Life of Pi - watched.

Watched the movie the life of pi. Many aspects of the movie were simply outstanding-

The scene when the hyena attempts to attack Pi and the tiger pounces from underneath the canvas on to the hyena to kill it. And Pi expecting the very next minute the tiger would kill him cringed helplessly. You almost feel exactly how he felt at that moment...

The officials from the insurance company, when they heard the story they asked him to tell them a more believable story that won't make them look like fools. Pi narrated the story of a the 4 people who survived the story- the cook, mother, the japanese sailor and himself. And of how the cooks kills the sailor and mother and that he kills the cook and is the lone survivor of the wreck.
I liked to imagine the comparison with the animals and the tiger being the lone survivor. I wondered if Pi indirectly said that he was the God who kept the lone survivor alive, the tiger.

The fact that the story full of fantastic characters and adventures out at sea and the unbelievable island in the middle of the pacific was not something that the insurance people wanted to believe. They were looking for a more believable version of the story.
It gave me a thought that people have accepted the ordinary way of things so much that even imagining something different seems difficult to them.

The metaphor the island represents-
The island poses to be a comfort zone for pi, just like we have one in our lives. The act of pi sailing off the island rather than staying back says that we should abstain from staying within our comfort zone for too long.

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