This scene is very dark. I never realized it after I watched the movie the 2nd time. The island represents his mother's corpse. He subjected to cannibalism due to extreme hunger. The lotus in the forest is a recollection from Anandi, the lover he left in India, in which he asks her what does the unusual hand sign mean when she danced in the class. Everything makes sense, it all came together. The screenplay, story and structure of this movie is really ambiguous yet amazing.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he almost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
He ate the flesh of another person to survive. I can’t imagine the horror of having to do so. It must have been so traumatizing he disassociated for the sake of his own mental health. Kind of like how abuse survivors create a whole different childhood memory to forget.
This island reminds me of addiction. Empty promises. A false comfort gained, and then lost. And afterward, we are left with less in reality than we had before. That cycle of immediate happiness, filling a void, a hazardous, toxic happiness that is in reality, a beautiful lie. Eventually dissolving us if we get comfortable within it's grasp and don't leave it behind, to journey on in search for genuine happiness. I always think of addiction when I see this scene.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
Your words are completely true. I can feel your heart. Empty promises? False comfort? Less in reality. Those words really wise and hard truth. I really hope people around you will know your value.
@@ad__obderver no just been through a lot in my short life. A lot of loss and self sabotage. A lot of sacrifice a lot of self hatred and self punishment. A lot of learning.
@@BLUiBOY "whatever the island gave by day it took away again at night" This immediately reminded me of addiction to substances. You get false hope false happiness that's gone again in the morning.
I think the most persuasive euphemism here, is that he was so hungry at that point in time, he resorted to cannibalizing the rotting corpses(the island resembles a person lying down). The flesh would sate his hunger(filled by day), but since it was rancid and spoiled, lead to diarrhea(taken at night). The tooth found also gives a hint to this. Another slightly different explanation, would be that the night and day difference was indicating the psychological damage of cannibalism, in which the sustenance during the day was exchanged for the tortuous dreams during night.
not exactly the real meaning u can get behind this scene if u know about karmayoga , in the epic mahabharata sree krishna gave his epic wisdom and knowledge about the tenets of life and our duty towards them. u guys need to know a bit of our philosophy to understand it or else I can explain to u
did that happen in the book? I just thought it was kind of similar to the sirens type deal. like he even describes loneliness to the reporter. not starvation
The island represented his mother's corpse (remember the tiger ate the orangutan and note the island had the shape of a woman). Meerkats, which never resisted and slept with him, were maggots. delicious roots where human muscle fiber. The pond with acids was his stomach. When he saw cook's teeth in this mother's corpse (he mentioned twice that the cook was resourceful so he must have consumed part of the body, and lotus is the representation of his mother shown by her first appearance in the movie), he shocked and realized he had gone too far. So he left (tying the string on the roots means to say goodbye, but it was too dark, so he always forgot goodbye).
@@hriturajsutradhar6926 no there are 2 stories.... remember what he told the japanese interviewers, that he killed the cook and his mother and he infact was actually Richard Parker
After the accident .The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
You got it backwards, the island is the cook's body and the tooth was his mother's in the cook's stomach. The cook kills Pi's mother after which Pi kills him with a knife.
it relates to first part of movie where pi and his family floated candles in pond where deity vishnu's was floating in boat...the island resembles sleeping vishnu.
0:42 One of my favourite moments in any film ever, just those three shots of Richard Parker on the boat, one from a far distance, the next closer, the last looking from behind. Definitely one of the most beautiful shots I've ever seen
This movie just contains the most amazing pictures. 0:50 for example is just so gorgeous to look at. The tiger, waiting in the boat, the sky full of stars...can't get over the beauty of this
The island is like his dead mother, Pi has to eat his mother because the mean cook murdered her, Pi then killed the cook. This was referenced by: The hyena (cook) kills the zebra (sailor), the hyena kills the orangutan (Pi’s mother), and Richard Parker is Pi, which kills the cook
Guys. You're looking into it too much. Yes the film has so much symbolisms but him on the island is not necessarily it. He narrates it in the book as an "experience", whether he's hallucinating by then or actually in a mystical albeit physical phenomenon, we don't know, but what we're sure is that the author is not allegorizing symbolism. It's his actual experience.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
Watched life of pi when I was a little bit too young to understand now a little bit older, there’s something so special about the philosophy in this film that it’ll always be one of my favorites
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
i don't get it, so the whole movie did not happen? n everything he said he did was what his mind made up cos he cud not comprehend what happened? pls somebody explain
@@anittamantees3776 itself kinda simple. The island was made out of dead corpses. Everything that grew on the island including fruits and what grew from the corpses that ended up on the island. It's because the water turned into acid at night.
