... ship he is traveling on with his family sinks in a storm. Pi is the only one to survive the wreck along with multiple animals, most notably a Bengal tiger, who he shares the lifeboat with the entire time. Pi tells a story with unbelievable events and visuals. At the end of the film, Pi is interviewed ... Pi, his mother, a sailor, and the cook. Ultimately, the two reporters choose to believe Pi's animal story. Did Pi survive at sea with a Bengal tiger and other animals from his zoo? - Or did Pi create the animal story in his mind to escape the reality? This is what I will be discussing ....

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Yann Martel's award-winning novel, "Life of Pi," is a story about a 16-year-old Indian boy who survives a shipwreck and spends months on a lifeboat with an adult Bengal tiger named "Richard Parker." Piscine Molitor Patel is a strange boy. His father is a zookeeper, and he has a very good understanding of animal behavior, loves stories, and practices not just Hinduism, but ... run into a very bad storm and the ship sinks along with Pi's family. Pi ends up on a lifeboat with a hyena, an orangutan named Orange Juice, a wounded zebra, and a fully-grown Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. Richard ...

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... left to doubt their own beliefs by the end of the movie. God is presented to us through Pi's own religious beliefs and in his unbelievable journey with an adult Bengal tiger, and although "Life of Pi" does not emphasize on any particular religion, it urges us to believe in something because faith can bring meaning to life. Director Ang Lee stated ... is orange and dream-like, showing God's magnificent presence. This all shows how Lee depicts religion in a positive light. The majority of the film is about Pi's experience with the tiger, and only a short section of the end is about the se...

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