This movie really proves that a movie climax can really make or break a story

Rating: 7/10 (29 November 2016)

This movie carries a very strong opinion at its climax which if you fundamentally disagree with then it unfortunately taints the entire beautiful movie.
The scene in question as I'm sure most of us would know by now is when our protagonist provides his second version of the story and emotionally reacts in such a way that it is likely to be the truth or that our protagonist has psychological issues.
Essentially it seems likely that he has fabricated the entire tiger story and proceeds to argue that if you had the chance to believe one or the other which would you prefer.
The people who have interacted with him in the film then decide the tiger story is better.
And he proceeds to say "so it is with God".
i.e. given two realities one which is grimmer and most likely the truth and one which is nicer, one believes in God because God provides a nicer way of being in the world.
I don't think you'll find many logic driven believers who would take the route that believe in God is simply a crux for dealing with existence.
Also to come back to the protagonist himself, to create two stories and without desiring to provide clarity on which is true really hurts his credibility in my eyes.
Thus I much prefer the original author's take which was to make it seem like an annoyance that the two Japanese investigators needed a more believable story and he simply provided one which seemed more realistic thus leaving us an impression that he was simply doing it to give them something they could use on their report.
Or at the very least it gives room for either interpretation to exist.