Review: Ang Lee’s ‘Life of Pi’ is a Wonderful, Visual 3D Masterpiece

A boy and his tiger. Or rather, a boy and the tiger. The impossible, unbelievable, incredible story of Piscine Patel and Richard Parker as brought to life on the big screen. It was Ang Lee who decided to adapt Yann Martel’s novel of a story recalled to him by Mr. Patel, about the time he was stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific for over 200 days with no one else besides a tiger. The story is known as the Life of Pi and it documents the miracles, and hope, that exist in this world. Lee adapted the “unadaptable” into a beautiful visual spectacle and 3D masterpiece, utilizing every trick in the book to make us believe in Pi and his story. Life of Pi, similar to the novel, is framed within the context of the author, Yann Martel, meeting an adult Pi Patel in Canada, where he …