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In Case You Missed It #2: Life of Pi Movie Review

This is the segment where I talk about movies pre-2015 that may have escaped the public consciousness in recent years. I'm Logan Tyler Smith, and this is In Case You Missed It. In “Life of Pi”, a young polytheistic Indian loses his entire family in a shipwreck. Stranded on a small boat with a hungry tiger, the young man must learn to survive and to form an alliance with an animal not commonly an ally.  Life of Pi is arguably one of the best movies of 2012, period. It is everything a good movie should be-beautiful, philosophically deep, and visually poetic. The movie raises subjective and non-offensive critiques of religion through the lens of multiculturalism, as the main character is very much of many faiths. This faith is tested many times in the form of an intense, powerful survival story.  It would be a complete understatement to say that the film explores the pure meaning of the phrase “three-dimensional”. This is true not just in terms of a character study, but in