Life of Pi revisited

Umm... guess what.. Life of Pi is being made into a movie. And by none other than Manoj 'Night' Shyamalan! It's a strange tale being adapted by a director who's known for telling strange tales. In case you have missed my previous ramblings about Pi, it's the extremely strange story of a boy, Piscine 'Pi' Patel, collector of religions and lover of animals who leaves his hometown Pondicherry in India to emigrate to Canada. His father who owns the local zoo sells the inhabitants to zoos around the world and departs with his family and a cargo of wild animals to Canada, but fate has it otherwise and 'Pi' finds himself adrift in the ocean in a lifeboat with the supremely enjoyable company of an orang-utan, an injured zebra, a hungry wolf and a 400 pound Bengal Tiger!

Soon nature has it's way and the wolf makes a nice dinner out of the zebra and the orang-utan, while the tiger shows the wolf its place (in the tiger's belly) so that our hero is left with the tiger for company. A strange tale indeed! It gets stranger as 'Pi' spends nine months on the ocean with the tiger without becoming another dinner, using his intelligence and knowledge of the ways of the tiger! Yann Martel concludes the story in a stranger fashion where 'Pi' narrates an alternate (and boring) story to officials when he reaches land and you are left wondering which tale is true, or whether either one of them is the true one.

I can't wait to see how Shyamalan adapts this tale.

[If you love the magic realism you find in Life of Pi, read Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. It's one of the most superb books ever written!]