A ship that is carrying Pi's family sinks in a storm. Pi is stranded on a lifeboat with only a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena, and a fierce tiger named Richard Parker. The hyena kills both the zebra and the orangutan and is about to attack Pi when Richard Parker kills the hyena. Pi is then left with just Richard Parker in the lifeboat. Pi is afraid of Richard Parker and they spend many days at sea before Pi and Richard Parker bond.
Pi eventually washes ashore at Mexico. Richard Parker jumps out of the lifeboat, and disappears into the jungle without looking back. Pi is still distraught by the lack of closure he had with both his family and Richard Parker. He tells the author who wants to write the book that the insurance agents will not believe his story about the tiger.
There is then a flashback to Pi in the hospital room, with the same insurance reporters. He recounts a very different story to them, in which there were 4 survivors in the shipwreck -- Pi, Pi's mother, a cook, and a boy. The cook was evil and eventually ate the boy out of hunger. The cook killed Pi's mother and Pi then killed the cook. We see that Pi's eyes fill with tears when telling this story.
The current, now married Pi then asks the writer which story he believes. The writer says he will write about the tiger story, but mentions the similarities between the "real" story and the "tiger" story. He says that the zebra was the boy, the hyena was the cook, the orangutan was Pi's mother, and Pi was the tiger. Pi is reflective but evasive about which story is really "true." It is left up to you the viewer to decide which story of Pi's to believe.
Pi eventually washes ashore at Mexico. Richard Parker jumps out of the lifeboat, and disappears into the jungle without looking back. Pi is still distraught by the lack of closure he had with both his family and Richard Parker. He tells the author who wants to write the book that the insurance agents will not believe his story about the tiger.
There is then a flashback to Pi in the hospital room, with the same insurance reporters. He recounts a very different story to them, in which there were 4 survivors in the shipwreck -- Pi, Pi's mother, a cook, and a boy. The cook was evil and eventually ate the boy out of hunger. The cook killed Pi's mother and Pi then killed the cook. We see that Pi's eyes fill with tears when telling this story.
The current, now married Pi then asks the writer which story he believes. The writer says he will write about the tiger story, but mentions the similarities between the "real" story and the "tiger" story. He says that the zebra was the boy, the hyena was the cook, the orangutan was Pi's mother, and Pi was the tiger. Pi is reflective but evasive about which story is really "true." It is left up to you the viewer to decide which story of Pi's to believe.
He should be the student of Master Ip
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