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<\/a><\/p>\nDirector: \u00a0<\/strong>Ang Lee Spirituality is at the heart of the novel and so it is with the film.\u00a0 The eponymous Pi is a young Indian man in the Seventies who lives with his family that own a zoo in a town called Pondicherry.\u00a0 Pi is short for Piscinne, an unusual name which he regrets, as it sounds too close to ‘pissing’ which proves irresistible for Pi’s classmates.\u00a0 Pi re-invents himself by pulling a stunt in a classroom where he accurately writes out the value of pi over several hundred digits, filling out an entire chalkboard.\u00a0 It’s hard work but he successfully gets his new abbreviated name to stick.<\/p>\n Even for India, home to a hundred deities, Pi is unusually taken by religion.\u00a0 He is born a Hindu but when he enters a church seeking something to drink, he becomes taken with Christianity.\u00a0 Not long after, he also takes up the call to prayer and becomes a practicing Muslim.\u00a0 All of this is a source of consternation for Pi’s father, a scientist and atheist.<\/p>\n Early in the film, Pi’s father is alarmed when he finds Pi feeding a tiger in dangerously close proximity.\u00a0 He decides to teach Pi a lesson by showing him a live feeding of a goat which the tiger quickly kills and consumes in unceremonious fashion.\u00a0 Pi’s father urges him not to romanticize the animal instincts of the tiger.\u00a0 This lesson in staying grounded in harsh realities of mother nature becomes an interesting juxtaposition to the events that unfold later in the film.<\/p>\n
\nWriter: \u00a0<\/strong>Yann Martel, David McGee
\nCast: \u00a0<\/strong>Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan<\/p>\nY<\/span>ann Martel’s novel Life of Pi<\/em> was a highly acclaimed and award-winning piece of literature that received praise from no less than Barack Obama who wrote to Martel in 2010 and stated that Life of Pi<\/em> was “an elegant proof of God, and the power of storytelling.”<\/p>\n