The fantasy drifting of juvenile school: there is a tiger in my heart, smelling the roses.

? In the film, Pai tells two versions of the story: Indian youth Pai runs a zoo at home. Because of the change of business, his father decided to ship animals to Canada for sale and immigrate with his family. Unfortunately, they were caught in a big storm at sea. During the storm, Pai climbed into the lifeboat, accompanied by hyenas, orangutans, zebras and a man named Richard? Parker's adult Bengal tiger. As a result, the youth faction drifted at sea for 227 days. Hyenas kill orangutans and zebras, and tigers kill hyenas and eat their bodies. So, what about Pie and Richard? Parker is a tiger, struggling to survive in the vast sea. Finally, Richard, the tiger that drifted to the coast of Mexico and stayed with him day and night? Parker dropped the pie and walked into the jungle without looking back.

? What we still cannot accept is another version of this story. After being rescued, Pai told another version of the story about a chef, a sailor, a mother and Pai: animals are metaphors, zebras correspond to a Buddhist sailor, hyenas correspond to chefs on cruise ships, and orangutans correspond to Pai's mother. That is Richard? Parker's Bengal tiger sent it by himself. ?

? The sea adventure story full of sunshine and fantasy before suddenly turned into a hellish horror, a bloody and tragic nightmare of cannibalism and murder. The huge psychological gap caused by two different versions of the story is shocking and alarming. These two stories form a metaphor of confrontation, the existence of goodness and evil, beauty and cruelty, animality and humanity, and divinity of human nature.

? Pai tells two different versions of the story, while Japanese investigators and novelists prefer to believe the 1 version. The one with Bengal tiger is because the second dark version of the story is too cruel and bloody. People can accept the killing of the food chain between animals, but they can't face the cruelty of people eating people. No matter which story you believe, we can see the reasons behind your choice to believe or not, whether it reflects your life beliefs and ideas, whether it evokes evil and darkness in our hearts, and perhaps you don't want to face it. But the warmth of the film is that it doesn't directly tell you which is the truth, but gives the audience the right to choose, just as Paizi said when telling it: I can only tell my story. As for what to believe, it's up to you. Indeed, you and I believe differently, which also makes us different. We all live in our own conceptual world.

However, this belief is flexible. The Pais are religious vegetarians in India. They don't like eating on the boat, because the chef refused to provide vegetarian food, but Buddhists from China comforted them that the gravy bibimbap on the boat was not a meat dish. If there was no shipwreck, the Bai family would probably eat meat like Buddhist sailors. Abandoned in the endless sea, the lonely group must give in to their survival instinct and start eating fish. When it is rescued and returned to the real society, it will return to vegetarianism. Our obsession or belief always needs to be deconstructed, refreshed and reconstructed through constant experience, just like those stories that we choose to believe or not.

? The film presents and focuses on the interaction between Bai and the tiger. When Pai first saw this Bengal tiger, he wanted to reach out and feed it. At that time, he believed in animism, and even the fiercest animals had tenderness and soul in their eyes, but his father sacrificed a sheep to present a cruel fact: all you saw in the tiger's eyes was your reflection. At this point, this teenager who has been vague and ignorant about exploring the spiritual world has been hit hard by reality and forced to separate from the "shadow" in his heart. He began to feel that the world was no longer attractive and boring. Until she met her first girlfriend Antie, Antie worshipped the gods through dance and body. In his first girlfriend, he rediscovered a way to communicate with the world spiritually. He envied and longed for such a woman. After being discovered and followed by Ananti, he asked a clumsy question about the lotus handprint: Why is the lotus hidden in the forest? This passage also implies that the lotus wrapped in teeth was discovered in the forest of cannibal island by the late faction. He and his girlfriend went to the zoo to see Richard, a Bengal tiger. Pai said that tigers are spectacular, boastful and ostentatious, and their tone is both worship and ridicule. But Antie just imitated the twist of a tiger's head and told Pai that the tiger was just listening attentively. Antie could understand and readily accept this fierce and dark power in human nature, and Pai showed a long-lost smile. However, the good times did not last long. Because the whole family immigrated, Bai had to face the breakup with his first girlfriend. "I remember the last day, but I don't remember the farewell part." For Pai, separation and farewell have always been his life proposition, just like his final separation from Richard, because without looking back at him, Pai burst into tears, just like his separation from his family. The sudden storm prevented him from saying goodbye to them.

On the vast sea, Pai drifted with this Bengal tiger named Richard. At first, the man and the tiger defended each other and the boundaries were clear. The tiger occupied the lifeboat and put a man on the raft. Pai collects fresh water and catches fish and shrimp, and feeds Richard Parker with all his skills of surviving at sea to ensure his own safety. The cruel reality forced the pie to make a choice: "If you want to live together, you must learn to communicate. Maybe Richard Parker cannot be tamed, but God allows him to be trained. " We must gradually learn to live in harmony with our own shadows and ugliness. Several attempts were made to gain territory on the ship, but all failed. Later, the tiger ate all the food. Driven by desire, he jumped off the boat to find food, but he couldn't get on the boat. However, Pai took the opportunity to control the boat. Originally, he wanted to kill the tiger completely, but in the end, he could not bear to save the tiger from boarding. At this moment, the tiger and the faction have changed from mutual hostility to interdependence, and both are the meaning and motivation of each other's survival, and both are indispensable.

Pai's boat was finally washed up on the beach in Mexico and was rescued. Paek, a Bengal tiger, goes deep into the dense jungle, which represents the human subconscious, that is, after returning to the real society, the cruel part representing cruelty and fierceness must be integrated and buried deep in the subconscious. From the previous confrontation and separation to the final integration of man and tiger, this is a wandering journey of self-exploration and self-growth of the juvenile school, and it is also the growth process of every ordinary person. It is constantly cut off and stopped, and new attempts and experiences are constantly pouring out, until the beauty, goodness and ugliness in human nature blend together and become a self-centered person.