It's all representative. It's most likely it was all changed because Pi suppressed the memories and they got twisted and changed. That's how the brain deals with trauma, by giving you completely new memories or just forgetting them
@@anittamantees3776 you are allowed to interpret the movie however you want but if you are looking how the animal story connects to the version with people I think I can explain. So basically the tiger is suppose to be a symbol for pi survival instinct or ego, the chimpanzee is his mother, the zebra a wounded Chinese sailor, and the hyena a French cook. The sailor was wounded and had a broken leg so the cook convinced them to amputate his leg so it wouldn’t rot. Turns out he actually did it to use the leg as bait which upsets pi’s mom. After the soldier dies the cook guts him and uses it for bait eating some of the meat. This upsets the mom and they get into a fight after pi let’s go of a turtle they caught. The cook kills pi’s mom leading to pi killing the cook. After killing him he carbs out his heart and liver and eats them along with some flesh. The island can be a symbolic representation of him turning to cannibalism to survive. Some people believe t the animals on the island (I forgot what they are called) are maggots in the flesh and him eating the root of a tree is him sucking on the inside of the bone. Hope it helped!
real meaning u can get behind this scene if u know about karmayoga , in the epic mahabharata sree krishna gave his epic wisdom and knowledge about the tenets of life and our duty towards them. u guys need to know a bit of our philosophy to understand it or else I can explain to u
Im at this part in the movie right now and this scene hit me to the core. Years of my life spent in comfort without challenging myself or embarking into the world. The very things that brought pleasure and safety become like this island. It kills you in the end and all you have is loneliness. Since last year I have been actively undergoing a spiritual awakening and development journey. I have to get back into the world or die trying 🌏🚣♂️⛰🌳☘🌴⛰
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he almost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
richard parker is the survial instinct of pi, he goes where's he's needed thats why when pi got rescued he left it was thanks to richard parker he was able to survive because psychologically seeing humans do that and kill ur mom it's alot to process..
@Zayan Khan yes!!! And even Pi himself checks the ground out in the novel as to see if his analysis was correct. Unfortunately it was and he hurt his feet very bad that even the soothing algae in the tree barks were not providing him relief so he killed a meerkat and used it's life blood fluids to soak up the scathing poison stuck in his foot skin which the entire elements of the island released after sunset 🥺
This movie should definitely be in everyones bucketlist. For those who were able to see it before their final moments, i hope it gave you a beautiful experience and may you rest in peace ❤
Neko Aurora Did you See the movie? In the ending there is a twist, showing how he actually was Richard Parker. He was the „Monster“! The Island is probably a metaphor for hin eating his dead mother
That didn't actually happen, the island was a metaphor for him to not give up because since the island was perfect and he could live there forever, everyone would forget about him
@@nekoaurora1445 Exactly. When I first saw the movie I was still young and didn't understand the sad twist at the end. But this makes the movie that good - it kind of gives it a new perspective.
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.
Just finished reading the book. I completely missed the cannabilism connection until reading the comments...although I was wondering where the tooth came from, if he dropped his mother's head overboard. What's the connection in the believable story?
I was 7 when I saw the movie in the cinema. I seem to have ignored the part where the dude explains it because I always thought the island was radioactive or something weird like that.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
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.
I was enjoying the movie and thinking all the scene is so pretty until this island scene show up. I start to realize how creepy this is. On top of that , I just found out that this is also an symbolic that Pi ate a human body ( his mom/his girlfriend/the chef) . Now I feel like this scene permanently scar me 😭
No that's a fake story made up by him to make the ship company believe to claim insurance. The tiger story is the true one He didn't eat his mother. They all died when the ship sunk
@@harsha6655 no that's not fake lol, if u read the book, u will know that it is an open ending. It's upto the viewer to believe what happened. Read the book man
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
Whether it be real or not, this serves a good lesson of complacency, which in term gives comfort and sustenance, and in turn escaping one’s reality for another until death parts. This can be taught with any person in life, so we must be aware of our comforts that take away that survival instinct and growth, like a brain being devoured of such things because “there is no need”.
This scene freaked me out the most. Even more so now that I know about the actual evidence of titans as big as mountain ranges all over the earth. What if this was really a sleeping giant..?
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I always thought this Island was real since there are a lot of things we don’t know in ocean. I’ve been visiting lots of islands in Pacific Ocean such as in Papua New guinea, Tahiti, Fiji, French Polynesia and Hawaii. Every island has its beautiful things, animal, plants, even soil. But I believe there are still many islands that are not on the map.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
Check out Brine Pool. Kinda similar naturally occurring phenomenon, but inside oceans. Thank me later. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZwuVpNYrKPY.html
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.
