Naturally, the booklet has little to say about surviving a shipwreck with a Bengal tiger, but he figures out the basics of that too, patching together a raft that floats outside the lifeboat. Though he has no real skills to speak of, Pi quickly bones up on the essentials with a survival handbook he finds with a few supplies. To survive that long requires something special, and Pi shows us that he’s special indeed.
#LIFE OF PI LIFEBOAT MOVIE#
The movie never tells us how long Pi and Richard Parker are adrift in that lifeboat, but the book on which its based (written by Yann Martel) informs us that they spend 227 days together. And yet Pi believes they float in the cup of God’s hand. Their flare gun is spent, and neither their resources nor resourcefulness can last forever. “Tending to his needs gives me purpose.” This is not friendship, not love.
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“My fear of him keeps me alert,” Pi says. Slowly he trains the tiger, hoping his mastery over the beast will keep him alive.Īnd as the boat floats through days and weeks and months, a bond grows between Pi and Parker. He marks his days on the side of the boat, numbering the sunsets with a knife. Each day for Pi becomes an exercise in survival: finding food, catching rainwater, staying away from Richard Parker’s claws.
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When life shrinks to the space of a lifeboat holding a hungry tiger, it takes on a new character. It is Noah’s Ark in miniature-a lifeboat floating on the skin of the sea when the world has been lost.īuilt for 30, the lifeboat holds two: Pi, a Hindu/Christian/Muslim teen who never got to say goodbye to his girlfriend and Richard Parker, a hungry Bengal tiger who doesn’t care.