Most people do not understand "The Fantasy Drift of Young Pi" but from the movie to tell five stories, the ending is only one, not a relatively open ending, and the Chinese title of the film is only to attract the attention of the audience, director Lee's real name for the film is "Life of Pi" literally translated as the life of the pie, because the male protagonist Pie tells four stories one more than one fantasy but director Ang Lee only tells one story, about everyone's life
The first story is full of holes, the reason why the protagonist named himself Pie is the π whose pi is about 3.14, because when he was in elementary school, he could silently write four blackboards of π, an infinite non-cyclical decimal, which also proved that he had a good memory, when he was 17 years old in middle school, their whole family was moving from India to Canada, and after Pai separated from her first love girlfriend Ananti, the pie who remembered so well could not remember how they said goodbye, do you believe it?
Pi's father is a zoo owner, and in order to make friends with tigers when he was a child, Pi almost got bitten off a hand by a tiger, but thanks to his father arriving in time, he was lucky to escape the disaster.
As mentioned earlier, the Pai family all had to move to Canada to live, but halfway, because of the shipwreck, the whole ship died, leaving only Pai and four animals on the lifeboat, including a zebra with a broken leg, a hyena, a red orangutan, and the tiger who almost bit off one of his arms, and then the hyena ate the zebra with the broken leg, bit the orangutan, the tiger ate the hyena, and the pi tamed the tiger and drifted with the tiger for 227 days, unscathed until it was rescued. Do you still believe this story?
The rescued faction told the investigators that he had drifted with the tiger to a small island where all the plants could be eaten, and that there was still fresh water on the island, and that the island was full of foxes, and that the reason why they did not starve to death was that they temporarily rested on the island, received supplies, and finally found land to be rescued, which is even more outrageous.
Because first of all this island does not exist on the map, only one person has seen it, and secondly, the fox is a desert animal, how can it live on the island in large numbers? And this island is still a man-eating island, at night do not know what chemical reaction, fresh water will turn into acid.
Corrosion and creatures in the digestive tract, when it comes to this, most people should not believe his words, right? Of course, the investigators could not believe this too fantastical story, so Pi told the second story, a total of 4 people who boarded the lifeboat after the waves, sailors who broke their legs and tyrannical cooks, and Pai and Pai's mother, the chef killed the sailor with a broken leg in order to survive, the sailor's meat was dried and eaten, the mother clashed against the chef's inhuman cruelty, in the dispute, the cook killed the mother, and Pai avenged the death of the cook, and survived by eating the chef's meat, surviving 227 days of rafting. Finally saved, the story, although brutal, is significantly more credible and logical isn't it? Apparently Pie replaced all the people in the second story with animals, thus making up the first story, the broken-legged zebra is the sailor with the broken leg, and the hyena is the tyrannical cook, the orangutan who was bitten by the hyena is the mother, and the pie himself is the tiger, but the investigators still choose to believe the first story, and most of the audience is more willing to believe the story of the animal, not because the second story is too dark because everyone understands that the tiger metaphor for the primitive animal nature of the young pie, although the pie made the animalistic behavior. But after all, it is in special circumstances, and Pai's heart has also had a fierce struggle, confrontation with his own animal nature, and finally returned to human nature, so everyone believes that the first story is out of understanding him and choosing to forgive him, do not forget to say that there are five stories in the front, which are only the first two.
If there were more truths hidden in the lies of the young pi, and he not only killed people, but also ate his mother's flesh, would you still choose to understand and forgive?
The third story about the young pi will be more brutal and more real, the pie from childhood to believe in Hinduism, Christianity, Islam, three religions, and is a vegan, but in the vast sea drift for 227 days, human nature will collapse, in order to survive, he not only killed, but also ate people. First of all, the first story about animals is obviously a lie, from a logical analysis, before the shipwreck all animals are locked in cages, Pie's father, in order to make the animals quiet and prevent animals from getting seasick, fed the animals with sedative drugs, so after the shipwreck, it is impossible for animals to escape, making up animal stories, is a psychological comfort sent by the teenager to himself, because the psychological shadow is too deep, he must use the animals that grew up with him from childhood, to heal his soul, the father of the opening chapter is a new Indian, Do not believe in any religion, only believe in science, because the father was a child polio, praying to the gods is useless, the last thing that saved him is Western medicine, but one of his father's legs still left sequelae, from which it is inferred that the biggest truth hidden in the lie of the juvenile faction is that it is not the zebra nor the sailor who jumped off the lifeboat and broke the leg but the father, and the person who got on the lifeboat was the family of four.
In the narration to the investigator, the sailor was sent to die of a broken leg infection, the cook used the excuse of amputating the sailor, but let the sailor lose too much blood and die, in fact, he wanted to cover up himself and his brother Ravi, when he amputated his father, the father lost too much blood and died, and because there was no food, the hungry brother used the flesh of the father's corpse, fishing, the mother could not accept the brother's practice and slapped the brother, if the mother really hit the cook, according to the chef's character, it is impossible not to backhand, and then the pie said, Because he did not take the turtle caught by the chef, the cook beat him, the mother in order to defend himself and the chef had a conflict, the fight was killed by the chef, recalling the attitude of the party animals when he was a child, even the tiger he thought had a soul, can communicate, wanted to make friends with the tiger, almost lost an arm, combined with the religious beliefs of the pie, the young pi should not take the turtle, but deliberately released the turtle, and the mother clashed with the chef, but his brother Ravi, in the dispute the brother killed the mother by mistake, Then the young pi lost his mind and killed his brother, the brother did not resist, if it was the mother that the cook killed, the pie could only be killed together, the pie had no ability to kill the cook, in the survival war drifting at sea, the chef could not be tied up because of guilt.