So, basically the water turns acidic and kills the fish then the island decays and eats them. The tooth was from someone who decided to stay there then died, so the island devoured him.
@Sachin Shambulingappa Most people don't understand what's happening. This entire movie is about the cannibalism that happened on the boat. The island is a representation of what he has endured. The island consumes life just like on the boat. The "animals" (humans) had to eat one another to live on their long journey. He was just a kid when this happened. He had to cope with such a horrific moment by creating an elaborate story to ease the pain of the trauma.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he almost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
Shrimad Bhagwad Geeta - The Divine Song (LORD KRISHNA) Chapter 8, Verse 18 When Brahma's day is manifest, this multitude of living entities comes into being, and at the arrival of Brahma's night they are all annihilated. The same thing shown in Life of Pi at that island and the island shape was of a human. Brahma precisely. Such beautiful creation. Pure magic and yet so calculative and logical. But people tend to live a life of complete ignorance. It can only be completed by love. Love could be for anything. But as Krishna says based on, Religious Principles. Here religious means the desired/the correct way. Religion alone here would be misguiding, it says religious principles. It means it should be done in the best way and for good reasons and for welfare of all. And best way includes all the aspect to human life. Because our Earth is an example of it. It gives us everything, but we in desire to take out each and everything out of it, we have ruined so many things along the way. We all our God, but individually nobody is God.
I’m sorry but that is The most stupid logic I’ve ever seen in my life . Read the Bible to know the truth . We are all not our own god , for we are simply a mere human full of mistakes and sin . But then yeh lord (our one an only god ) is here he saved us , open your eyes now to the truth . Of the son , father and Holy Spirit , and don’t give in to these lies of man and slither of snake . Understand that you are a servent if our lord god . A child if you will . Soon you will see it to be true .
If you stay and rely on a toxic environment or a toxic situation for too long you will eventually die. The island was nice during the day but at night it became toxic. To think, how many hours and days and weeks will I stay in this place that gives me good during the day but takes it all at night? I realized it wasn't worth it and that I would eventually die sooner or later. So I decided to leave the island hoping to get back to the real world.
The whole incident didn't happen on earth . It was another dimension created by Lord Vishnu himself ! Where the law of Nature science as we know it doesn't apply . hence all the mystical occurings. The first ever fish he caught when he aost starved to death was Lord Vishnu in the form of' Matsya' an avatar of Lord Vishnu which was pulsating in so many colours when caught especially blue ! The glowing ocean with projections of Pi's life , the calm ocean , the angry ocean all nothing but the Lord's leela or projections , showing we are creations of his cosmic imagination . ALSO the carnivorous island was the body of the lord . In hindu mythology Lord Vishnu floats in an infinite ocean which is the universe itself ! Richard Parker was an unlikely companion who kept Pi's will to survive alive !
You are almost the only person who has gotten the gist...the events on island don't represent anything canibilistic. Rather it represents our dependence on safe areas in our life ,a poor job or relationship or person, which if it sustains us during the day takes all away at night by not letting us face the vagaries of world ocean on the basis of our own instinct and progress spiritually. So even safety of mother's love keeps us dependent on her corpse instead of go out to ocean and catch fish on our own.
i was just watching this scene, enjoying and imagining myself i was in his position (Seriously the scene was very chill) then when i saw some comments on youtube now i have to think hard about the depiction to fully understand *sigh*
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.
Those who claim it's lord Vishnu or Buddha - you prefer the story with animals. Those who are saying it was his mother - you understand what is truth and mostly acknowledge that sometimes we choose fiction over truth and hence understand why people believe in religion.
It's a mass of plants and trees that forms a floating island that produces acidic substances to reduce the ph of the water and lure the fishes into those pools with its bioluminescence thus enabling the island to digest any form of animals to sustain itself thanks to million years of evolution
"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.
Lord Vishnu symbolism is true because lotus is related lord vishnu. Because before narrating the story Pi said that You will believe in GOD after story.
the island looking like a man is a reference to lord Vishnu . The supreme god in Hinduism. One that has no beginning and no end.i think it shows the mythological reference in which in one day of lord Vishnu the universe is created and again when night occurs according to his time period the universe gets erased from existence .all the gods and human beings and every trace of life dies. Then in morning Vishnu wakes up and recreate the universe . And this process keeps on going and there is no end to it.
Looks like the Sleeping Giant in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada 🇨🇦. A rock formation that is a peninsula in Lake Superior in case you haven’t heard of it.
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
