The Island symbolizes "just surviving." Yes, if has food, water, and shelter from the sun... but you need more than this to actually survive. You need community, relationships, love... the true stuff of life. It's like staying in a situation in which you're unfulfilled despite it taking care of all your basic needs... it eats you alive. Youre compelled to take a risk and strive for more.

@MoralofthisStory

Жыл бұрын

I like this. 👍

@PriyanshuYadav-ct1lv

10 ай бұрын

Damn

@sandippaul468

4 ай бұрын

Also need to mate.

@xbacondreamsx4796

3 күн бұрын

That was good

Yann Martel also said he included the island (and, for the book readers, the blind man) because he wanted a story that was increasingly more challenging to believe. He wanted his readers to choose: take a leap and believe in the "better story", even though it challenges reason, or take it as logically as possible and believe the story at the end.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I love reading and listening to his interviews. He is a very interesting person.

@matthewphilip1977

20 күн бұрын

The problem with that is; we can't choose what we believe. Beliefs impose themselves on us. Same with desire. One might desire to believe the God/gods nonsense, but one can't choose to believe it. We can choose to encourage the belief, by reading scripture and praying etc, but not to believe. Try it. Try believing that the Earth is flat. Try believing that Santa is real. Try believing that Life of Pi is a true story.

The island also represents comfort. Every person is a castaway, life is a cosmic shipwreck (Tzimtzum). We may find momentary relief and solace in comfort and abundance, but if we stay for too long in the comfort zone we die.

@saikatchattaraj3

6 ай бұрын

You will die anyway. The meaning is something else.

I feel like Pi actually did land on an uninhabited island and at some point finds the remains of another castaway. Realizing that he'd die alone there he decided to go back out.

@adanalyst6925

Ай бұрын

I agree I think the two options he presents us with isn’t the actual true story

Loved it Kevin. I am amazed at how much thought was put into making this movie ( I should say book ), and how the author was able to tie all these aspects of the story in such a perfect way.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, the book is amazing and then to translate that into a movie that makes sense is another incredible feat.

Can't believe this movie is now 10 years old .. one of my favourites.

The island represents Hindu God Vishnu, depicting God came himself to save him. Because in Hindu texts , VIshnu is shown living in the cosmic ocean, lying in the same manner as shown in the movie.

@TojiFushigoroWasTaken

Жыл бұрын

Lol no its actually the body of his mother. The meerkat are the maggots......the acidic nature at night is pi reflecting after he is repeatedly forced to consume his mother being repeatedly driven to the brink of starvation.

@leviackerman8126

Жыл бұрын

@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken Interesting might be true. But as depicted in movie, he called for God to save him before he saw the island.

@arjunsingh4514

Жыл бұрын

@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken they why he said he could he lived there whole life alone comfortably?

@vidhitiwari1478

Жыл бұрын

@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken lol no He ate the Cook.. Just listen to what he says there, it's quite simple to understand.

@bigwheel9468

11 ай бұрын

@@TojiFushigoroWasTaken well according to the story the cook threw his mother to the sharks so it would have to be the cook

I am truly in awe with both Life of Pi meaning and Island videos. You know how to bring the entire moral of the story to the forefront and make things so easy to be understood. After watching these two videos, I am going to sit down and watch Life of Pi again with this new knowledge. Thank you and please keep aking these videos.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your encouragement!

Because it turns out that nearly everything Pi came into contact with during his journey turned out to be a metaphor or symbolic for something very much concrete and real - I tend to believe that the Island was the same. I personally think the island represents the tranquilizer drug that Pi’s father is injecting into Orange Juice as the boat embarks. I don’t think that scene in the film was an accident - and the director inserted it for a reason so that we could connect the dots back to the metaphor in the end. It is common for items from a wreckage to float along the same ocean path or end up on the same shores. I think the package of tranquilizers somehow floated up to Pi’s boat and he decided to use it as a temporary escape from his physical pain and anguish. But at some point in that high state of mind, he realized that by staying in that magical state….the drug would inevitably consume him and he would die. The worst part being that Pi would technically be slowly consuming himself by partaking in the drug over and over again - to relaxed to push forward and survive his journey. That’s when the animalistic side of him - which wants nothing more than to survive - kicked in and urged him to leave. Waiting on the other side of his high for him. Waiting for him to decide to survive and not escape.

