You know, this movie came on to Netflix a while ago. I didn't feel extraordinarily compelled to see it when it was in the theatre. Hell - backtrack: Michael owns the book and me? The voracious reader of books? Didn't read it.Yeah. So we watched it tonight.
Dear Yann Martel: thanks for your heavy handed, overtly religious attempt to help us to see God/Allah/Yahweh through an implausible and overwrought analogy rife with plot holes and outright stupidity.
At the onset of this movie, the journalist who is transcribing the main character's transcendent journey is told that his story teller will make him "see God".
So basically from there on in you gotta take shit with a grain of salt, am I right?
Anyways, after a zebra, orangutan, hyena and rat make their exit, and it's just Pi and the Tiger, where's the riveting and poetic and surely life changing moment?
Oh, but it's all a metaphor and Pi is the Tiger and we're supposed to suspend belief because Pi thinks the analogy of a boat of animals fighting for survival is more palatable than the truth.
Right.
Enter: religion.
Let's just make up shit and feed it to the people because they will believe ANYTHING over reality.
Just fuck off already.
When you start coaching reality in parables? You are sugar coating the truth.Religions are based on unproved myths, not fact. Why would anyone want to fashion their life based on this, or take it as "gospel".
The only sane part of this catastrophe of a misguided idiot who is attempting to guide us all into the arms of God, was when Pi's father at the dinner table cautioned him towards Reason whilst he embraced religion after religion.
I can't say enough to denounce this movie. If ever there were a showy CGI attempt to entice the weak-minded into complacency (or worse: into religion): this was it.
Wasn't my pick.
I wanted to watch "Your Sister's Sister". Whatev.
You know what? I'm just going to step it up a notch and say that this was the equivalent movie version of "Eat, Pray, Love" which I panned so many moons ago.
Yes. I just did that.
Look, if you want to watch a preachy piece with tons of animation, at least watch "Avatar": it was about the environment which is real and which is currently being destroyed at such a rate that we're going to leave a disaster for our ancestors.
Just sayin.
LOL I love it when you critique movies. I watched it, wasn't impressed, it really didn't hold my attention away from my knitting. My sister asked if she should watch it and I told her if she remembered that book Little Black Sambo then she didn't need to watch this movie. I think Little Black Sambo had more meaning than this movie. Now Avitar... even the hubby liked it and he hates everything.
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