Art at it's purest form

Rating: 10/10 (6 January 2013)

Incredible !!!! I have never been to a movie that left me stunned at the end like Ang Lee's Life of Pi. I looked around and everybody in the theater was sitting in there seats, momentarily stunned, absorbing the wonder of the movie that we all just experienced, and when the Credits displayed on the screen the movie and Ang Lee received a warm applause, a scene I've never seen before. Everyone watched this movie thinks he simply understood it. they think the story is so simple that a young boy lost his mom and dad and his brothers and everyone who knows and everything he has. Then he continues on his journey alone with a TIGER in the middle of the ocean 227 days until he survives. REALLY? The story is more sophisticated than that ( I'll explain later..) The movie itself so outstanding, from the first minute to the end, its very entertaining, exhilarating, and heart-touching. The story-telling was great, the visual effects were perfect, the acting and directing was the best I've ever seen, Ang is really GENIUS, the way he simplifies the story (book) without loosing it's basic ideas was really a great film-making. the 3D was perfect (Watch only in 3D!!) Back to the story.. (I'll try not to spoil) - the scene that left me stunned is right at the end, when Pi Patel told the Japanese guys the other story, that scene helped me realize that there is something hidden in this movie.. something far more greater than that. After research i found that all the movie and the story is about symbolism, it's all about metaphors. these symbols sometimes brings historical stories like the name of the tiger Richard Parker, and sometimes even mathematically the story connects as well like the name of Pi (22/7 = 3.14) .. So who is Richard Parker?? who is the Orangutan? who is the Zebra ? What was the idea of the island ??!! why Richard Parker didn't look at Pi when they survived?? and many more symbols!!.. But more important than that was the faith, hope and other spiritual symbols. I won't go further in that to not spoil the movie! but when you watch the movie make sure to read about the hidden ideas to understand what Yann Martel- the writer of the novel- wanted to tell from this CLEVER story. That's why the novel Life of Pi won the Man Booker prize and that what makes it really a masterpiece and art at it's purest form.
so in summary, I want to thank Yann Martel for the awesome novel and of course i want to thank Ang Lee for such a magnificent movie, waiting more creativity from you!
If you haven't watch this movie yet, RUN to watch it in 3D before its gone and experience this journey on your own. because it's simply a MUST WATCH FILM!!.