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wow, Reema. I had learnt some lessons from this magical movie, but you have showed me so many more. Thank you.
tx rani!
I had bought the book so that I could read it & enjoy the movie ‘better’. But when I watched the movie, the book was only half read….and this page seems to encapsulate everything…But still- I haven’nt been able to answer my nephew’s query as to how this story makes you believe in God…
I think, if you surrender to a force bigger than you and see beauty and divinity in everything..even adersity..that is when you know God and also that ..there is nothing out there..its all in here..the good, the bad,the divine. But that’s just my take, am sure there are many who have taken something else from the film 🙂
Loved the film and loved your take on it.
Beautiful.
I certainly did not pick up on all these lessons after watching the movie…thank you!
Reema, I almost wrote a post about the parallels I drew between me and Pi, especially the religion and spirituality bit! It’s funny you mention surrender because that is exactly what I took from the movie and also that we all are one. Loved the movie better than the book btw.
I point about sometimes we might have to live with the unsaid. Difficult to accept but there’s no choice; is there.
The point about sometimes we might have to live with the unsaid. Difficult to accept but there’s no choice; is there.
Here’s how i saw “Life of Pi” :
We are born in a world without any strings… Left to ourselves to figure a purpose, if any.
Caught in an enigma of freedom and yet caged within the savages of our body,
Left to wonder the origin and the existence of what is, the way we see it,
We live to die and are yet born to live and the cycle continues unabated,
We are forced to live on the lives of every being and yet we exhibit compassion.
Alas! All life is a lost path but if we are not travelers then what are we?