《少年派》中英文影评

Comment on the movie《Life Of Pi》Seeing from the Chinese title of this movie，it’s not difficult to know that《Life Of Pi》is a movie full of fantasy and adventure. The film tells the story of Pi who had a 227 days ’adventurous drift at sea with a Bengal tiger. While bringing us a stunning audio-visual feast, the movie also led us to think about humanity and barbarity.

From the perspective of shooting skill，the film was shoot in the similar way with《Titanic》：The aged protagonist tells his or her own experience or story to us. There is a big part of background of Pi’s Boy’ life which seems kind of boring at first; but when I finished watching the whole movie, I finally realized the importance of the long opening: it helps a lot with our understanding of the later stories happening to Pi.

As for the story of the movie, actually director Ang Leeprovided us two stories to choose: One is about the drift between the young man and the tiger. The other one is that author concludes that cook have killed and ate the seaman, then killed Pi’s mother, eventually Pi killed and ate the cook. The grown Pi didn’t declare against the conclusion. Instead, he just asked the author that which story does he like. Grown Pi said the author believed in god after he got the answer.

F or me, I don’t believe in God, neither do I think there is much

meaning in auguring which story is true or false .I sn’t it much better that we’re given more space to think and make the choice by our own understanding?We all seem to be good at suspecting all the beauty while denying the cruelty of reality. I prefer the 1st story maybe just because there is a 2nd story. And this is exactly where this film is bright: turning the story of slaughter and revenge in human world into a story of the law of jungle in animal world and the friendship between the teenage Pi and the tiger. Through the two different stories, the film discussed how to defeat fear, how to overcome oneself and how to get along with oneself.

All in all, asfar as I’m concerned ,in《Life Of Pi》, a story happened among a teenager, a tiger and a vast sea, directorAng Lee refined a highly metaphorical life by closed space scheduling, magnificent visual images and the artistic technique of the actual situation and white：how to get along with oneself? There are so many questions left in the film for us to think，which is one of the reasons why I love it. I remember there is a scene in the film, memorable and thought-provoking: At last the Tiger ran to the jungle without looking back——“All of life is an act of letting go, but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say good-bye” ,Pi said.——“When people step into the social jungle, don’t they also refuse to get back anymore?”, I am thinking .