Hmmm, having Jake and Heath portraying gay cowboys is not the only magic trick Ang Lee has up his sleeve. In the new allegoric search for God tale, Lee also sticks the same Pi (Suraj Sharma, great piece of acting) on a boat in the Middle of the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger and let's em fight it out for n hour and man is it mgical.
The 3D "Life Of Pi" is a stunningly beautiful movie about a young Indian boys search for God. After leaving his native India for Canada on a steamer, the ship is sunk in a storm and Pi's entire family drowns . Only Pi and the tiger survive.
Ang Lee uses this and a revised telling of the same tale as a metaphor for the decision as to what and how to believe in a God, and it isn't a terrible idea at all, With Bollywood superstar I. Khan and a cast of dozens in minor roles, Lee drenches us in a modern fairytale and not unlike The Magus, and for similar reasons, leaves us to decide what's real and what isn't.
Lots of terrific scenes, an early one in an Olympic size swimming pool is the absolute visual image of a recurring dream i had a s child, and another scene, with a whale jumping over the boat, is astonishing and beautiful. Mostly, the word is definitely NOT friendship, relationship between the boy and the tiger is the heart and the heart beats well. One more thing, try and see it in 3D, it is a real experience.
Mychael Danna is the Canadian composer responsible for the score, pleasant enough but i could have used some Ragas in there.
Grade: A