Yeah, it's really good, this movie is totally my thing.
The young pi drifted in the sea, and the starry sky, sea, and marine creatures he saw were all mysterious and amazing. This was a bit like another movie "The Adventure of Little Turtles", which showed the majesty of the sea through the ocean current travel of the little turtles. Magnificent and treacherous. But Ang Lee made the ocean more beautiful, especially outside the natural landscape, Ang Lee joined the illusion of a juvenile pi. When the young pi looked into the depths of the sea, he saw all kinds of galaxies, his mother, and the whole universe from his mother's open mouth - just like the fairy tale that his mother told him when he was a child: The mother of Krishna saw the universe in the mouth of Little Krishna.
The young pi likes this story, the world is so interesting in his eyes, so he believes in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism, because there are gods in these religions, and there are interesting stories. Why God sent Jesus to atone for the sins of mankind, the childhood pi can't understand, but he likes these strange stories. About redemption, about revenge, they are all human, and everything has feelings. He believes that through the eyes of the tiger, he can see the heart of the tiger, he believes that he can communicate with the tiger, and he believes that they can become friends, so the childhood pi came to close the tiger. house. He called the tiger out, and through the iron bars, he looked into the tiger's eyes, and the tiger looked at him, and approached step by step. Long closeup of tiger eyes. At that time, I was thinking, is this movie about the great friendship between this human tiger and the protagonist? Movies like "The Tale of Hachiko"? This is a bit of a cliché, isn't it? Pi's father appeared, and he pulled Pi away from the iron gate in time. In order to suppress Pi's overly romantic and rich soul, his father made a cruel experiment for him. He had a sheep tied outside the iron gate. After the sound of roaring and biting, the camera switched to the tiger dragging the remnant of the sheep slowly back. The shock of this scene to pi is equivalent to the destruction of a world. A world with floating gods and all beings collapsed, and he suddenly returned to the real world, which was dull and boring. The courses he studied, mathematics and physics, suddenly became boring. Mathematics and physics are the foundations of modern science and symbolize the world of materialism. Pi's father said at the dinner table that the development of human beings in the past 100 years has far surpassed the ancient civilization of thousands of years. This can be understood as the modern material rational civilization defeated the ancient spiritual civilization. I understand the blow to the teenage pi and see it as the theme of this movie. That is: pi's life is tangled between the spiritual world and the real world. - not religious beliefs. Why doesn't this kind of entanglement happen to each of us?
Zheng Yuanjie wrote a fairy tale about a tiger and a boy. The tiger in the zoo is visited all day long, and it is extremely lonely. One day, a boy fell into Tiger Mountain. The boy read the tiger's loneliness and pain with his pure heart. They communicated and understood each other. However, the people, the people outside Hushan, they didn't understand at all, they were anxious and worried, thinking that the tiger was going to eat the boy, and in the end, they succeeded in rescuing the boy. They cheered for the successful rescue. Only the boy and the tiger were saddened. This is a very sensational fairy tale. I don’t remember whether the tiger was killed by humans later. I was in tears when I watched it, and felt that humans were really stupid.
This fairy tale is the opposite of the story of the boy pi and the tiger. The juvenile pi also starts out just like the boy in the fairy tale. However, life is not a fairy tale, tigers do eat people. Pi's father taught him a lot of survival rules, he said, you can't have hallucinations. The juvenile pi relies on the modern scientific knowledge he has mastered to deal with the tiger on the sea and domesticate it; obtain water and food on the sea. This is the real part of life. But juvenile pi's life is not the only part of reality. Ang Lee said in an exclusive interview: Look at me, a very peaceful and gentle person, why is the film I made so risky? A lot of the movies I do have absolutely nothing to do with my life, women, Hulk, and this. No matter for pi or Ang Lee, reality is only a small part of their world. Behind the real world, there is a larger, wilder and more beautiful world. The universe in the mouth of the little black day in Indian mythology is a storm but also has life, that is the wrath of the gods, the majesty of the gods. Ah, how I liked the juvenile pi, when their ship met a storm at sea, he was so happy and ran to the bow, laughing and shouting to the tumbling sky, even though the ship was already tossing in the middle of the big waves, and he Fall and fall. Facing the rolling sky and the thick black and rolling sea water, of course he was afraid, but he was able to release the hottest emotion in his heart. Another scene appeared when Pi and the tiger's little wooden boat encountered a storm again, and the dazzling white lightning was tearing the sky like a whip. Pi was excited again. In the desperately shaking boat, he wanted to stand up and talk to God, To vent all his loneliness, anger, and despair, he shouted: "I lost my family, I lost everything, I surrender, what more do you want?" He was confronting and challenging God. These two scenes in the storm are really heart-pounding and swaying.
The young pi was finally saved, and he told visiting reporters about his fantasy drifting. At the end of the film he tells us another version of the story, the same shipwreck, not him and the hyenas, zebras, orangutans and tigers who escaped on the boat, but the cook, a sailor with a broken leg, Pi and his Mother. The cook kills and eats the sailor, then kills the mother, and finally pi can't bear to kill the cook as well. This is a story of cannibalism and cannibalism, in which pi shed tears.
He asked the reporter, which story do you like? The reporter thought about it and said, the one with the tiger. The wonderful thing about this movie is the twist at the end, which suddenly brings us to the choice between spirituality and reality. Perhaps, the truth of the matter is that there are no tigers at all, and some are just cannibalism by humans in extreme environments. But which story do you like? Of course, the one with fantasy drifting. So you believe in God. Pi said.
Although our lives have both physical and spiritual dimensions, they are not two parallel worlds that live in harmony with each other. They will become entangled and cause fierce battles. Sometimes no one can beat anyone. In the exclusive interview, Ang Lee said very interestingly: Like a young pi, I have a yearning for religion, but I have a tiger in my heart, and I can't handle it. The host asked him: What is this tiger to you? He said, can't speak. ——Looking at Hokage before, Naruto had a nine-tailed fox living in his body, and when he couldn't control it, it would devour him. I thought, I also have a nine-tailed fox inside me. In fact, aren't tigers and nine-tailed foxes the same thing? Not only can't speak, but also can't speak. If you insist, it is desire, madness, ambition, the urge to destroy everything, and the total denial of the real world. So when the host asked Ang Lee: Has the Bengal tiger in your heart left now? Ang Lee said: If you want to leave, it is best not to even think about it. Ahhh~ Ang Lee, how can you say such a thing? ! How is it like what I thought! !
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