# The Life of Pi

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-of-pi/641214>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 16, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-of-pi/641214 "2012-11-16T17:08:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-of-pi/641214/101 "2013-01-15T15:55:18Z")

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I was glad to see the Oscar nominations too. It won’t, and probably shouldn’t, win Best Picture, but it should get a lot of creative technical awards. It easily the most beautiful and visually stunning movie I have seen in a long, long time. One of very few movies that elevates the 3D format to true art. If it doesn’t win Visual Effects, then I’ll stop believing in God. 😃

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**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2013, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-life-of-pi/641214/102 "2013-05-17T04:00:48Z")

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> [@bengangmo](#):
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> I took it quite literally as a “dare”.
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> You don’t believe what happened to me and want the truth? Well here’s a story so unpalatable that you can report it if you dare. What investigator, “wanting to make his boss happy” would dare to open themselves up to a story of one of their employees killing someone and eating them?

But then why align the characters so closely with the “real” animals?

The movie really only works if the 2nd story is the true one.

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