Popcorn tastes particularly good with some films if we can switch off our brains and just be entertained. Some films ask questions about the big issues in life and are heavy on the stomach – in a good way. But every now and then a film manages to do both Adventure and wonder as well as connecting big questions with each other.
If you’re lucky, it’ll look as stunning as Ang Lee’s masterful fantasy adventure Life of Pi: Tiger Shipwreck. A film that is completely… special journey across the ocean, but also represents the depths of humanity. What is told here with a lot of heart, strong images and a pinch of humor can change your view of your own world a little. You can stream this adventure trip on Disney+.
In the adventure film Life of Pi, the title character Pi has to survive 227 days on the high seas – with a hungry tiger
Piscine Patel (Suraj Sharma) is called just Pi, loves animals and is fascinated by the mysteries of life and the universe. Every world religion inspires him, and he recognizes the soul of the inhabitants of his parents’ zoo in Pondicherry. He always learns new lessons from every part of his life. Also that life many painful farewells has ready.
One day the political situation in India forces his family to emigrate to Canada with the majority of the zoo animals. So Pi leaves his home without saying goodbye. But the losses don’t stop there. The freighter that is supposed to take them to their new homeland capsizes in a violent storm. Pi is the only survivorapart from a few animals.
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Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger
He is now floating alone on the Pacific. On board his boat are a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena – and Richard Parker. Richard Parker, the giant Bengal tiger. Pi mourns the loss of his family, but he hasn’t given up on himself. With an iron will he begins, to fight for his survival. Countless horrors, but also wonders of the ocean await him.
Life of Pi on Disney+ is not just a thrilling adventure film, but a meditation on life
Life of Pi is an adventure, but also a meditation on how narrow Light and shadow, horror and beauty lie next to each other. When Pi’s fingers glide through the bioluminescence of the nighttime ocean like through a galaxy, you can’t help but be a little awestruck. And when storms roll over him, their primal violence can be felt all over the body – and yet still picturesquely beautiful.
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Life of Pi: Shipwreck with Tiger
But this story also lacks philosophical questions Life and survival not. How much meaning can and should we give to the things that happen to us? Where does humanity begin and where does it end? How do we deal with loss and unexpected turns in life? And what meaning do stories really have for us?
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Life of Pi provides no answers. Just food for thought and plenty of peace and space to think about it. With images that can be dynamic and shake us up. And others that stand still, like the endlessly smooth sea in which the entire saffron-colored sky is reflected. There is never a long sermon. Life of Pi is an invitation, a journey and a dream – that everyone can dream as he or she wants.
If you want to go on this journey with Pi and Richard Parker, you can do so at any time with a Disney+ streaming subscription.
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