I wonder why they didn't check the boat to see if it had scratches from a tiger? Because ironically the animals are the most realistic, apart from a certain part it agrees with God's call.
Oooh.... wow. I watched this when I was a kid. I didn't understand it at first. Coming back now and I saw the human like body and the tooth of the island, I understood what it meant... damn.
I belive 3 things about this sceane 1 pi ate a human,2 this could be hallucination he had or 3 he could of been right yet giving the interviers skepticism it makes you think its fake
The island is shaped like a woman. He imagined all this because he suppressed the memories of resorting to cannibalism to survive- he ate his mother’s corpse. Richard Parker didn’t come out till Hari killed Orange Juice. So.... it was the animal in Pi that didn’t come out till the cook killed the sailor and his mother.
0:40 to 0:55 sends shivers down my spine. Idk why exactly, the breathing noise that also sounds like the wind starts it off. It’s those rare mystical moments where you feel connected with nature and the environment, which reminds you that there’s something more, that there is a presence of something higher accompanying you, a god.
The island is a metaphor of cannibalism, but also another metaphor of comfort "Some poor fella just like me must have found himself stranded on the island and like me it thought it may stay there forever" In some way we are that poor fella, happy with our comfort, it could also be addictions, not just drugs, but any other common habit that we refuse to let go because it makes us feel safe and protected, or just happy and ignorant, our body is the island, and the comfort are different things, what we do it affects the island, so the island will give us in return what we give to it, we feel happy when we give it drugs, then the island give us back illness and addiction, we feel happy when we digest junkfood and sugar, then the island will become diabetic or obese, we feed the island hate against everyone, and everyone will run away from the island, except us which are content being on the island filled with hate, we become addicted and refuse to leave, we believe that it will be like that forever, until we die alone or by overdose of many things, but that will never change until we become self aware of the harm that we do to us, even if that means just a little comfort, time to let go.
I have paused and read the report made by the Japanese. It seemed like he was drifting at sea for almost 8 months. The scene from the island seems like after he lost consciousness in the boat, his hunger got the best of him, and tried to eat the corpse. In the movie, the tiger only ate the meerkats, and according to other interpretations, he is the tiger, the corpse is the island, and the meerkats are maggots. The tiger only ate the meerkats, so he didnt ate the corpse only the maggots. Then the slept with the maggots and noticed a tooth. That's when he realized that if he stayed, he will die alone and forgotten. So with the last of his strength he sail again. Luckily he found a shore and was saved. The scene where the tiger looks at the jungle and didn't looked back at him to say goodbye is for him to not look back to his past and move forward to his new home. His resentment towards the tiger is his regrets that he himself didn't even got the chance to say goodbye to his family.
I just watched the movie. Hyena (cook), Zebra(sailor/happy buddhist), Orangutan(orange juice/mama). According to his "fake story", 4 people survived in the boat. However, the sailor broke his leg after he jumped to the boat, the cook didn't help the sailor and left him dead, then use his corpse as bait for the fish. The mother got angry at what the cook did and slapped him so hard. Maybe after a few months of no food. The cook tried to ate the remains of the sailor and thw mother got really mad. The cook now turned his attention and his mother told him to get to the raft. The cook killed his mom and possibly ate her. Then Pi killed the cook.
"But all that the island gave him by day, took away again by night" :)Samsara What all we leave behind is the clay for which we laboured. The journey of a seeker at a milestone.
my interpretation of the island it is nothing but things in this material world how much beautiful or pleasing it my look to you today but eventually it will drain you tomorrow so instead of running behind pleasures and luxury just enjoy how much you can handle and reset leave it and move on in your life
Some says that the mouse is his girlfriend. At one point the guy says he didn't remember or forgot to say goodbye to his girlfriend, impliyng he knew his girlfriend sneaked on board the ship. Then in a scene he threw the mouse to the tiger, which means he ate his girlfriend, hence he found the tooth inside a flower bulb that looks like a lotus flower, his girlfriend favourite flower. He also tie the red bracelet his girlfriend give him onto a tree branch at the island. But the island also maybe is his mother which he also ate, the meerkat is the maggot in his mother corpse, it has gone rotten so he have no choice to dump his mother overboard, hence the scene of him leaving the island.
I want to share my thoughts on the island I think the island represents the cook when Pi killed him. The algae is the cooks flesh. The ponds of fresh water are the cooks intestines and blood. The trees are the cooks bones. The meerkats are maggots that came by the hundred. And when Pi found the tooth in the fruit, it was really Pi realizing that he ate almost all of the cook till he was left with his teeth. When Pi found out that the island kills at night, is really when Pi started having terrible dreams about what he did that it started effecting his mental and physical state. When Pi left the island was when Pi moved the cooks remains of the boat. Those are my thoughts anyway
I am not sure about the book, but the actual meaning, the story gors with god. When he gaves up the god appears im the form of island. The sleep man shape is a represenation of lord vishnu. And he decided to stay on the island, the god showed him the tooth, so that he can continue his journey and not stuck in the island. The god was always with him throgh out his journey. This is a visual representation of god.
I think the author of the book was relating the two narrations of the events through different stories, to his earlier commentary on multiple narrations of God through different religions. There are many ways you could link these but i feel its far too ambiguous to make a conclusion for it
The big clue that this entire scenario wasn't real and is more like a metaphor is that this island has meerkats. A species native to Africa and this island is in the middle of the Pacific. He was suppressing his memories by creating false realities.
It's so interesting listening to different viewpoints of this clip of the movie. None of them are wrong. This movie was so well done.....that it left it open for us to see in ourselves what we might need to see. So many opportunities we can see, many tears and hurt we see, pain of the past and reawakening of ctrl-alt-deleting the past. I love the way the movie leaves it open for us to decide what's next for us tomorrow and after. Hope is the most powerful medicine in the world........and easy (and hard) to find.
This iland reminds me of when I was on a vegan diet and became depressed. Stuck alone on a island, asid in my stomach, skinny, hungry, and my friends and family turned to in to hungry animals. I ate my own body. This movie is about the feeling of starvation.
yo when i was 4-7 i loved this movie and due to some i problems i had to wear an eyepatch so i dont get surgery on the future and hated but now i know why my mom made me wear the eyepatch when watching the movie i would of been traumatized