@MoralofthisStory

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting take on this!

@rosjja

Жыл бұрын

wow!

@seandmello3793

Жыл бұрын

the book also has morphine in it

@user-zy3mf7zs7m

6 ай бұрын

bombaclayat

Oh my god this opened my eyes. You are so underrated dude, when I was a kid I didn’t understand this movie at all, and now I wanna watch it again a billion times 😭

Incredible. Thanks. I love this story. You can keep peeling of layer upon layer and there's still more to discover every time. I would add that the island also represents life devoid of spirituality, a state where your physical needs are met, but nothing more. You can live like that a long time, but eventually you will die and dissolve into nothing.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Great comment!

The way you narrate is soooo good. I just finished watching the movie and came here directly, I'm so glad I watched your video. Got my mind blown💯.

@MoralofthisStory

14 күн бұрын

Wow. Thank you for the kind words! I’m glad you liked it.

Kevin, this is beautiful. You are so very gifted at poetically expressing visual concepts. I loved how you shared at the beginning. I believe too that this is death and rebirth. If we are truly living our lives, we will experience at least one extended, long term, horrific event that removes from us, without our consent, everything that we held dear. It is the painful removal of all that no longer resonates with who we are. We didn't ask for it and we don't see it coming. In a way, it is the removal of the multiple deceptions that we have believed about our lives. Lies that we saw as the foundation of who we are. We are challenged during that journey to use our free will: Will we keep going? or will we give up? Spiritually, it is the same as floating in a boat on the ocean. You really don't know where you are going. And all you can do is the next best thing. As all cycles end, God provides you a door, a path, an island. Now it is time to regroup. What do you want? Where are you going? What is important to you? Who is important to you? And like the seasons, the winter ends and the spring begins. And so does your new life.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this beautiful comment and your insights. I am inspired by your words.

@elizabethfontaine3613

2 жыл бұрын

We all have experienced life as we see it but not all of us make the right decisions to guide us down a path of vindication for our so called sins. This story reminds me of poetry that teaches us that we all must come to a cross road, either we take the road traveled by many or the road least traveled and discipline ourselves to honor our spiritual creator and learn to love ourselves and forgive others.

@lilynumber9510

2 жыл бұрын

I miscarried 3 children. The first 2 were over before I even knew I was pregnant. The last I did know about. I took a home test and then went to the Dr for a test to confirm it and also have an ultrasound once it was confirmed. I heard the heartbeat. Then they told me it was ectopic. I had to immediately have surgery to remove it. I didn't know that i'm one of the 10 percent (roughly) of people who don't produce the enzyme that breaks down anesthesia, as I'd never had surgery before. So I was technically/legally dead for a couple of minutes. When I came out of the surgery, I no longer believed in any kind of after life. So I lost my child and the foundation of my faith at the same time. I went into a depression so deep it's hard to explain. I've thought a lot about why the 3rd miscarriage affected me so differently from the other two. I think it's because I had already lost the others before I was even aware of them. With the 3rd, I knew. I had a week to dream of what could be, and hope. And I think I stopped believing in an after life (previously I'd believed in reincarnation) because I just didn't want to have to be here again, didn't want to return to this veil of tears. I wanted to embrace the nothing to avoid the pain. For 6 years I refused to talk about it with anyone. I'm just starting to come out of that space of pain and grief to healing, but that heartbeat still haunts me. What you said really resonated with me, the horrific event. So thank you for that.

