@deanduncan63Saw #LifeofPi. Richard Schickel compares it, productively, to Avatar. Me, I think it’s more Titanic-like, and find therein the problem …
… Consider: huge technical challenges admirably surmounted, but leaving the narrative (or, here, the meta-narrative) sketchy or lumbering …
… The ecumenical mytho-religious stuff is quite stirring in the book. Here it burns much less brightly. Didn’t have their hearts in it? …
… Or perhaps they won the battles they could manage to win. There’s certainly success in that! Still, Ang Lee’s creditable adaptation leaves some runners on the base.
#LifeofPi. Martel’s book is very worthy, very dear. But G.E. Lessing’s take on this subject, ca. 1779, is positively stratospheric. Here’s the stupendous Parable of the Ring …
… from the sublime Nathan the Wise: http://bit.ly/1vM6yoX.