Mind blowing !

Rating: 10/10 (22 December 2012)

The most important thing of this film is it character. It is obvious because we are seeing for almost 2 hours just one character. So it is not only important to have a great character that appeals to the audience feelings, but to have an actor that portray this person the right way.
The entire weight of Life of Pi is balanced on newcomer Suraj Sharma's back. The true beauty of this film may be its cinematography, but considering how much of this movie focuses on a solitary human in a boat with a tiger, casting a weak actor in the role of Pi would have been as disastrous as flinging acetone on a painting. Life of Pi is substantial achievement in storytelling. The film covers a variety of topics: spirituality, mortality, maturity, death, and survival.
The idea of human identity is most strong in the end when he asks which story the writer believes. We are then questioned of whether we believe that he was stranded on a boat with a real Bengal tiger or if Richard Parker is the personification of himself and he spend his time on the lifeboat battling and coexisting with his own identity.