilated and become one with the pie, so they do not want to stay in extreme religious lies, they would rather stay in the relatively pure but cruel nature, and their purpose is to leave the sea and return to the civilized world.
24. The departure of the tiger at the end of the film, the departure of the first love in front, and the departure of his parents during the shipwreck, Pi didn't say goodbye well. These three points correspond to each other. - Don't be ignorant, cherish it.
25. In the end, the departure of the tiger made Pi very sad, symbolizing the contradiction and fetters between growth and the past.
26. The wives and children of the Last Adults seem to have names like dead relatives.
27. There are also many lines that correspond to each other, which belong to the whole play and the topic. Because there are not many lines in this film, it is very clear without writing them out.
The above is written from memory and will be added after the Blu-ray is released.
All in all, I feel the same way about this film.
And there is still one of the biggest unsolved mysteries in the film, why "believe in the first story is to follow God"?
The author’s understanding is that this film projects the entire world into it. Many people believe in God for various reasons, most of them wanting something, while many people don’t believe in God for various reasons, mostly because they have income, but when When you truly understand what religion means to people, you truly understand the power of God.
God is your example, you have to be yourself.
Extremely animalistic and selfish is not good.
Extreme ignorance and blind obedience will only engage in those religious deeds.
You have to be true to yourself first and face yourself honestly, and you are the one who is different from everything in the world - yourself (the god).
So, on the surface, this film makes you wonder, "Why does the first story make people believe in God?", while ignoring the second story, disgusting the second story, feeling that the first story is a beautiful lie, and the second story is a beautiful lie. Stories are cruel reality.
But the most important thing is - "Which story do you like (believe)?" This question was raised by the adult faction.
Adult Pie has been with both stories, and he doesn't say which one he prefers, otherwise the other wouldn't have been told.
That is to say, this is actually a set - the first story is like the humanoid island, a beautiful lie, and the second story is like cruel nature, where the strong eat the weak. That's right, the reporter at the end of the credits chose to like the first story, and then the adult pie said, "That means you're following God." This is indeed a correct answer.
But if the reporter chooses the second story, then the correct answer is naturally - "This shows that you are not following God."
The important thing is that everyone will subconsciously feel that the choice of following God is a good choice, or even the "correct answer", and the person who chooses the second story is dead. In fact, there is no correct answer to the question of pie. It is just a choice.
More importantly, Pi didn't tell you who he himself followed, nor did he recommend which one you should choose, because he has sublimated into his own god and amused you. Many people’s first instinct after watching the movie is that the first story is about Party’s self-hypnosis. In fact, the author feels that Pie is very sober, but he feels that the answers he knows can’t be described in words but can only be understood, so I changed it to two stories at the same time. Tell everyone who comes for a story. If he just wanted to hypnotize himself, there would be no second story at all and would be permanently hidden.
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