Movies (Ratings, reviews)

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It is the same scene, but its no longer just one scene, it takes up several chapters (and i believe multiple days) since Pi is too weak to walk in the book, you don't question the setting.
It also doesn't style for dialog for most of it, large portions are Pi telling a story in the same manor as before, so the movie should have had scenes for those portions. But it would have been hard to hav a man having his leg cut off and then kept alive in agony for days. Eventually being gutted for fish bait, all while a mother and child watch. And than show a boy stabbing him to death, then later contemplating if he should have kept the body on board so that he could have eaten him; as a PG set of scenes.

I meant that in the book you could imagine the scenes of his mother and the rest in the boat as he told the story
In the movie you can still imagine it as he tells the story but its a movie they should show scenes like that rather then keep it on him in the bed

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On multiple occasions (twice) he goes through the thought process for eating his own feces, and then for eating Richard Parker's. each takes up about 5 pages. (he dosn't keep it down, but he tries)
But a lot of time is spent on the topic of eating, what you're willing to eat, how disgusting some things become, how tolerable others are.
The scenario is R rated also, you're picturing yourself in a boat covered in piss, shit, blood, urine, and dead animal parts. The only time when he is ever able to clean it is when he gets to the island.
All the animal scenes are graphic also, the initial one with Richard Parker, when Pi has to watch him rip art a goat.
The zeebra on the boat is kept alive for days by the Hyena, (cook vs sailer) the entire boat is covered with blood and guts from it, and Pi has to listen to its/his screams for two+ days.
Pi's a vegetarian and he's having to eat, gut, and dissect for bait, all sorts of animals.
Also, on 2-3 occasions Pi decided he's going to die, and each occasion as the reader you're like "yeah, death is going to be a lot better than this"
Also, when he's finally found on the beach, the people that find him dont want to carry him because of how badly he smells.

Yeah i figured in the book the boat would have been filthy, it was too clean in the movie
And i dont know if eating feces wouldve made the movie better, i think the raw fish was good enough
But yeah like i said they didnt show his suffering well enough

Pat1487 wrote:

Yeah i figured in the book the boat would have been filthy, it was too clean in the movie
And i dont know if eating feces wouldve made the movie better, i think the raw fish was good enough
But yeah like i said they didnt show his suffering well enough

Yeah, that was the only major flaw, i was way too critical.
Also, In fact, in a way it makes sense they made it PG and eliminated the suffering.
Since part of the idea of the story is showing how this boy, who was handed this horrible horrible situation, is able to then (not suppress) but create a parallel story, be aware of both the real events and the fabricated ones, and use this dichotomy to help him deal with his life.
I shouldn't have judged the movie so harshly for only showing the pretty version (Even if in the book the suffering comes through even in the pretty version).

Pat1487 wrote:

And i dont know if eating feces wouldve made the movie better

Well, when you say it like that it just sounds ridiculous doesn't it.