Throughout life choices are made. People choose whether or not they want to get up and go to work. People choose whether or not they want to have a positive outlook. People choose whether to accept or reject God in their life. In the movie Life of Pi, Piscine (Pi) Molitor Patel’s extraordinary life journey, including the shipwreck, is filled with choices. From the support of his mother, Pi chose to pursue his desire for personal growth when he began to practice three different religions and rejected his father’s rational way of thinking. During the shipwreck, Pi battles between the longing to survive or to die. At the end of the film, he leaves the audience and the writer to decide which story was the better version: the incredible story with …show more content…
As a realistic thinker, I tend to lean towards facts that are comprehensible and direct, something that can be applied in a typical life situation. In some instances, I feel that I compare myself to the Japanese investigators because they actively seek the truth. When the Japanese investigators question Pi about the authenticity of his story with the animals, he argues that there is invention in all “truths” and “facts,” because everyone perceives everything from their own perception and states that there is no absolute truth. In retrospect, I also tend to lean towards ideas when I am moved and guided by God’s grace and presence. At the end of the film, Pi asked the writer which story he preferred. When the writer says he favors the story with the animals and Pi replies, “and so it goes with God,” I think he means to believe in an unbelievable story is to believe in things that defy reason and possibility. Instead of implicating that world religions are a one-stop shop for the truth of God, Pi sets up the two parallel stories to help viewers consider which version they prefer: the one where we make our own path and suffer through the darkness via self-determination, or the one where we are aided by something greater than ourselves, regardless of which version of “God” we may accept. Just as Pi said at the end of the movie, “Life is a story. You can choose your story, but a story with God is the better