Roger Ebert's review of "Life of Pi." An excerpt:
Ang Lee's "Life of Pi" is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery. Inspired by a worldwide best-seller that many readers must have assumed was unfilmable, it is a triumph over its difficulties. It is also a moving spiritual achievement, a movie whose title could have been shortened to "life."
2 comments:
Ebert is right. When I read the book about nine years ago I never imagined it could become a film. In fact, the opening was so convoluted I didn't bother to recommend reading the book to anybody because it took an exercise of the will for me to get past the opening chapters.
But like so many other rewards in life, the reading experience was well worth the opening challenges. The effect of both the book and the movie (I don't want to seem overly dramatic, but...) is nearly scriptural.
It's PG but not a film for children. Pre-teens and above should be okay. It's 3D but one soon forgets about that, lost in the narrative in a way that books and films rarely achieve. This is a must-see movie. If you don't like it, blame me.
John,
I read the book and had the same feeling as to whether it could ever be made into a movie.
After seeing the regular, not the 3D, version, I believe it is an instant classic.
Michael
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