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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

left of FAITH


Rarely does a movie come along that makes me reevaluate whether I'm on the right path in my life. Just when I think I've got everything all figured out, something comes along and throws my life a little bit left of the middle. This time around it's the book, Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. I read it in two days and anxiously awaited the for the film version. It's a complex story full of metaphors and complex jargon; a story that seems impossible to translate from the written narrative to a visual one. Directed by Ang Lee and featuring actor Suraj Alarm as Pi Patel, the film version of Life of Pi did something the novel couldn't do - it gives a seamless and vivid portrayal of faith personified. Life of Pi is a story about divine intervention and faith, and of how the two work together to keep us going forward, regardless of the situations we often find ourselves in. It is worth seeing if for nothing more than to remind us all that we are stronger than our greatest fears and even when all seems lost, we can believe that our lives have a purpose much stronger than we ever imagined. Life of Pi inspired me to carry way of this way of thinking into the new year, After all, that's what good ART does: it transforms.
Happy New Year!