Ark - Page 12

Bee re Pi - sorry came back to this thred a little late !

Yes, I believe when I read the book I was struck by the
parallels with the Ark story;  I think the author wanted us
to see that ?

Did seeing the film help with the question about the de-
salination process ?

Hundmutter: Well, not exactly. But I realized, that is the least of our worries, as the fresh water would be falling from the skies for at least 40 days and nights! Much more pressing problems would need tending to. ​ But I would imagine one could make some sort of condensation collection contraption from some form of viscera. They'd have to had increased the animal quota for a few species, but I don't see that as a problem. Those feeder animal numbers will only go down the longer they float.

Yes, in the movie, I am reminded however, the storyteller's claim, that it would be a tale to make one believe in a God, didn't quite work for you! LOL  What I just love is that this kid's father, was a die hard atheist. And Pi, the god loving teenage boy, searched out mentors for the religions of Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, and was okay with practicing all three at once! Extraordinary! And the ending, well, I can't just give it all away, the symbolism in the symbolism.

I do remember, when the book came out there was something I read about a real family that survived at sea for weeks on end, and they used that contraption. As well as the mom who was a nurse, figured out how to hydrate her family with enema's. I forget how she managed that one! 




 

I saw the movie.....it was...ok.

Marlboro man............lol

You didn't appreciate the ocean scenes and the starry night infinities? The prospect of being only a speck adrift, utterly alone except for the unwelcome company of a Bengal tiger, and yet beneath you is the water; the vessel of the teaming world being lived below the surface just going on with, or without you? The variety, the sizes, the purpose that endures. The Japanese shipwreck of a tomb for his family. Oh, well, I liked how it carried over into the floating island scene, too, with the nocturnally acid-changing liquid, right on down to the skeletons of all that was left. 

And I love how the tiger's name is Richard Parker because of paperwork error. And how Pi determined his own identity with his classmates and teachers. And I guess anything with a swimming pool, and well, he was named after a French swimming pool, of all things! I know so many swimming pools, I feel I can relate. LOL
 

Enemas ?  On a makeshift boat ?  On water ? Gahhh !!!

Y'know, my brother was much more into comparitive
​religious studies than I ever was ... but he's still growed
up just as much an atheist as his big sis.

You have reminded me that the claim that the story
would 'make me believe' was the thing I hated most about
that book !  I still might watch the film though - saw a bit
of it on tellys for sale in Tesco's the other week, and the
photography looked brilliant.


You know swimming pools with names ?  Your  name ?

(Hasn't swimming pools and salt taken us full circle to an earlier
thred ?)  Lol.

I remember a scene from Never Cry Wolf where he falls through the ice, alone in this endless wilderness and the only witness to the sight and sound was a hare, and a crow off in the distance.
Then the moon scene on the mountainside.
Puts things in perspective I think, the part you play in nature.
By just being there he cost the lives of the wolves he had come to know and understand so well, man was the problem, not the wolf.

I guess it's the same as an ocean but not as boring.

 

Sounds life something my wife would enjoy, while I'd just be along for the ride.  Whereas I thoroughly enjoyed the allegorical "The Grey", she was almost off-put by its foreboding theme. 

Carlin: I don't think I've seen "The Grey"? I'll have to look it up. 

Hundmutter, 
No one has felt inclined to name a pool after me, yet. I suppose there is still time? Any way, what I meant was, since I've been to so many swimming pools, I can 't help but have a personal "swimming pool" rating system. And when you find the ultimate pool experience, it is a transcendental experience. That's the part his father experienced, that I was relating to.

Moons,
Actually, the part you would have liked seemed to have been left out of the movie. And, if you think survival depending on a starving Bengal tiger is boring, well that kind of just makes you impossible? Any way, in the book, there was this floating, reeking, mass of putrefied garbage that was encountered by Pi, traveling the currents with him at one time. It was obvious to me what this gargantuan flotsam and jetsam of modern life was meant to provoke. Pretty much what you always bemoan about the planet. It would work so much better without us. 

And the sea turtle capture and feasting, that wasn't in the movie, either. 

Oh, and didn't you even like the end a little bit, at all? The fact the Japanese insurance adjusters just would not, could not accept his story as truthful experience! The reworking of the story was brilliant. The circular insistence for the familiar had to be satisfied!

No bee you misunderstood me I think about the ocean compared to the Arctic and what I called boring.

Once more into the fray.........., the grey was kind of a disappointment for me.
Into the last great fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day..........


 

I hadn't read the book, or known anything about it when I watched it, I was expecting to take it at face value, until I realized what was really stalking him, what stalks us all.