At the beginning of the film, there is a beautiful scene of natural peace and harmonious coexistence of various creatures. Pai was born in the local rule of French India, where there is a romantic atmosphere of France and a mysterious religious atmosphere of India. He was born and brought up in the zoo. His father is a zoo director and his mother is a botanist. His father was cured of polio by western medicine when he was a child. He believes in science, advocates rationality and respects reality. He is authoritative and paternalistic at home. Bai believes in three religions, and parents hold different attitudes towards Bai's religious beliefs. His father hoped that he would face up to the reality and rationally choose his own path instead of blindly following the trend. His mother, on the other hand, gave him more freedom to explore the mind, thinking that science can help us understand the external world, but it can't solve the problems of human inner world. The typical family role orientation of "strict father's loving mother" made Jean Pai's religious belief process gradually integrate into the part of "rationality+spirituality", and sent him to explore the breadth and piety of religious belief, so that he would not be lost and desperate in his later drifting at sea, and was defeated again and again by admiration, gratitude and submission.

? The birth of pie is very interesting. The reptile army delivered the baby. The Bengal monitor lizard in the zoo escaped and was crushed to death by a cassowary. A human was born, but a monitor lizard died. The causal cycle of life is like the name of a pie.

? In the film, the novelist asks about the origin of Pai's name, and Pai tells the story that his dry uncle Francis taught him to swim. His uncle told Pettitte: Drinking water won't kill you, but you will panic. Pai said that his uncle's teaching saved his life. When Pai drifted in the real sea, not only did his uncle teach him swimming skills, but more importantly, he learned how to get along with fear. The name of the pie is taken from the French "Morido swimming pool". My uncle loves to collect swimming pools. Senduo swimming pool is the cleanest swimming pool my uncle has ever seen (the water in the swimming pool is clean enough to make coffee). Bai's father wanted him to be pure-hearted, so he gave him this name. This is his father's idealization and yearning, but it is laughed at by his peers. His classmates nicknamed him "Peeing", and Pai's name changed from a noble, clean and elegant French swimming pool to a smelly public toilet in India. This is the interpretation of peers in the process of socialization.

But in the end, Paizi gave his name a new meaning, π, a mathematical infinite irrational number. For this new self-empowerment, he worked hard behind him and remembered hundreds of digits behind pi. Finally, the students cheered the name of Pai loudly, and Pai also showed a smile of "My name is the master" and a full sense of accomplishment. The repeated iteration of self requires constant efforts to truly get rid of the projection and fetters from parents and society.

? A small family in the French Indian region, after being shipwrecked, only one person was sent to live alone, across the ocean, to a foreign country, and to re-establish a family in a new land. Just like his previous family background, a wife and a pair of children named his son "Ravi". This seems to be another reincarnation, a continuation and cycle of life, as infinite as the name of pi, endless: "How similar the rivers and moons are, endless from generation to generation."

If you believe the second version of the story, then this man-eating island, which looks like a lying female corpse, is actually a metaphor of evil and survival instinct inspired by the faction in despair and hunger. He ate his mother's body, and the dense meerkats on the island symbolized that her mother's body had been stored on the boat, covered with maggots. Richard, a Bengal tiger, ate several fox hairs in one bite as soon as he landed, representing the dark faction and eating maggots from his mother. In the film, as soon as the pie arrives at the floating island, the roots of plants on the water surface are pulled out and eaten. The green and red outside symbolize the blood vessels of the body. The freshwater lake on the floating island can still swim and drink water during the day, but at night it becomes corrosive acid, which is actually the gastric juice that the human body is digesting. At the beginning of the film, the lotus painted by his mother turned into a lotus-like fruit he found on a man-eating island. After delamination, there was a tooth in it, which indicated that his mother had been eaten. The emergence of man-eating island coincided with the moment when Pai and Tiger were caught in a storm and dying. This also shows that in the case of extreme hunger, Bai has no choice but to eat his mother's body to continue his life.

If you choose not to believe the second version of the story, the appearance of cannibal island can also have many metaphors. Cannibal island can be understood as representing mother and death. When Pai experienced a storm and took a breath, he felt that he was getting closer and closer to death. He was ready for death, just like returning to his mother at the beginning of his life. Pai swam to his heart's content in the freshwater lake of the cannibal island, as if he had returned to his mother's womb. Mongoose is a matriarchal group with high reproductive rate, which is also a symbol of motherhood. The hammock built between branches at night is like a baby's cradle, soft, comfortable and warm, as if it had returned to its mother's side. People have an impulse to return to their mother's body in the face of catastrophe. Perhaps death is also a peaceful and quiet way to get rid of it, but there is also a dark malice behind this safety and comfort, just like this man-eating island, which enjoys beauty during the day and evil at night. He picked a lotus-like fruit and peeled it off layer by layer, and found that the inner core turned out to be a human tooth, representing the aggressive teeth wrapped in the lotus representing his mother. The evil and darkness in our self-nature are completely accepted and embraced by our mother. We are attached to this feeling and hope to stay forever, but there are deep hidden dangers in it. The end result of staying in the matrix is loneliness and forgetfulness, and Richard, the tiger representing fear, also realized this hidden danger, so he boarded the boat alone at night and sent a faction that would not come back alive without Richard. Fear is also a force to remind him of progress. He saw Richard, which restored his courage. Even if he dies, he will return to the world. He sent people to leave the man-eating island firmly, with the courage to die. Instead of relying on his mother's fantasy to save himself, he bravely accepted the shadow of self-fear and embarked on the road of self-salvation. So, he reorganized his equipment, returned to the road with fresh water and food, and was finally saved.