Samantha Bray- Random Post 3

 Life of Pi

I recently watched the movie Life of Pi. The movie started out pretty slow, but the cinematography kept me interested and wanting to see what was going to happen next. The story is about a boy from India named Pi. His family ran a zoo in India, but decided to move to Canada along with all of the animals. While on the ship, there is a storm and the boat begins to flood and sink. Pi is the only survivor with a few of the animals. As the next few days pass, he realizes that he is stuck on the little lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. The two of them eventually figure out how to coexist on the tiny boat. They end up on the coast of Mexico. Along the way, they had many trials come up, such as another storm, the tiger falling out of the boat, a giant whale, sharks, and they even find a tiny island filled with meerkats. Through all of this, Pi continuously prays to his various gods that he worships. He was raised as Hindu, but then exposed himself to Christianity and Islam, so he affiliates himself with all three. I thought this was really interesting just because everyone is usually just one religion, but he went against the norm and chose 3. I think he believed that God was the same god for each religion, is just depended on how you looked at it. He believed that God kept him safe during his journey across the Pacific Ocean and provided the means he needed to survive. When Pi finally got rescued on the Mexican shore, no one believed his story. Because of this, he changed it to that he was with 3 other people, who all died, instead of the zebra, orangutan, hyena, and Bengal tiger. In his story, he was the tiger. The reason Pi is even telling this story in the movie is because a guy was sent to him because his parents told him that Pi could make him believe in God. This movie relates to the idea that you have to see it to believe it. While Pi believed in God before his journey, the things he experienced just confirmed his belief, but because no one else was there, no one believes that it actually happened. I think the moral of this story is that as long as you have a little faith, anything is possible.