The meaning of the ending
Let's first directly interpret the meaning of the ending, Ang Lee also said that this is the most important part of the movie. An important part, he tried to shoot a variety of endings, using different editing and narrative methods, and only determined the existing version three days before the opening of the New York Film Festival. The former is dreamy and magical, and the latter is cruel and realistic. As audiences and listeners, we certainly prefer the former. Once this happens, we will naturally become believers in God; but when we ponder after the film, we may lean more towards the realistic version. And if you have to mention the unbelievable level, I personally feel that the latter is even more incredible.
The above is a superficial understanding, in fact, we should understand the two stories together. The connection between the two stories is that the orangutan represents the mother, the zebra represents the sailor, the hyena represents the cook, and the tiger represents himself. In desperation, you are your own God, and believing in God is actually believing in yourself. I think this is the ending that Li An wants.
Pai to Tiger = Ang Lee to Pai
The relationship between Pai and Tiger is interdependent, Pai needs to rely on the fear that the tiger brings to him as the driving force of life, and at the same time in the long drifting days, he even regards Richard Parker as a One's own "friend", because the power of loneliness is enough to make people fall into despair in life. In the same way, the tiger needs pie as its life-saving straw, it needs to feed itself, and it is pie that rescues Parker from the sea when he is dying. Why Richard Parker didn't look back at the end, maybe he also knew that "life is a process of letting go, but it's sad that we don't know how to say goodbye".
Ang Lee joked that this time it was the most difficult to shoot. The three elements of "children, water, and animals" were difficult to overcome. And the rookie actor Sura who plays the role of Pai has no acting skills. As the center of the center, he shoulders a considerable responsibility. Therefore, Ang Lee is effectively "taming" Pi, teaching him how to act, just as Pi tames a tiger. However, as Ang Lee, he faced pressure from employers and research on new technologies. He also fell into infinite depression and did not know how to continue filming. But when he saw Pai walk into the set alone every day, set up props alone, and repeat the performance again and again, from rapid weight gain to weight loss, Ang Lee would gain confidence, because he knew that he had an explanation for Pai. In the tidbits, Ang Lee personally plays the tiger and the party scene. Like I said, the tiger is the other self of Pai. The same Ang Lee has also become a spiritual one with
Pai. Ang Lee, the fan's belief
sect has three religions . Faith, in fact, faith is a choice, if you believe it, you have it, if you don't believe it, you don't have it. In the movie where the storm hits, Pai yells "God, you took everything from me, what else do you want?" Then Pai goes to a deserted island, and for a certain period of time, this belief is the reason for his survival . As for Ang Lee, who is a director, he regards movies as his belief, which is why he is willing to spend a year lobbying Fox to invest in it, and willing to spend four years to settle and visualize this novel into a movie. We believe in the power of storytelling. And this is the belief that Ang Lee gives to our fans, the belief in "storytelling". We don't watch a movie just to see a story, we immerse it formally because we believe the story the movie tells. Like at the end of the story, Pi tells two stories, and we are all willing to believe these stories, and this is the belief of Ang Lee's original intention of "storytelling".
Ang Lee chose 3D this time. Anyone who has seen the film knows how beautiful the picture is. It is breathtakingly beautiful and breathtaking. It can only be said that this is the best 3D movie ever made, no one. (I haven't watched "Avatar")
What we can do in the movie hall is to wow again and again, hold our breath again and again, and quietly feel the double shock of the visual and spiritual that the film brings to us.
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