One of the very best films of the XXI century

Rating: 9/10 (1 December 2013)

Life of Pi is really one of the best films from this century, and is steps ahead of 'Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon', another great film, and also steps ahead of the 'Brokeback Mountain', the infamous but excellent drama about two cowboys lovers.
The existential conflicts are always an interesting subject to put in film, and maybe this is why Life of Pi has the best character development that i've seen in a long while. The dialogs and thoughts of Pi about the religions, disbelieves and faith are so interesting and honest that this alone made me fascinated with this film. You can understand 'Pi', because his thoughts are relatable to anyone, or almost anyone, i suppose. Asking for the 'why' of life and if God exists or not is something inevitable for the great majority of people in the world. But unfortunately, it starts to lose this honest essence when Pi, born as a follower of the Hinduism, changes his religion for the Christianism. This was like a punch in the face, because really... It becomes clearly, at least for me, that this film was doing a Christianism propaganda. It becomes blatantly obvious, i must say. I don't believe in these myths, but i can realize how offensive this film may be for people from other religions, specifically for the followers of Hinduism.
But i loved the allegory of Pi taking care of the Tiger and what it represented. He needed the tiger in order to survive. The Tiger represented 'the animal willing for his life', using his basic instincts to survive. As we can see in the end of the film, The Tiger was probably Pi himself, what explains absolutely everything. This is why
in the end there is no importance of which story was the true one, because in the end, both were true. They are just told in different ways..
The cinematography is fantastic. One of the best that i've seen, top 5 for sure. It's breath taking, incredible and amazing, and it also is a big 'shut up' for the people which defends that CGI is taking the magic of cinema away. Life of Pi is the proof of why CGI can be used to turn the films even more powerful and fantastic than the traditional films which uses the 'practical effects' . The animals in the boat are extremely real.
A must watch film, one of the very best of 2012. 9.5/10