Atheists & Agnostics

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts) Wed Apr 1, 2015, 12:35 AM Apr 2015

Finally watched 'Life of Pi'.

Watched it with my kid. Kind of kicking myself. I don't think he really grokked what the message was really about, or what 'god' is supposed to be. Essentially the movie is just Noah's Ark really.

'Oh god, i'm not worthy I submit to you, saaaaave me' for reasons, apparently special pleading, everyone but him dies. Yippee. What a wonderful lesson.

The visuals were pretty good though.

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Finally watched 'Life of Pi'. (Original Post) AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 OP

I liked how all the animals were really people from the boat LostOne4Ever Apr 2015 #1

I couldn't tell if that was the point or not. AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 #2

I got the impression that one story was real and the other fake LostOne4Ever Apr 2015 #3

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Finally watched 'Life of Pi'. AlbertCat Apr 2015 #6

Just want that hour and a half of my life back. :D AtheistCrusader Apr 2015 #7

LostOne4Ever

(9,589 posts)

1. I liked how all the animals were really people from the boat

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Original post)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 12:51 AM

Apr 2015

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]That he was so traumatized by what happened that he had to pretend the occupants of the boat were all animals.

But the message at the end sucked. Telling people it better to live a lie than face the reality of what one has done is a horrible horrible message. Not surprising they try to apply it to god. Just another bad reason to reject reality and the truth to accept the pretty fantasy.

If they would have forced him to accept what really happened on the boat, to his mother, and what he did in retaliation it could have been better and had deeper meaning. A real waste imho.

Totally agree about the visuals. Too bad the movie bankrupted the studio that made them.[/font]

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)

2. I couldn't tell if that was the point or not.

Reply to LostOne4Ever (Reply #1)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 12:57 AM

Apr 2015

Seemed as though he fabricated that story to appeal to the investigators.

The zebra was a bit convenient though, wasn't it?
The whole thing was a confusing mess.

LostOne4Ever

(9,589 posts)

3. I got the impression that one story was real and the other fake

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #2)

Wed Apr 1, 2015, 01:54 AM

Apr 2015

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]And he refused to tell which was which so that he could make some dumb point about god.

If I remember correctly (sorry its been a while) he said something along the lines of this to the investigators: [/font]

In both stories the boat sank, I lost my family, and I survived weeks at sea when everyone died. In one I survived by ordinary means. In the other I had an incredible adventure. If the outcomes are the same why not choose to believe the more fantastic tale? So goes it with god.

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]Or something like that.

I took it as another version of Pascal's wager. Why choose reality (the animals represented the survivors) when you can choose the happy fantasy (the animals on the boat). Life sucks if there is a god or not, why not believe there is a god?

Which was the point of the story. At the very beginning they said it was supposed to be a story that would make anyone believe in god, when in fact it was just a very convoluted version of Pascal's wager.[/font]