Life of Pi Review

With its Booker-winning fictional reputation and origins in Aesopian fantasy, Life of Pi provides a comforting link between all this technical whiz-bangery and the type of traditional Hollywood storytelling that provided us The Wizard of Oz or The Jungle Book. A poll for Ang Lee's movie is thus more than just a vote for Ang Lee; it is a poll for all those Pixar films that never quite created best image, or all those Andy Serkis activities that never discovered a nomination. Now, all the technological innovation has at its returning a Big Theme. This movie is based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centring an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper’s son. Residents in Pondicherry, India, the family members choose to shift to Canada, hitching a drive on a large freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi discovers himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orang-utan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger known as Rich Parker, all battling for survivalThe sheer number of world religions given a shout-out in the film – Hindu, Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist – is enough to send Donald Trump's comb-over scampering up the nearest tree trunk, looking for cover. The movie requires a while to get going, like someone roused from their day relaxation, with plenty of blossoms and candle lights and individuals dressed in please, set joy indicating enlightenment, or as if they had been hit around the head with a brass pot. Conceived from the start as the director's first 3D venture, 'Pi' is among the rare ones that integrate the expensive process instead of simply showing off or scaring. Appear for the visible acrobatics, but do remain for first-time acting professional Sharma. For someone who has never acted in a movie before, the 17-year-old delivers a moving performance that manages to stand out in a literal sea of bombastic spectacle. Also impressive is the miraculous performance by the digitally rendered Bengal tiger who dominates the screen with both a fearsome and almost human energy - here is where the technical accomplishments of the film shine most brilliantly. The second act shifts the film from a lazy and comfortable list of introductions to a exciting fantasia of pure cinema, wherein Lee paints an oft-wordless picture of nature's harshness and grace, the perfect arena for Pi to have a Christ-like coming of age. In visual terms, what Lee simply does with marine life is staggering, pinning Pi and Richard in the path of a massive, migrating school of fish, and lighting up the evening sea with scads of bioluminescent jellyfish, whose peace is interrupted by the surface leap of a colossal blue whale. There's also a kaleidoscopic, Kubrickian dream sequence, with fauna and cosmos morphing into maternal visions. So far, no other 2012 film has so strongly outweighed its shortcomings with breath-taking spectacle, and as for Richard himself, the tiger may just be the most convincing CG animal ever animated for movie screens.Life of Pi is something of a beautiful ordeal, a film brimming with lush imagery as well as a sense of new-age enlightenment that constantly swings between misty (and perhaps even hollow) to deeply resonant. It's a film that that aspires to the very loftiest of heights and, by the end, doesn't quite succeed. Still, beneath everything, the heart of the story - the boy, the boat, and the tiger - manages to outshine the movie's desperate desire to be great. This movie has been released and bagged two National Tourism Awards by Tourism Ministry. It is also ranking no.1 among the top 10 films of 2012 and has also received 6 awards from Las Vegas film critics. It is also nominated for several U.S. film critics’ awards.