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"The Fantasy Drift of The Young Pi" is based on Jan Martel's popular novel of the same name.
Directed by Ang Lee, a Chinese-Hollywood director, the film follows Pi boyhood and a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker adrift at sea for 227 days.
The film premiered worldwide at the 2012 New York Film Festival and won four awards at the 85th Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Visual Effects and Best Original Music.
As time passes, the light of classics becomes more and more apparent.
So, what's so good about this movie?
A good movie must have a good theme, and it also needs to be expressed through appropriate plot and structure.
The structure of this film is not unique, but it is just right.
The film generally adopts a reverse order approach, beginning with a conversation between the writer and the adult faction, which is used as an introduction, from a few simple questions to the personal experience of the faction, and in the process, the topics raised by the writer slowly arouse the interest of the faction, and the narrative begins to enter the memories of the faction.
Most of the film is pie's fantasy drifting, and the causes, processes, and results of the drifting are fully explained in the memory part.
Finally, the perspective turns back to the present, ending with a conversation between the writer and Pie, and the pie himself reveals another ending, which is thought-provoking.
Judging from the narrative of the film, its focus and point of view are focused on the drifting process of the pie, which can most arouse the curiosity of the audience, whether it is in the plot ups and downs, the direction of the story, or the situation mode, fantasy scenery, all of which satisfy the audience's appetite.
The director's cleverness lies in the fact that when the reverse order ends and the perspective returns to reality, the story does not end as usual, but rises out of nowhere, sending himself to tell a different ending, while the other version of the drift is not fantasy, but cruel.
Such a twist, inheriting the previous overly fantastic and almost illusory experience, is naturally told, natural and prominent, and the pen is sharp and breathtaking, just like the tip of the iceberg, which hides a surprising inside story.
It is this open-ended ending that makes the work more attractive and avoids the monotony of conventional flashbacks.
Newton said he achieved so much because he stood on the shoulders of the giants.
This is not only true in the field of science, but also in the literary and artistic circles. "The Fantasy Drifting of the Young Pi" is obviously a reference to two classic literary masterpieces, namely "The Old Man and the Sea" and "Robinson Crusoe".
For the content of these two works, I will not repeat them here, and then briefly talk about the reference and innovation of "The Fantasy Drifting of the Young Pi" to the former.
Pie's drifting process is basically close to Sandiago, alone, vast sea, a flat boat, difficult and difficult, far away, and finally experienced hardships and returned to the coast, but all lost.
Judging from Hemingway's language style and the animated version of "The Old Man and the Sea", the 3D technology of "The Fantasy Drift of the Young Pi" has achieved a transcendence of the classic on the basis of inheritance in terms of visual effects.
The colors are brilliant, the images are realistic, and the real and the fantastic are shocking.
The wonders of the ocean, whether it is the morning sun or the sunset, whether it is cumulonimbus clouds or storms, whether it is the starry sky or the bottom of the sea, whether it is the school of fish speeding by or the whales that come out of the water, all give the audience a new and shocking audiovisual enjoyment.
The rafting experience of the young pi inherits the theme of the previous rafting adventure.
The young man was suddenly shipwrecked at sea, drifting on the sea, his situation and state of mind, collecting materials to make simple tools, accidentally obtaining precious materials, and using shorter and shorter pencils, all of which are similar to "Robinson Crusoe".
Of course, in addition to inheritance, there is innovation.
Compared with "The Old Man and the Sea", the plot conflict is no longer a fight between the old man and a salmon, but instead a trial, fight, compatibility and sharing weal and woe between the juvenile pi and the tiger.
Sandiago's going to sea is the challenge of the old fisherman to himself, and the drifting of the juvenile pie is the teenager's quest for faith.
Compared with Robinson Crusoe, the lonely situation is no longer the rest of the desert island, but survival in the endless ocean.
The film "The Fantasy Drift of Young Pi" combines a variety of aesthetic needs, or so to speak, there are multiple cultural elements in the film, which meet the needs of audiences with different cultural psychology.
"The Fantasy Drifting of young Pi" is a delicious and unforgettable platter that makes people look amazing and unforgettable.
