LIFE-OF-PI少年派賞析英文版

1、catalogue1.Introduction2.Story line3.Truth of story4. Enlightenment5. Beautiful views & Meaningful wordsPart 1： Introduction Introduction of LIFE OF PI ：The film was adapted from a novel of the same name. It was directed by Li An. The movie tells a story about a young man named Pi and a tiger who dr

2、ifted in the ocean for 227 days. The movie was first showed in the cinema on the 28, 9, 2012 in New York.Li won 4 praises in the 85th Oscar with this movie. Introduction of the director：Ang Lee, born on the 23, 10, 1954 on Taiwan, a famous director in the movie world.After his movie study in college

3、, he started his career and won many glory. In 2009, he was assessed as “one of the greatest director”.On the 85th Oscar, he won the Best Director Award with the Life Of Pi. He is the first person of Asian descent to win the Best Director Oscar. Performers In LIFE OF PISuraj Sharma(Pi)A 17 years old

4、 boy who had never acted in any movie.Representation:LIFE OF PI Performers In LIFE OF PIIrfan Khan(Older Pi)An indian actor who Graduated from NationalSchool of drama of New Delhi.Representation:SLUMDOG MILLIONAIREA MIGHTY HEARTTHE AMAZING SPIDER-MANLIFE OF PI Performers In LIFE OF PIRafe Spall(the

5、Writer)An actor whose father played a role in the famous movie Harry Porter.Representation:THE LAST DROPONE DAYPROMETHEUSLIFE OF PIMain Roles Of The StoryPiscine Patel(Pi)who was born in India. And believes in Christianity,Islam and Hinduism at the same time.Richard ParkerA tiger.Part 2： Story line

6、This is a story with abundant imagination。The film starts with a writer who wanted to find inspiration for writing. And he happened to get a story from Pi. Pis father ran a zoo in India. He held his own concept about the world. His family decided to emigrate to Canada for better life .Unfortunately，

7、in the ocean the ship encountered a storm and sank. Pis families died in the ocean and many animals sank with the ship.Pi dropped on a lifeboat with a zebra and soon a orangutan, a hyena and a tiger climb in to the boat.In the first 3 days, the hyena bit the zebra and the orangutan to death. The tig

8、er killed the hyena after that. At first, Pi felt frightening but when the days went by, his feeling changed from fear into dependent. And the tiger become a power for Pi to live.In the Journey, Pi found a cannibal islands whichtens of thousands of meerkats live on.After a short stay in the cannibal

9、. Pi left with the tiger in panic and again began drifting until he was rescued in Mexico beach. At the same time, the tiger Richard turned to the forest and disappeared without looking back.After being rescued, Pi told a second story when two Japaneses who wanted to know the truth about the shipwre

10、ck cant believe the first story. The second storythe lifeboat is with no animal, but a cook, a seaman with a broken leg, Pi and his mother. The cook killed and ate the seaman, then killed Pis mother, eventually Pi killed and ate the cook. In the end, Pi gets his new life and has a happy ending.Part

11、3：Truth of the story You may regard it as a miraculous story.however, you will find something unusual if you watch the movie carefully.Let me show you 3 scenes which are worth pondering.Scene 1:The orangutan came to the lifeboat by sitting on the floating bananas.But the banana can not float in fact

12、.Scene 2:Tens of thousands ofmeerkats live on the cannibal islands which Pi found in theJourney.But the meerkat lives in desert .Scene 3:Pi told a second story when the japanese investigators asked for the truth.The second story is cruel but much more close to the truth. Here comes the analysisAccor

13、ding to the two stories, we can find some relationships between them that every animal represents a person.The seamanThe cookPis motherPis barbarityPis humanityI am sure that most people have realised that the second story is more like the truth. But we would rather to believe the first story.Howeve

14、r, I have to list something unreasonable in the second story.Suspicious point1:“and mother held on to some bananas and made it to the lifeboat” PiIn fact, banana can not float.Suspicious point 2:“he(the cook) threw her(Pis mother) body overboard” PiThey were short of food terribly at that moment .wh

15、y did the cook throw his “food” away?Now, we need to think over the realness about the second story!Maybe you have noticed that the two points both relate to Pis mother.After all, What happened to Pis mother?Let me show you some detail scenes from the movie The overall view about the cannibal island

16、s. It looks like a lying woman.Let me show you some detail scenes from the movie The plants of the cannibal islandslook like humans blood vesselsand fiber .Let me show you some detail scenes from the movie The water on the cannibal islands turned to acid at night.Just like gastric acid.conclusionThe

17、 cannibal islands is Pimother .Pi ate his mothers body for his life. And it is the truth.Horrible, unbelievable, terribly cruel.How do you like LIFE OF PI now? If you think that you have got the whole idea of the movie and stop here, you will miss the meaningful essence.Part 4： EnlightenmentI believ

18、e there are a thousand LIFE OF PI as well.Let me show you some analysis first to help you find out your LIFE OF PI. There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples eyes. William ShakespeareFirst, there are many transitions in LIFE OF PI.For instance, Pi is a vegetarian ,but he had to feed on meat

19、 (even the humans body) when he was terribly hungry.Pis attitude to religious belief.Pis attitude to the tiger.Second, Lotus flower and the lord Vishnu appeared frequently in the movie. In Hinduism, both of them means the source of all things.VishnuLotus flower Third, the movie is filled with a lot

20、of suggestive words. If god is so perfect and we are not Why would he want to create all this? Why does he need us at all? young PiAll you have to know is that he loves us. PriestSuggestion:Things are not perfect need love either.Science can teach us more about what is out therebut not what is in he

21、re. Pis motherSuggestion:Nothing could always be helpful.On ship, gravy is not meat. Is taste. the seamanSuggestion:Things will change when the surrounding changes. Faith is a house with many rooms. older PiBut no room for doubt? the writerOh, plenty. On every floor. Doubt is useful. It keeps faith

22、a living thing. older Pi Suggestion:Doubt is useful .As far as I concerned, the author and the director want to tell us that everything is changing. They are changing with time and surroundings, we really cant define them precisely. So, maybe its time for us to doubt it if we used to a so-called “ac

23、curate concept” to something. Just like Pis life in the movie, it was his barbarity saved his life in trouble not his faith！ we should not only try to get along with all the things in our lifebut also try to rely on them, even thank them, whatever it is dark or light, good or evil. In which Way weCan have a happy ending like Pi had. My LIFE OF PIPart 5：Beautiful views & meaningful words Lets look back the beautiful views and the meaningful words in the movie. And offer the most sincere thanks to the brilliant dire