i A-D-O-R-E-D it!

not every bit of it. i agree with you on many points of your review. maybe, i might say, everything.
yep! this time is really everything.
i found, here and there, slightly annoying the interventions from the “present”, the adult pi end the writer. and, moreover, i found that those very interventions were being dropped into the story at too uneven moments. i mean by that,for example, there is a long part of the film where the two of them disappear, then reappear again, and i had almost forgotten about them, so i felt as if i had been abruptly awaken back to reality.
also, the writer is bland, lame. yet the character works exactly for this very reason : he is an average WASP, not grasping much about certain aspects of life tha tonly a person cominig from a different culture can bring up to tha table in an understandable way for him to get them. my interpretation, of course. i don’t expect anyone to agree with it. less than anyone mr lee or mr martel.and maybe, by saying this, i am confirming what you wrote in your review : everyone will find his/her own interpretation, his/her own way into this film, to bring back home something that is sincerely personal and profound.

then, hats off to mr lee for having been able to present to the screen an aspect of life that is so very difficult to show : life’s contradictions.
an example : when the ship is sinking, the images we see on the screen are simply outstanding! it is something so big that cannot be grasped all at once.
yet, step back a second and you realise that the situation is terrible. awful! pi’s family is dying in that gigantic metal coffin.
in a very respectful way, i felt that mr lee was simply showing something that may happen, without any moral judgement pending on the situation.
it takes a huge dose of humility to let us, the audience, free to make our own ideas up about such life’s events. a family destroyed in a matter of a few minutes. but the way it all happens is so surprising. what can one say? actually, is there anything to say?!? certain events can only be lived and not told. at least, they can be described, but leaving, indeed, any moral judgement aside.
like in spielberg’s “empire of the sun”, when the kid runs away from the camp and is witnessing the dropping of the first a-bomb on hiroshima. the images are magical. only later we find out what that light actually was about.
and spielberg has been wise enough not to tell us before, to avoid the formation of any possible judgement in us, so that we might almost experience that event like the people that were there. (luckily, not fully : i admit i thank God for not having been exposed to any such explosion in my life.let’s keep our feet on the ground.)
maybe, it is simply too big to say anything about it. like life itself.

all of this said : i have been with my eyes stuck to the screen as i didn’t do in ages!
yes, this film is definitely a feast for the eyes. maybe, a real celebration!
i think the last time i watched a film with such a wondeful feeling of being a kid being astonished in front of a marvellous show for my senses was when…
…i was a kid!
it must have been “E.T.”!!
no, maybe certain parts of “fantasia 2000″ and also, here and there, “avatar”.
but definitely not an entire film, like it happend today, from beginning to end.
i ddin’t mind at all the first 30 minutes, come to think. i honestly feel that they really made sense to the story – pi’s growing up and also the love story. it all adds to the whole picture and helps us getting closer to him as a human being, not simply a story’s character.

i so much long to watch it again. (PI – but also E.T., to be fully honest!)
and again!
and again!

and can’t wait for a luxurious dvd version to come out, with plenty of bonuses in it!

til the next!
bye bye and take care!

So one could question whether, given the high expectations developed by the first films, the Hobbit would seem trivial by comparison. For me, a big Tolkein fan, it was fun to see so such a richly resourced attempt to bring Middle Earth to life once again. For me, I wish the whole Silmarillion was put to film; probably take 16 4 hour films!

anyways, glad you still liked it. It’s not the best bond flick but it is one of the top 5. I had my own issues with the film, but still liked it myself. funny, that’s the usual consensus of the film