"Life of Pi"

Dear Chuck,

I thought Life of Pi even better than Roger Ebert's glowing review: "a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery. Inspired by a worldwide best-seller that many readers must have assumed was unfilmable, it is a triumph over its difficulties. It is also a moving spiritual achievement, a movie whose title could have been shortened to "life."" 

http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121120/REVIEWS/121129995    

My favorite book, Chesterton's "Orthodoxy," holds that life is properly valued when treated as a shipwreck.  Pi walks the talk. 

I recommend seeing Pi in 3D, an opinion shared by Ebert… who generally despises the medium.

I also recommend a theater with a powerfully luminous projector. 

Wynnsong's projector is adequate, but I think Southpoint would be a better choice.

As you may know from the book, Pi is a great story - so well rendered by Ang Lee that there is even an argument to "see the movie before reading the book."

Plus, Lee's techno-humanistic vision is groundbreaking, most remarkably for technology's service of human ends. 

When the movie opens, the "narrator" is interviewing Pi after a friend tells of an Indian scholar with a story that will “make him believe in God.”

Pax,

Alan