Reviewing Movies

And so having read the book through I have rewatched the movie. The book is the work of one man Yann Martel and tells of a sea journey involving a Bengal Tiger and one boy played by a nineteen-year-old that in the movie production took 40,000 people over a year to create. Hard to believe the entire ocean journey was shot in a gigantic water tank. First reaction is, I don’t remember reading that in the book. Whether or not the story makes you believe in God the idea of someone surviving the two years ocean currents would take to carry one across the Pacific in essential solitary confinement is nearly impossible to believe. The tiger.... ?

The shots of the zoo in India are gorgeous. Many of the ocean shots are elegiac, the night shots of the stars in particular. Oceanic fluorescence and luminescence at night are a wonder to behold. The Pacific covers over one third of our planet’s surface and can produce storms with winds of nearly 200 mph and rogue waves capable of eating even the largest ships. Storms at sea make one feel hollow, infinitesimal, powerless. The vastness of this ocean on a calm day as seen from sea level in a lifeboat, mind numbing. All this the movie attempts to reproduce. Should be seen on a large screen but protect your hearing.