Those who like picture quality and scenery can see beautiful fantasy scenes in the film.
Those who are keen on the plot can immerse themselves in the exciting and colorful adventures of the juvenile pi.
Those who love to hunt will also pay considerable attention to the people and tigers in the ocean, and the quiet and eerie man-eating island.
Obsessed with reasoning, the third story will be deduced from the flaws in the second story.
Of course, the most distinctive feature of this platter is the consistent symbolism and philosophical thinking of the film.
In his childhood, the environment in which he lived, the religion he believed, the experience of going to school, and the attempt to feed the tiger all showed symbolic significance.
The living environment of the pie has a strong religious atmosphere, which can subconsciously stimulate the party's understanding of the world and life, and affect the thought of the pie.
When he sneaked out onto the deck alone on the night of the shipwreck to watch the storm, he could see his praise for the Creator.
When he drifted in the ocean and encountered another storm, the call of the sect was "God", which shows that there is a religious subconscious in it.
Because of the indecent sound of his name, Pai was often ridiculed by his classmates around him, and eventually gave himself the name "π".
"π" is an infinite non-looping decimal, and in order to illustrate the unique meaning of his name, the teenagers write a long string of numbers after the decimal point on the classroom blackboard in public.
Because "π" is an infinite non-cyclic decimal, even if it is written on a whole blackboard, the juvenile pi can not seek the final result.
Therefore, such an infinitely non-cyclical decimal number is overshadowed by a layer of infinite exploration and continuous circulation.
At the end, in the second version of the story narrated by Pie, the cook, mother, and sailor correspond to the hyena, orangutan, and zebra in the first version, respectively, while Pie himself is a tiger.
You may not be able to accept the second cruel story, but the foreshadowing in the entire film's narrative points to such a real cruel and bloody truth.
The film shows the combination of appearance and essence, the game of sensibility and reason, human nature and animal nature.
The first story uses most of the length, but it is a metaphor for the second story, in which people receive the previous version of the story of harmony and fraternity, and after rational analysis and judgment, the story without animals is the shock that points directly to the human heart.
Only when the two stories are combined can we appreciate the profound philosophical ideas of the work.
We can think of the whole drifting process of Pie as a search for faith, and as a teenager, he was a believer who believed in three religions at the same time, and such a sea adventure can be said to be a difficult quest for Pie to continue his religious enthusiasm.
We can't specify exactly what Pai's faith is, he has a reverence for God, and he also kneels down and shouts when the storm comes, "You took everything I have, what else do you want?!" This question of God.
This also tends to cause the audience to think, to make people reflect on their own beliefs, the ultimate meaning of philosophy is as unlimited as π, and the problem is that in today's era, we should retain the pursuit of faith, rather than ignoring and ignoring.
We can also regard the difference between pie and tiger as the difference between good and evil within people, and the first story of pie and tiger you fight and friction and competition can be seen as a struggle between people's inner good intentions and evil thoughts, the struggle between human nature and animal nature.
When the lifeboat arrives at the shore, Tiger Parker leaves without any attachment, perhaps as a sign of people's ultimate choice for good.
The film's original title was Life of Pi, not the translation of "The Fantastic Drift of The Young Pi.".
Explored by the original name, which is also rich in connotation, life can represent both life and life.
As the film shows, Pie's drift is not only a life experience in his own long life, but also a survival test under extreme conditions.
What kind of choices should be made to survive or perish in the face of such an extremely serious and realistic problem?
Is it the fierceness of the chef, the righteous words of the mother, or the intolerable courage of the pie?
In extremely difficult circumstances, the shackles of religious dogmas, the influence of living customs, the good wishes of kindness, and the instinct to fight for survival are fully displayed in the storyline, and each voice is voiced and thought-provoking.
"The Fantasy Drift of Young Pi" is a masterpiece of philosophical cinema and is worth learning.
A good movie cannot be just a technical flow, it must need the core of the mind to highlight the shining point.
Obsessed with the illusion created by science and technology without humanistic feelings, empty plot tension without the strength of thought, and luxurious cast without connotation of thickness, it is impossible to produce classics.