Let me cut straight to the chase: Life of Pi is one of the best films this year.
The Ang Lee directed adaptation of the 2001 Man Booker Award-winning novel by Yann Martel lives up to the lofty standards set up by its literary counterpart.
Life of Pi tells the story of 16 year old Piscine Patel (more commonly known as Pi), who is shipwrecked at sea with the company of a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker.
I read the book a couple of months ago and was pleased to see that the film does not deviate much from the novel. But since film is a visual medium, Ang Lee cleverly maximises the visual imagery of the novel that transforms the simple tale of a boy lost at sea into a spectacular cinematic journey.
