Life of pi review

Although I don't agree with the core concept that the author Yan Maetel set out  in the book 'this is a story make you believe in God', it's still undeniable that it is a film with pure soul and incredibly beautiful scene. 

The story itself is simple, an Indian teenage boy Pi (short for Piscine) was on a shop from India to North America with his entire family and animals from their private zoo but the the shop capsized and sank after met a terrible storm, all his family's lives were claimed but Pi survived and drifted on the ocean with a  dying zebra, a hungry hyena, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger that goes by the name of Richard Parker. During the 229 days Pi not only keeps his life from being devoured by the savage wild animals but also builds up a subtle relationship with the tiger. " All my life is an act of letting go but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye." No matter which story Pi tells is true, things come and go, it's necessary to set the tiger in our heart free. 



The 3D and CGI is no doubt the delicate touch of this film. Below is some information about this special effects online:

" Putting a teenage boy and an adult Bengal tiger together in an enclosed space, such as the 20-foot lifeboat that is one of the few settings of Life of Pi, is a dangerous proposition. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that 17-year-old star Suraj Sharma, who played Pi, was never actually in the boat with a live tiger.

"No, that never happened," Sharma told NextMovie of sharing the boat. Instead, he studied his massive, furry co-stars in their cages, and watched videos of their movement online. "I would watch them be trained and stuff like that."

"We didn't want our actor to get eaten," visual effects supervisor Bill Westenhofer told the New York Times." 

Four real tigers were used in the production, for reference and motion capture, as well as for actual pivotal scenes. Including footage of actual tigers forced the effects team to make their digital tigers look realistic enough so as to be indistinguishable from the actual tigers.

"It set our bar high for CGI," Westenhofer said. "We couldn't cheat at all. It pushed the artists to go and deliver something that's never been done before, something as photo-real as anyone has ever done with an animal."

For example, for a scene in which the tiger, Richard Parker, swims in the water and can't get back onto the boat without Pi's help, a real tiger was used. In a scene where Richard Parker swipes at Pi from under a tarp, digital effects were used." 

(http://www.starpulse.com/news/NextMovie/2012/11/21/life_of_pi_tiger_whats_real_and_whats_)