@shaktivairahs7755

Жыл бұрын

Lots of blabla and no XP

Insane, the people being portrayed as animals on the boat blew my mind. i love this movie

The island is a symbol of lord Vishnu. As we can see in the starting of the movie when his mother used to recite him lord krishna stories, he had the same grey colour idol of Vishnu in a lying down position which he used to worship at night and sleep- in one scene he touched the feet of that idol at night. If you carefully see the island, it's exactly a replica of that same vishnu idol. That island was a symbol of lord vishnu- the one who creates/preserves the universe by the "day" and destroys/dissolves (just like the fish dissolved in the acidic water) by "night". According to the Hindu texts, day and night are just symbols for the cyclic nature of creation and destruction- a symbol of birth death and rebirth- again a cycle. Before they reached the island, pi and Richard Parker were severely undernourished and he closed his eyes in surrender saying- lord I have had my time. I am ready now. (Ready to come to you). He opens his eyes and sees the island, which represents lord vishnu- a metaphor that he has met god or say reached the culmination of his spiritual journey that started with him losing everything and getting on the boat. There he got the ultimate realisation that all faiths come down to only one reality- birth death rebirth ( like in the beginning of the movie he followed multiple faiths). That's how his spiritual pursuit ended. Then when he left the island he reached the shores of Mexico- a sign that now his journey has indeed culminated.

@MoralofthisStory

11 ай бұрын

I like this.

@bochafish

7 ай бұрын

I like this too. I can't figure out what that phenomenon was that made the tiger go to the boat, and all the meekrats flee. Pi went up in the trees. Any ideas? I watched it for the first time last night.

@ruebenny2001

7 ай бұрын

@@bochafish the animals already sensed what the island was- it provided for you during the day ( like meerkats for Richard Parker and plant roots etc for Pi) and as soon as the sun set, the water became acidic- it dissolved even the bodies of the fishes. This whole phenomenon is mentioned in the Hindu philosophy of creation by the day and dissolution by the night- ofcourse the day and the night are just metaphors for cycles that after creation of the universe comes dissolution and then again creation just like day comes after night and then again after that night, a new day. It's an endless cycle. The animals knew that it was night time, so they tried to flee from the metaphoric "apocalypse" so to speak.

Thanks so much for shedding some light on this pivotal part of the film. Great research and explanation.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Back at it again man with these amazing vids

This is one of the best movies, ever!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loving it Kevin you just made me want to watch it again Who knew a movie a 2 hour video clip could instill so many lessons with each setting there's a lesson 😁🔥 thank you

@CUBE_03s

2 жыл бұрын

I'm writing my English paper today and I'd like to thank you for tipping the scale of my success in it

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know if you get a good grade. I'd be curious if English teachers like my video.

Great job! In-depth research and strait to the point! Keep going sir :)

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your encouragement! It is greatly appreciated.

Great video ! Love this

Thank you for this video, great job.

Oh my this channel is very underrated

Thank you thank you! I almost envied you of this great understanding of this movie. My questions are definitely & satisfyingly fulfilled!! Thank you again!

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

You're very welcome!

Amazing video! Keep it up.

His mom getting killed breaks my heart 😢

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed and so unnecessary.

Wow. I loved this. Thank you.

Great video!!

Well Done. Thank You for doing all of that research on the Hindu 'back stories' if you will. I have seen the film twice but I have read the book four or five times. It is quite uplifting and thought provoking, not just for it's awesome spiritual insights, but for the vignette's about animals. I have always 'chosen the better story' so I was intrigued by your 'other story' that may or may not support him having actually committed those atrocities. I think the film , with it's insert shots of his parents interacting with the cook and crew actually leans towards the Cook/Sailor/Mom/Pi story a lot more than the book. In the book I get the sense that Martel was pointing out people's cynicism regarding faith and that the final 'other story' was just a brief shadow on an otherwise enlightened experience. Hollywood (the film business in General) has always relied on the more sordid things in life , and having worked there, I can assure you they look on all of us believers as fools and hillbilly's...so it would only stand to reason that they would leave a finger on the scale in favor of the 'Bad' story. Regardless, YOU did a great job researching and clarifying the thread...thank you, and even knowing that...I'll still go with the Tiger. Peace

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your well thought out comments and for your kind words. Peace to you as well my friend.

