The Life of Pi: How Do You Explain Those Shining Whales?

If the movie had been a guy with a spear VS Tiger in a boat in the middle of the ocean for 2 hours, then all of my money in the bank. But that didn't fucking happen. When I really think of it, I don't see a point to the story, hahaha.. Who's going to give me back my 2 hours and 6 minutes? Only thing I took with it is don't be friends with a tiger. And there is NO tiger. I hate the fact that they kill a whole fucking Zoo to tell the story of a boy who got so seasick he thought he was a tiger. Pi didn't say on the movie that he eats anyone. But he can't handle the truth that he ate his family to survive, so he created a fantasy world to coop with that fact. Pi doesn't just see shining whales. He see shining everything all the way down to bottom of sea. He see stars and universe. The sun and sky and storms and fishes are all beautiful. These are all God's revelation for him. Yeah, all that shit was magic but the glowing water was phytoplankton. This movie really shows how religion is for the insane.

Many people said that whole point of the movie was a religious propaganda, through and through. It was not what bothered me the most. It didn't matter what was true. The movie is equating religion as some form of escapism. How is that even remotely pro-religion? Faith contributes to the main character surviving an experience and effects how he derives meaning from it. The events in the story being an allegory for human is bullshit. The only point to the horrible story was to demonstrate to the audience that if given two stories where the consequences are identical, we pick the one we like better. Why that means anything I don't know. My best guess has been that we live our lives, and whether or not you believe in God is in your life story, the events are the same. So which one do you like better? :)

The whole point of the movie is that when people don't know something, they seem to tend to believe that which is the more interesting story. The movie examines how humans tend to irrationally do a sort of reverse Occam's razor. The guy never says which one he believes, just which story he likes better. There is a huge major point in the second story that doesn't get enough attention: According to that story, Pi is a murderer and a cannibalist. And he ate his mother. These are about the biggest taboo in all society. You don't just walk away after saying things like that. After saying this, the relationship between the speaker and the listeners is changed. Now how do those two Japaneses and the Canadian face him? Personally I don't think I can continue the conversation after hearing this, unless I laugh it off and say "you must be joking!" or something. That's how I see these listeners' answer. They now know that this Pi before them is a cannibal. For politeness they choose not to calling him out. They choose the tiger story for politeness. What I find funny, is that the act of eating family members is prevalent even in ancient Greek mythology, as a way of explaining the world. Chronus ate his children right after they were born to stop them overthrowing him.

Here is the distinction between Fight Club and Life of Pi: The Life of Pi utterly centered around God and spirituality, and Fight Club is completely centered around nihilism, primalism, and masculinity. Spirituality is a personal and mysterious thing that every individual have. Spirituality is a small part of religion. Religion includes Spirituality but is not limited to it. Religion includes habits, rules, culture and politics, and even institution. In this the Life of Pi, there is no religious institutions and there are some brief mentioning of religious idea, and are lots of ideas about spirituality. With inner peace comes the possibility of laziness. With the tiger (or his darkside) tamed, he had a chance to rest, but you cannot stop there or you will never achieve greatness. But yeah, If my animal aspect was manifested into a tiger then it might change the meaning of my story.

Stories provided by religion sound like silly made up stories but it is only told to you this way because the reality is too harsh and brutal for you to accept. So God gives you a more palatable version of the story but the point and result of the stories is the same either way. So eat up the piles of shit in the Bible, if it sounds like bullshit, its just God being nice. You can describe anyone's life story with or without God just as you can describe any story with or without fantastical elements that pretty much have the same point. And Pi's dad is right: the whole religion thing is made up by men and it keeps India in the dark.

I would not take this movie to that much heart so all I have to say about this movie is that it is a pretentious piece of work covered with beautiful cinematography; which is what Ang Lee is "usually" known for. But as for watching this movie, it is long and pretentious. This is just going to be a slow year for Academy Awards and Oscars. Which movie do you guys think that will win best movie on Oscar? For me this one or Miserables. The best thing about Life of Pi was the compelling love story with that girl at the beginning. I was moved. The Indian part of the movie is great. A story set in India without Bollywood musicals. :)

The Raid Redemption

It is a brilliant Indonesian action movie. A similar plot to the new Dredd movie- fighting way up a huge building to fight a big boss. Fighting coreography (Pencak Silat style) is as always immaculate. Every other time the cops have fist fight it's because they've run out of ammo which is made very obvious. 

The Raid (Serbuan Maut)

The last  2 vs 1 fight is ridiculous. The Duo (Iko Uwais and Donny Alamsyah) just tanked too much that the fighting even stay interesting past the first two minutes. They are not supposed to be superhuman, but they look like they are Superman and Jet Li combined. Mad Dog (Yayan Ruhian) really lived up to his name, guy just would not stop, he gets tossed around like a ragdoll then is back in your face seconds later. I like it when MD kills the commander guy because MD is a psychopath who prefers beating people to death than shooting them. 

Even fighting for life, human body have some limits not so far down the road. A few hard punchs or kicks that hit put you down no matter who you are. More so when guys are the same weight class more or less. Its not boxing gloves I am talking about. Its a fist made of bone that crashes at high speed against your defenseless skull. Not that the movie is meant to be realistic anyway, since everyone involved in the story just so happens to be a martial arts master.

People who follow the news feel like this every day

In a world of animals it's only the most ruthless who survive. It's been proven time and time again. The repercussions for those who don't fight is a hollow existence. I have read the articles about animals using simple tools to make their tasks easier. I realize that all animals have the ability to reason; at least to some degree. Humans are the only animals that can reason to such a degree; in the same way that cheetahs are the fastest runners, and that giraffes can reach higher than any other.

The sad truth is, that those of our ancestor, that weren't violent aren't really our ancestors because they were killed by the violent ones. So it's human nature (all of the animal's world actually) to kill and exploit the other guy. There's little we can do about it. My dream is to find an occupation that enables me to live away from it all and not follow the media. The only point I was trying to make is that we have developed technologies due to our incredibly superior intellectual abilities and capacities. I realize the aggression and emotional, psychological displays are observed often in other species, but no other species has the capability to understand calculus, no matter how we tried to have them understand.

Humans and animals have the same biological demands, but the difference between humans and animals is the fact that we have the capacity to demolish mountains, destroy the world by pressing a single button, bend our genetic code, alter the biological functions of our bodies originally intended by nature, and more. No other animal is capable of this. Do you see cows building guns? Do you see chimps erecting skyscrapers?

At the end of the day when I looked at things like rape or genocide up close they never lacked humanity; on the other hand, they were usually tremendously human acts that revealed the depth of the connections between people and their human agency, and no matter how much I think about it, there's nothing more meaningful than that spark of agency, that will and intent perhaps more animal than human yet something I'd throw away my humanity for in a second.

If we are, it's because people sit around pissing and moaning about how terrible things are without doing anything. The world doesn't change overnight, so don't expect to wake up one day to rainbows shooting out of people's asses. If you want to make the world a better place then find one problem that you as an individual can actually help with and apply yourself. You don't demand the world's problems be fixed, you go out and offer to help fix them.