New Contest!! Movie Time! || Life of Pi

Hello friends!!! I hope you're doing all great today. Greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭

I am delighted to have come across another great contest in this wonderful community of Steem Geography initiated by our good friend @belenguerra @worldgeography. As always, this community has been a constant inspiration to write, to share about the Earth, about the things unique to each and every country, our culture and traditions. And today for our week's contest, I am also excited to share about this movie which I consider as one of my favorites. It's called Life of Pi.

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Life of Pi is based on Yann Martel's novel and directed by Ang Lee. It is a story of a young man who survives a shipwreck and months in a lifeboat with a large Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

Pi's family owns and runs a zoo in their hometown in India. When he is a teenager, his family decides to sell the animals and immigrate to Canada on a cargo ship. A terrible storm occurs during the voyage. The next morning, he finds himself in the company of a zebra, a hyena, and an orangutan named Orange Juice. Hiding beneath the canvas of the lifeboat, is the Bengal tiger, Richard Parker. The hyena wounds and eats the zebra, then goes after the orangutan. Orange Juice, the orangutan puts up a good fight, but the hyena succeeded in killing her. Richard Parker finally makes himself known by killing and devouring the hyena. Now it's only Pi and Richard Parker survive on the lifeboat.

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How Pi and Richard Parker survive in the Pacific Ocean makes up the rest of the movie. Pi was able to find ways how to feed himself and the tiger using the provisions stored in the lifeboat, inventing ways to catch fish and store water to drink. He tries different ways of survival options and thinks that he must tame the tiger. Although he is unable to fully domesticate and train Richard Parker, by blowing a whistle and rocking the lifeboat enough to make the tiger seasick, Pi is able to overmatch him and secure his own territory on the lifeboat.

Richard Parker and Pi eventually discover an island, which is made entirely of trees and fresh water. However, Pi makes a dreadful discovery that causes them to depart the island. Thinking he has found a fruit-bearing tree, Pi peels back the layers of a piece of fruit to find that it contains a human tooth. The island is a carnivorous being, consuming everything that lives on it. Pi and Richard Parker return to the lifeboat and continue sailing the ocean.

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As time passes floating adrift, finally Pi and Richard Parker arrived in the shores of Mexico. Both of them are too weak to move. But then, Richard Parker slowly takes his steps away from Pi and runs into the wild and is never seen again. Pi cried loudly as he was abandoned by Richard Parker, which he considered his friend. Pi was rescued by the village people.

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What hits me the most is Pi's famous line when Richard Parker, the Bengal tiger just left him without saying goodbye. "I suppose, in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go. But what always hurts the most...is not taking a moment to say goodbye." If you are Richard Parker, will you have the guts to say goodbye or will you just leave just like how Richard Parker left Pi, leaving without saying goodbye?

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This movie is about choosing to believe in the impossible, in choosing to fight than to give up, in choosing to have faith and keep it, and most importantly, to reflect and believe in God in all our circumstances. God is always our safe harbor, our refuge from the storm and our island of salvation.

That's it for now my friends. Thanks for dropping by.

Always,
Rose