Beautiful visual experience, poor content

Rating: 6/10 (5 January 2013)

First of all, I have to admit that this is a great movie to be seen for it's exquisite picture, realistic animation, great composition. But I rate it as mediocre because I was disappointed of it's content. Basically it's about a child who's searching for God so eagerly, that as an adult he identifies himself as a Hindu Muslim Christian who is occasionally teaching Kaballah...I did not read the book, but in the movie this religious mix is accentuated but so superficially treated that it was annoying for me not understanding that child's religious philosophy, despite the director's hint contained in the father's warning that having several religions means actually having none... The story of Jesus was also misfitted... Pi Patel, during the quest of his life, finds himself as human, as son of God, as a tiger, for us to later realize that all the story he describes was actually a mastermind allegory of the real situation, with the explanation that we like to believe the beautiful stories, not necessarily the real ones...Pitiful, pathetic and sad religious thinking