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What do you want from me: Theres atigeronstage!
Were here for the tiger, folksand yes, this tiger is pretty cool.
Its a pity that hes stranded in a story awash with platitudes.
Pi and his family intend to relocate their family zoo from Pondicherry to Canada and capsize somewhere outside Manila.
Somehow, he makes it to Mexico.
My story willmakeyou believe in God, Pi announces to his interlocutors early on.
I cant say it did, but it did reinforce my faith in puppetry.
You end up rooting for catastrophe to hit sooner.
Pi himself is one of those good to be true super-special boy protagonists.
Like many of the sentiments inLife of Pi, thats boldly, vaguely true enough.
Best to take the plays cue and focus less on the people and more on the charismatic megafauna.
Theres no sign of the tiger at first.
This being a survival tale, Pi also has to kill the turtle.
Theres more heft in that gesture than in any ofPis more self-conscious moralizing.
The expressions both menacingly predatory and as approachable as a housecat.
Who would say no to the one with animals, especially when the animals look like this?
