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• Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

  In oriental mythology the tiger has extraordinary significance, as protector of small children (tiger hats and tiger shoes are still commonplace), as leader of the spirit on its journey to deeper awareness, as shamanic shape-shifter and as potentially deadly encounter. It represents the Western direction, to which Pi is journying, and responsible adulthood, to which the teenager also aspires. To survive is to collaborate, but also to believe and to grow. Perhaps it takes an Asian director to tease out the enduring mythology of tigers, but it also takes a director who has a special ability to chart the nuances of intimate relationships to make the story of Pi and Richard Parker believable. Ang Lee is perhaps the only director who could have pulled it off, adding a luminously lovely and magical use of 3D so that at times the boat with the boy and the tiger seems to be floating in the mind of a god. Is the tiger real or a metaphor? An aspect of self to be overcome if life is to continue, or a wild animal requiring care and protection from the human who has, however accidently taken it captive? Does it matter? No, of course not. This is a liminal excursion beyond the ordinary, and an exciting and moving adventure, a metaphor, a yarn and a myth.

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  Rangdalion

  Location

  Marrickville

  Date and time

  December 29, 2012, 10:31AM

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