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Life of Pi
TAIWAN · 2012

Life of Pi

Ang Lee
survival spirituality human-animal relationship faith and doubt isolation
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Synopsis

The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

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He mentioned that the film [Life of Pi] had made him think about the silent films of Jacques Tati, “about how you use space, how you frame things, how you move your camera. It’s really just the visual.”

Life of Pi made him think about the silent films of Jacques Tati—about how you use space, how you frame things, how you move your camera. It's really just the visual.

— Ang Lee  ·  Film Comment: 'Ang Lee's 'Life of Pi'' by Graham Fuller
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