I recently saw Life of Pi, the fact that this coincides with the release of the movie in India, is of course irrelevant. It merely talks about my efficiency in tracking down movies which are guaranteed to be well made and talk about things I don't understand. Things I would like to believe I have the ability to understand but choose to ignore. Except in movies. Watch a movie with the intention of exacting only entertainment and you may take nothing more. Watch it with some higher hope and you may take back the gift of disappointment, in most cases at least. I just don't get why acquiring something as common as faith requires one to be lost at sea with a tiger in tow. If God is as omnipresent as all the religions of the world claim, stories that inspire faith have to be less far-fetched. If someone is already a believer, this story won't change him, if one is not though, an impossible-sounding, unverifiable story by a french-canadian-indian who claims to follow three religions isn't the perfect recipe for change. I am surprised that the dude listening to Pi's story took it seriously. The world is full of convincing story-tellers, with the ability to pay attention to detail. If this dude would have sat his gullible ass on Rowling's couch, he might have spent the rest of his life in search of Hogwarts?
The movie was well made.
And the idea of going on this larger than life journey full of joy, pain, misery, fear, turmoil, change sounds exceedingly appealing. So does the idea of flying fish. But we can't all wait to be on a pre-modern ship floating on stormy sea, can we? We need to find our boat and our CGI tiger and our lifetime supply of food and water cans and get started. If we fail to embark on a journey that tests our knowledge and our faith, how can we ever be at peace? I'm unclear about where I am. I don't know if I'm sleeping, waiting on the overnight storm or searching for my floating island of hope, running short of resilience.
I just know that there's darkness.
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