Then, on the first fishing, the colored sea fish turned gray, which was a metaphor in his heart, he killed his brother, and before he was about to starve to death, Pai helplessly ate the flesh of his family and survived, Pai said: He led out the demons in my heart, and I could only endure the torment of the demons. And the demon he said was the animal nature that had to be obedient in the face of survival, and the fantasy of the man-eating island also corresponded to the human flesh he ate, the purple-red tree roots, the metaphor for the flesh and blood of the corpse, and the pool of acid that turned into acid metaphor for his own stomach.
The teeth on the tree are a metaphor for the fear and psychological shadow in his heart when he sees the teeth on the corpse's face, and the densely packed foxes on the island are metaphors for maggots after the corpse has decayed.
If you think the third story is too dark, then the fourth story is the endless purgatory, the party with excellent memory, why can't remember how to say goodbye to his first love girlfriend Ananti, after being rescued, the adult pie can return to India to reunite with Ananti, but why does he say that he lost his family and Ananti. Because they did not say goodbye at all, before the shipwreck, late at night or can encounter a storm, why send a person to run to the deck to see the sea, because he hid Ananti on the lifeboat, he went to the deck alone to confirm the safety of his girlfriend, and then replaced the mother in the second story and the third story with Ananti, which is the fourth story, there is actually a 5th animal on the lifeboat, that is, to avoid the tiger, climb to the rat on the pie, and the pie in order to protect himself, throw the mouse to the tiger to eat, It is the metaphor that in order to survive, the young pi whose heart is occupied by demons and bestiality kills and eats Ananti, so the red rope that Ananti gave to the faction turns white when the bullet runs out. In the face of the metaphor of survival reality, the inner pale helplessness, and Pai finally tied the white knot to the root of the tree on the cannibal island, which can be seen as he tied the knot to Ananti's corpse and returned it to his girlfriend, which is a goodbye that he can never remember or recall.
Don't you feel creepy?
These are interpretations and speculations, because the entire freighter only sends a survivor, and all the truths are known only to him, so as long as the logic is reasonable, there is a certain possibility, but the first four stories are not very likeable, and the fifth story told by director Ang Lee is the real fantasy drift in each of us, each of us is the young pi under the director of Ang Lee, and life is the boundless sea, and the fifth story of the juvenile pi is about the mental journey of growing up.
π this infinite non-circular decimal, real existence, but no law, there is no definite value, the name of the juvenile pie, representing that everyone does not know their fate, can only adapt to changes, the pie from childhood to believe in different religions, metaphor for us when we were young did not see the world of thousands, but there is curiosity about all things, this curiosity makes the party tiger interested, almost bitten off the hand, and this alludes to young people, newborn calves are not afraid of the brave desire to explore the tiger, but also represents the recklessness and ignorance of often making mistakes, The tiger is a metaphor for both innocence and the nature of yearning for freedom, and in the fifth story, there are no animals or others on the small lifeboat, only a lonely 17-year-old teenager.
Director Ang Lee in the previous shot, but in the third person God's perspective, only one person can be seen on the boat. Only in the first person perspective of Pie can he see the tiger, a metaphor for the fear and simple nature of everyone who has just left the family and entered the society, this sea is a complex society, and the long road of life, and this humpback whale that jumps out of the sea to the point of suffocation, representing the beautiful past in time and time.
But time is huge enough to crush anyone, so the waves stirred up by whales send all the compressed biscuits and fresh water of the young pie into the sea, symbolizing that after the young man wastes time, he becomes nothing, so the pie knows how to get along with himself and knows how to face the fear in his heart. Tame the tiger in your heart with patience and wisdom.
This also means that young people in the experience of growth, began to converge on the nature of simple freedom, slowly become rational, enough to gain a foothold in society, but life will always experience major setbacks, like a huge storm, the wind faction lost its own diary, metaphor to say goodbye to the past of the simple and naïve self, under the baptism of the storm, the young faction saw the holy light, saw the lightning on the surface of the sea, he was excited about the guidance of miracles, while crying that God took everything from him, and represented the tiger of nature, Shivering in the sinister nature of reality, metaphor for growing up, the former simplicity and freedom gradually drifted away, when the teenager thought that his youth was about to pass away, innocence will eventually die, he was devastated, representing the first love of the red rope was also worn into a pale color by the years, since then the teenager entered marriage and family, with a stable life, this is like coming to a dream island, the shape of the island is a female silhouette, representing the mother also represents the wife, the pie tied the red rope on the island, The metaphor is that he also has a home in his heart.
The young and ignorant youth is buried in the heart, but the food and clothing on the island are worry-free, it will make people slack and confused, the flowers sent to the trees see a tooth, the metaphor of time is hurried, he does not want to hang old in a comfortable life, so he must continue to go on the road, complete his reason and career, continue to fill the ship with supplies, express the support from the family, specially summon the tiger to the boat, but also a metaphor to return to the original heart, with a young heart to continue on the road. In the end, after all the wind and dust may be exhausted, but the young pi finally found their own continent, the tiger did not look back to leave, he cried bitterly, here are two metaphors, one is his years of hard work, and finally harvested the joy of success. The second is that the innocence and romance of childhood are gone, and we will eventually transform into a more rational and rusty adult.
When someone asked about Pai's legendary experience, Pai told two stories, one is a real person and the other is a fantasy fairy tale, he asked which story do you believe more? Most people will say, the one with the tiger.
Although we all know that fairy tales are fake, the tiger that walks into the forest will always stick his head out from the depths from time to time and tell us that he believes in fairy tales.