Life of Pi is an american-chienese movie.The film is directed by Ang Lee. The movie based on same termed novel which Yann Martel released in 2001. Life of Pi is an adventure and a drama movie with 3D effects. In Finland the movie was published in 21st December 2012. In the United States it was already released at 28th September. The movie has Indian actors: Suraj Sharma, who plays the young version of Pi, and Irrfan Khan playing the old Pi.
Pi Patel and his family live in India. Father of the family is a zoo keeper and his has decided to sell the animals foward. Because they don’t have money they hitchhike in the same boat where the animals are. On their way to Canada the boat sinks and Pi find himself out in a boat with zeepra, hyena, orangutan and a tiger in the middle of the Pasific Ocean! This is where the adventure starts. Pi has to learn how to integrade with these animals especially with the tiger. Luckily Pi forms unexpected connection with the tiger and they both survive. The journey has a bit drama when Pi fight with the tiger to survive alive and when he starts to loose his hope for saving. And at the end of the movie it seems like nobody don’t believe his story of the tiger because his the only one who survived.
Special effects have a huge part in this movie. Whole movie is filmed in the sea but in the reality they weren’t there at all. It is all of the special effects. And also the tiger and Pi never be in the boat at the same time. Special effects are amazingly used. You don’t even know where they have used those. Of cource when the storms come you can see it’s not real but otherwise they have used the effects in a great way.
In my opinion it’s amazing to use Indian actors in an american movie. Actors speak english well and how they show their feelings is tangible. Suraj Sharma plays his role of a survivor very well when you take into account that the tiger weren’t even the boat so he has to imagine the tiger and play with it.
When I went to see the movie I didn’t even know what I was going to look at. It was the kind of movie that I won’t watch again. In my opinion it was oppressive but there were funny moment too. And 3D- classes didn’t eve bothered me although the movie took almost 3 hours. If you like adventure films and you don’t bothered the ’brutal’ side of them and you don’t scary easily and love ’happy’ endings you should go watch it!