Thanks for clear and reasonable explanation.

The movie was a masterpiece

Pi was enamored with christianity, so I thought the island represented eden, where the fruit was the teeth in leaves. Pi could live in paradise but be continually reminded every night about his deeds, or he could leave for the possibility of starting anew either in life or death

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, good observation. It is very Edenic.

@0riginal_panda_child249

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory keep up the good work! Just subscribed and binged watched all of your videos lol

Now that i rewatched it it's 100% clear that the latter story was the true one because writers like stories that make the viewers gasp in unbelief that a nice person could be capable of so much violence when there are extreme situations in life. So the latter story is true what he told right after the reporters asked for the truth. When he told the original story he told it like it was an adventure and when he told the truth his face was serious because now he had to face what he really did. He had a lot of days at the seas to make up a bs story and when he was asked for the truth he finally told the truth. And the reporters were nasicslly like 'hey dude bananas don't float and there's no magic islands so we need the truth now' And the book writer figured it out and connected every animal to the people and after that Pi said no one can prove either story to be true so which story do you prefer? And the writer said the one with the tiger is the "better story" (aka makes a better book) And Pi replied and ended the conversation with: "thank you, and so it goes with God" meaning thank you for not publishing a book that's about me killing people because after i was rescued i left that part of me and have made peace with God and that that is how he like to recall the events.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Great thoughts. Thanks for sharing!

1.joker 2.pursuit of happyess 3.the dark knight rises Please make a video on these films. I saw your video on the dark knight movie and thought that no one would explain the above said movies as you could.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rakshith! Those are definitely on my list.

I think the island represents "the comfort zone". A place where you can survive, but never live

This is amazing. Thank you 💕

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it!

Thanks for the explanation ❤

This was something like a great Ted Talk, which I enjoyed immensely. I prefer the first story but watched it 3 times over the past few years and came to the same conclusion that you did. As a None-believer, I have thought that the universe could be, or might be, God, and the universe definitely gives us free will. And I believe in the universe, and what 1st C. Rabbi said, that what we call the Golden Rule is the law and the prophets, all else is commentary. If Krisna holds the universe in his mouth, he might be God!!

Great explaining

Another perfect videos

I saw this movie when it first came out, though I didn't really understand it. I was rather confused at the end, when the people were at his bedside and assessed who was who, and their eventual demise. I too was amazed at the appearance of the mysterious island, though, I assessed that it was a hallucination, I am impressed that he came to terms with God, and that he was ready, if being in lifeboat was to be the end of his life.

amazing amazing amazing Thanks for the clarification. Such an enlightening story

@MoralofthisStory

Ай бұрын

Thanks. Just my take on it.

you did killer, bro!

Did you know you can actually see this same Island during the opening when Pi and his brother are walking towards a church, if you look carefully over the mountains you can see the same head shape!

@XiaolinTemple

Жыл бұрын

@@helloworldx10 It's a fun way of implying the Tiger Story is False, or that the Island is one of the many Gods?

You’ll gain sub very fast even I knew you don need it much

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Thank your so much you made me understand it keep going your a lifesaver

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Nice!Thank you

Another great video. Now it's time to cover what the meerkat mean.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

All I know to say about the meerkats is what I said in this video: They were an endless supply of food for Richard Parker. Plus they are interesting to look at and help to make the point that the ground isn't safe at night. I don't see them as trapped souls or anything like I have heard people say.

@devinsmith1268

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory The meerkats were maggots I believe. I think the movie said the meerkats filled the island like maggots. The island being the body of the cook

amazing interpretation..

great video.

