Yesterday I went to watch 'Life of PI' at Grand Indonesia with Jessica, Michelle (The non-identical TWINS! Hahaha), Danella, Karen, and Celine.
I REEAALLYY wanted to watch either Hotel Transylvania, Wreck-it-Ralph, or Rise of Guardians. But They alr watched HT and wreck-it-Ralph, and the twins planned to watch Rise of Guardians this Saturday. I am SOOO disappointed for being unable to watch it. I alr have several plans to watch it w/ my friend (Crystal! hahaha) before, but it failed. TT.TT
I think I won't be able to watch ANY of those 3 films coz' I am going to US alr, so I can't watch during weekends (too busy taking care of stuffs), and I can't wait for the DVDs to be sold at mangga dua either. Plus, when I arrive in US, the film won't be played at the cinemas anymore.. TT.TT
Anw.. No use regretting now.. Hahaha..
So, I watch Life of PI yesterday, and I think the film is (SORRY!) boring....
It's not THAT good, and I feel like watching a version of Robinson Crusoe movie.. The only difference is that Robinson Crusoe tries to survive in an abandoned island, but PI (His name is 'Piscine', but he preferred to be called as 'PI', for his friends often made fun of his name and called him 'PISSING' instead of 'Piscine'.. Hahaha)
The only thing good about this film is the philosophical meaning behind it. Hence, I only liked the last 15 minutes of the movie. OH! The nature sceneries here is also EXCELLENT! I bet that my ex-religion teacher: Mr. Charles Schuster is gonna LOVE it! He's a a person with passion in arts, nature, and philosophy. PLUS, he love to watch movies. hahahaha. So now you could guess how much this film will fit him, right? Hahaha.. I imagined him saying 'Oh! It's so beautiful. You should see the movie!)
This is one of the reason I feel DEVASTATED (It's exaggerated.. Hahaha) for being unable to watch those movies-cuz' I don't enjoy this one.. Hahhaha
BUT, I think the meaning of the film is VERY good for humanity.. How we should believe and accept god when there's no scientific and solid proof that he even exists! or how we should accept different religions.
One quote of Piscine that really intrigues me is his last quote:
"'So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't
prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the
better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?'
Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?'
Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.'
Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.'
Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.'"
This is what
gradesaver.com said about the quot
e:
The Relativity of Truth
"The relativity of truth is not highlighted as a major theme in
Life of Pi
until the last part of the novel, when Pi retells the entire story to
make it more plausible to the officials who are questioning him. He
then asks the officials which story they liked better, since neither can
be proven and neither affects the information they are searching
for—how the ship sunk. This question implies that truth is not
absolute; the officials can choose to believe whichever story they
prefer, and that version
becomes truth. Pi argues to the
Japanese officials that there is invention in all “truths” and “facts,”
because everyone is observing everything from their own perspective.
There
is no absolute truth"
There's 2 other meanings to the quote too.. I discussed these meanings with my friend Danella and Celine yeaterday.. Hahaha
1. When Mr. Okamoto claims that the story with the animals is the better story, Pi said 'Thank you. And so it goes with god'. Pi have 2 stories: One with the animals, which seems UNBELIEVABLE, meeting carnivorous islands, the Meerkats, surviving at sea with a tiger and such. The other story, Pimakes it more 'believable' so that the Japanese would believe it (The relativity of truth, as described above). And so it goes with god.
God seems Unbelievable; we can't see him, touch him, nor we have the proof that he exists. But the Unbelievable may be the truth. So this is why the definition of truth is very much relative, and why we should believe in god when worldly evidence were not given. As Yann Martel, the author the novel said, “religion goes beyond the confines of the reasonable
2. Both stories have different characters. One with the Zebra, Orangutan, Hyena, and Tiger; the other with the cook, Pi, his mother, and the sailor. They have different characters, but both stories ended up the same: The zebra/sailor broke its/his leg and was eaten and killed by the Hyena/the cook, for example. And, in the end, Pi survived the tragedy in both stories.
Same goes with religion. Different religions have different gods (characters). Hinduism has MILLIONS of good, Buddhists have gods like the Buddha,-etc, and Christians have the Jesus Christ. Different religions have different characters, but in the end, the story will be the same. We'll all soon leave this worldly place called 'earth' and go to meet our creator-whom ever we believe our creator is. In this case, as a protestant, I belive it to be God. :)
Another interesting part of the movie is when Pi and Richard Parker are close to death, their boat drifts to
a floating island that's completely edible and covered with meerkats.
But at night, the island reverses its nature. Instead of feeding
visitors, it feeds
on them. Meerkats will flee at sun down, and even the fresh water turns into acid at night! Pi, however, says that it's manifestations as gifts from God. He says, God "gave me
rest … and a sign to continue the journey."
I read answers from
Yahoo answers regarding this,and someone said that the island manifests dead body, and the meerkats as maggots. When Pi was too hungry, he ate the dead body and the maggots (Rochard Parker ate it too..), but then his rationality returns when he found the tooth.
Personally, I don't really like the movie. Regardless, however, let's just focus on the meaning behind the story
but I like the true purpose and meaning behind the movies. Life of PI
had really encourage people to think beyond rationality. To even
question their believes and why they should/should not believe it.
I
feel much grateful I've given this life, and how I should appreciate
everything I have, after watching how Pi had lost literally everything,
but he survived, he still be grateful, and he still got guidance to get
his own happy ending in the end..
So.. That's the end of my movie review.. Hope you enjoy it! I'd give the movie 6 out of 10 (Actually I wanna give 5, but the philosophical meaning to it is quite good, so I raised the numbers.. hahaha).
Let's pray I will still be able to watch HT, Wreck-it-ralph, and Rise of guardians.. (I don't know how, but let's just cross our fingers, ok?? Hahaha)
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