So I know that we review good books, and great recipes, but I have recently watched the movie Life of Pi. I thought it was wonderful. It may sound to some that I am being kind of gushy about it, but it is a movie that makes you think about what you believe.
It is narrated and told by Pi. He begins with how he got his name and how he learns lessons from his childhood. He is a very introspective child and is interested in many things around him. this part of the story takes place in India in the 1950's after France returned their territory to India. The stark differences between the area where the colonists live and where the native Hindu live is shown. Pi is raised in a poor family who own a zoo and choose to move to Canada when then Indian government begins to make changes that would effect them. The family and all the animals from the zoo board a Japanese freighter where they are caught in a storm. Pi is the only human survivor along with a Bengal tiger. As the two struggle to keep alive on the Pacific Ocean, they learn much about each other and Pi contemplates his place in world as he experiences many wonders at sea. He and the tiger are washed ashore in Mexico where he recovers and tells his story to investigators. He is not believed and asked to tell the truth. After he tells a story that they want to hear, they leave him with doubt that he even knew what happened to him.
There are several thoughts in the movie that made me think about my own faith and affirmed that we are all in the sight and care of God. It also made me think of the things that are in my life and made me grateful for what I have been blessed.
I will be getting the book from the library to read. I will review it when I get finished with it.
