If you didn’t believe in God, what would it take to convince you He exists? “A story that will make you believe in God,” is how one character describes the events that take place in “Life of Pi”, the latest film by Ang Lee. The Life of Pi addresses itself to the demise of myth and meaning in our culture.
Actually, this mesmerizing tale forces us to look into the myth and meaning square in the eye. The film is based on the award-winning, best-selling 2001 book of the same name by Yann Martel about a 16 year old Indian teenager named Pi who spends 227 days stranded on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Though religious epiphanies may vary from viewer to viewer, there is no denying that “Life of Pi” is a very, very beautiful film to look at. While the same could be said of any number of computer-imagery-assisted films these days, very few of them have, at their....
