What a crazy hectic weekend. Friday was a quarterly compliance test at work. Got 83% and cleared (80% was minimum passing, and did I tell you the syllabus was about 140 pages of boring documentation stuff?). Then a client meeting on Saturday, followed by photography class and dance practice for a friend's wedding that went till 1:30 in the night. Sunday last photo class and then saw a movie "life of pi" in the night.
The movie is so brilliantly made. It compels you to think. It is not about a boy trapped in a boat in the ocean with a tiger, it is about a boy and his struggle with his animal instinct and a test of his faith. Two versions of the story are there, you pick your favourite one. The rational ones like me would like to pick the one that is closer to the truth, full of harsh reality and ugly. The ones with faith would choose the "irrational" version (pi is an irrational number, remember), that has hope, that has triumph and that is like a fairy tale.
Once I was presented with the second version through a narration by the boy, I had to look back at the entire story and was amazed at what each little incident represents.
2012 was a year full of nonsensical Bollywood crappy movies like Heroine, Son of Sardaar, Jab tak hai Jaan and one that was an utter disappointment at the end after a brilliant build up (Talash). But there were some good movies along the way too. Gangs of Wasseypur was a pure violent "Noir" movie. It was raw, it was real and it was brut. Barfi was according to me the best love story. Since the lead characters were not "normal", the focus was not on tear-inducing dialogues or melodrama, but on the innocence and the true type of love, the only type of love that can happen between a deaf & dumb guy and a mentally challenged girl. But the best among the ones I saw was Life of Pi.
The movie is so brilliantly made. It compels you to think. It is not about a boy trapped in a boat in the ocean with a tiger, it is about a boy and his struggle with his animal instinct and a test of his faith. Two versions of the story are there, you pick your favourite one. The rational ones like me would like to pick the one that is closer to the truth, full of harsh reality and ugly. The ones with faith would choose the "irrational" version (pi is an irrational number, remember), that has hope, that has triumph and that is like a fairy tale.
Once I was presented with the second version through a narration by the boy, I had to look back at the entire story and was amazed at what each little incident represents.
2012 was a year full of nonsensical Bollywood crappy movies like Heroine, Son of Sardaar, Jab tak hai Jaan and one that was an utter disappointment at the end after a brilliant build up (Talash). But there were some good movies along the way too. Gangs of Wasseypur was a pure violent "Noir" movie. It was raw, it was real and it was brut. Barfi was according to me the best love story. Since the lead characters were not "normal", the focus was not on tear-inducing dialogues or melodrama, but on the innocence and the true type of love, the only type of love that can happen between a deaf & dumb guy and a mentally challenged girl. But the best among the ones I saw was Life of Pi.
