Then Pi asks the investigators which story they prefer. So Pi tells a shorter, ugly version that we know is true, but hate to believe. At the end of the film and novel, when Pi has told his long fabulist story to two Japanese insurance investigators they refuse to believe him. So where does God come in? How can this story make us believe in God? Analyzing fiction for symbolism is tricky, but for me, Richard Parker represents God though analogy. Martel is right, everyone, including realists like me, will pick the story with Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger. Yann Martel creates two stories, one very long, elaborate, fantastic, awe inspiring – and brutal, and a second that is short and brutal. Most kōans are short, “What is the sound of one hand clapping.” Yann Martel essentially asks, “Is God the better story?”Īt the beginning of the novel and movie, in a pseudo introduction, the author is told by an older Pi, that he can tell the author a story that will make him believe in God. Yann Martel has crafted a Zen kōan into a novel. But along the way, Martel takes us through scenes that are very hard to believe, like the carnivorous island with the meerkats. Martel tells us this story very realistically and we are expected to believe it happened. In the main story, a boy from India, Piscine Molitor Patel, who wants to be called Pi, is shipwreck in a lifeboat with a zebra, orangutan, hyena and a tiger named Richard Parker. If you haven’t read the book or seen the movie, don’t read beyond this point if you plan do either, because I’m going to analyze the philosophical statement of the book and it will spoil the story. If you loved the book, go see the film, you’ll be surprised by how well it was filmed. Still, Lee and Magee beautifully succeeded with capturing the philosophical heart of the novel.
Second, showing how Pi used turtles to survive, and finally, the scene where Pi is blind and hears people in another life raft. First, story of Pi’s family running into Pi’s three religious leaders. So far I can think of just three scenes I missed. Life of Pi the film covered a surprising amount of the content of Life of Pi the book. When I read the book back in 2004 I thought at the time it would never be made into a film because the novel was too cerebral, too narrative heavy, plus, how could anyone get a tiger to do all that acting? Director Ang Lee and screenwriter David Magee have done an excellent job of adapting Yann Martel’s 2001 novel Life of Pi to film.
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