there are two reasons why i love life of pie
the first is that it is a visual masterpiece
and the second is that for me personally it should not have worked i should not
have liked this and when i finished watching it i
immediately wanted to watch it again so this film is directed by angli
written by david mcgee based on the novel by jan martel i haven't read the
novel i don't know if i want to read the novel
because as i said the real reason i like this film is
mostly because of the visual beauty of it i just love
watching it but maybe one day i will give the film the the book a read and
see how it compares certainly if you've read it let me know
what you think um and maybe i'll give it a read
if you haven't seen this film it was released in 2012 which
seems really crazy now and the description from
imdb which i think is pretty accurate is as follows
a young man who survives a disaster at sea is hurtled into an epic journey of
adventure and discovery while cast away he forms an unexpected
connection with another survivor a fearsome bengal tiger
and that just sounds bonkers and in a way it is and i'm sure there will be a
lot of things about this that are inaccurate
would a human survive with the tiger i mean he has ways of appeasing the tiger
but would it work in real life um maybe i don't believe this is based on
truth at all it's uh categorized as an
adventure drama fantasy film i think fantasies may be a stretch but
it really is a phenomenal story so pi is our protagonist
how he got his name is a story in itself and that was such a fun
funny light-hearted way of starting this story with the description of his name
and then we see him on the boat with his parents and everything
everything seems fine but you know as a viewer
nothing will remain fine and then this disaster happens
and he films himself on this little rickety
getaway and then the next thing he knows he's actually there with his bengal
tiger and the tiger is so beautiful
and so kissable and i love big cats i really adore big cats
and the whole journey is them you know getting getting back to shore
but they're in the middle of nowhere so it takes a very long time
and how do they survive it and the different troubles that they they face
on the way and i will say the way i've described it
makes it sound like a pirate film where it's just going to be storms and
pirates and bad weather but there are other things
um that make it very different to that kind
of film as i said in the beginning one of the
reasons why i really liked this is because i didn't think i would and
the reason why i didn't like it i didn't think i'd like it sorry is that
i don't like journey stories i don't like road trip
stories i don't like stories that are set
primarily in one location for the most part obviously there are exceptions
and this one is set pretty much in a tiny boat in the middle of nowhere
and i thought well how how is that going to keep me engaged how will i
not get bored in this two-hour long film and the reason i didn't get bored is
because of the beautiful storytelling the pacing is so good it feeds us
tidbits of trouble at the right times there's heartwarming
moments there are emotional moments the narrative style is really effective
and as i said the visual quality of this film is out
of this world i did not see this in the cinema i wish
i did i really wish i did because
it just would have looked so spectacular and that tiger would have looked so
beautiful on the big screen and i know there's more to the title
than its visual appearance but i do very much uh
love big cats honestly you will you have to expect the unexpected with this film
because it is absolutely nothing like what i would have thought
it's not all the things i thought would be wrong with it did not happen
i didn't know what i'd like about it and it turns out i love pretty much all of
it it has a 7.9 out of 10 rating on
imdb which i think is very fair if i were to give it a star rating i'd
probably go four out of five maybe like 4.2 out of 5 or something
i i truly loved it if you haven't seen it definitely please do
it's a masterpiece i believe it's a pg it's suitable for pretty much everybody
and i think it's the kind of film that everybody will enjoy you don't have to
like adventure stories or dramas or
stories with animals it's just it's one for everybody
and i can only try and encourage you to watch it but if you haven't seen it
please do and please of course do let me know what you think personally
i i was very much blown away by life of
pie