Great Inspirational Movie! (SPOILER ALERT)

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2012)

SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do not read if you have not watched the movie...continue at your own risk
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Never Have I watched a movie that inspire me so! For me it was such an inspiring movie conveying the strength of human potential as well as the importance of human identity. In the beginning we see his search for God and throughout the movie we see how everything is torn away from him in order to be able to understand God for the being that he is. It is throughout the whole movie that when everything is torn from his grasp can he understand God himself without the influence of others (ie. his parents, civilization and his first love). Only when left to starvation and the turbulence of storm can he start with a clean slate can he start over. The next we learn is the importance of human identity and the impact we leave behind. This can be seen when he encounters the floating island where he finds a tooth within the flower. He doesn't want to live an lonely existence and returns to the boat again to search for land. 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.