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| Suraj Sharma in Ang Lee's Life of Pi |
I was
moved by Ang Lee’s new movie, Life of Pi which
achieves it’s beauty from all the state-of-the-art digital utilities
imaginable. It is a mysterious spiritual journey, which invites the audience to
experience something interpretive.
I found the computer-generated
imagery in Life of Pi to be the kind that is so immersive, that my concept of
its artificiality faded away. It’s the kind of visuals that are tailored to
evoke emotions and make the achievement of photo-realism a second priority.
Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain) has made a variety of different
films and most of them are sad stories. This is the most hopeful and life
affirming of them all. Based on Yan Martel’s 2001 fantasy novel, it follows the
adventures of a shipwrecked Indian boy stuck in a lifeboat with a hungry tiger.
His struggle to co-exist with the tiger in a survival situation is filled with
symbolism in a way that makes me understand why many readers thought this to be
an un-filmable story. It is almost abstract in concept.
I’d be interested to
know what fans of the book found to be lost in translation because I got a lot
out of this story. It had the kind of euphoric effect I crave from cinema and
rarely find in a 3D movie like one should expect.
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