Good you have done well

I do believe the acids from the island that appear at night allude to one's own stomach acids which will eventually eat away at a starvation victim.

Damn that some good analysis

Going off the book only (I don't think the book described that the island looked like a human, so while I understand people's analysis that it's an idol, I'm just going off the book). I feel like the island is everything. Pi's name is "everything" and this island is the whole story condensed, as well as life itself. It is the conundrum of a vegetarian/cannibal. The digestive system, the ingenuity of nature/survival, the test of what remained of Pi's civility. It's beauty and horror. Did Pi hallucinate it during one of his "dream cloth" sessions? (I don't recall if that part was in the book, but he would nearly suffocate himself with a wet cloth to pass the time, and he remembers it being almost euphoric).

@MoralofthisStory

2 ай бұрын

I like it!

very good interpetation , thanks .

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Nice random video to pop up

I loved this movie, it was awesome

My favorite thing about this film is how it ties spirituality and wrestling with god into it. For example pi tells two different stories. Both of them are true in some sense. But they are “true” in two different ways. One could argue that even if there wasn’t a literal cannabalistic island or literal animals with him, these symbols and metaphors conveyed his journey and the struggles he went through better than the objective, purely material, literal, version of the truth ever could. Th point is that truth doesn’t exist wholly outside of the self. It exists between the world we interact with and our minds (logos/god). He asks at the end which story he prefers and ties this into god because he is making the point that choosing to believe in some kind of transcendence/higher power beyond his own consciousness is the better story. It’s the story that helped him survive. It’s also why the film brings religious stories and texts into it. Because these texts almost always convey some deeper spiritual and mythological truth to us even if we do not interpret them totally literally.

@MoralofthisStory

24 күн бұрын

Thank you! Great explanation.

Life of pi is one of my fav movies idk why tho I gotta read the book

Awesome... Man!!!

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Fascinating interpretation. I suggest you consider Martel's next novel "Beatrice and Virgil"

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that looks interesting!

@glennis3

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, must check with the library to see if they have it....otherwise, go to ebay or amazon.

Found your channel + love it, as a thirsty person myself. I have not a story but some may consider it a story in my co workers mind - as he was revived in the cath lab where he works, after being dead on the C arm used in catheterizations that he fixes, for 42 minutes from factor 5 blood clots. I worked with him in the 90s, he was a science guy type, and atheist. He said he got sent back for his wife, after he spent time in a void, and then got pulled out of the void by the Trinity. He had a discussion first w/ JC, then with God. He told me this in the break room about 3 years after it happened. It would take way too long to type it in here, but if you're interested, I'll tell you in a post under this. I am a former catholic who is not as religious as I used to be, but I didn't find much that I disagreed with, because as fantastic as it sounded, it made sense. Especially his discourse w/ Jesus, and then God after he asked JC a few questions. When I tell him to write a book on this, he said he was told to share it openly with anyone who wants to know, but not to profit with it. Crazily weird, was that a few years later, I got more input on his death from another engineer that was there that night, who was assigned to comfort his wife in the waiting room, and knew my friend from working with him after I did in the late 90s. He added information that solidified things my NDE friend told me. This engineer transferred out of town before my friend started telling some of his story, and didn't know anything of the experience, and added the icing to the cake so to speak. My friend sad the other side is reality, this is the dream, that we are animal on earth, much like Charlie Parker. The love on the other side is indescribable, but i made him try anyway. Kevin, really like your channel, let me know if you want to hear more details on this. Maybe it's not appropriate for this channel.

@MoralofthisStory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I would love to hear the rest of your story. I am amazed by all of the stories that people share.

@JimHabash

Жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory Please feel free to delete this if it is too heavy for your guidelines. Also, please, excuse my grammar, its a lot of information. When someone who has experienced death tells their story to you, it moves you hard. Because my friend went through joy, complete despair, absolute tears, child like giddiness, and fascinating wisdom, and the entire gamut of vivid emotions one can witness from another during their story. I'll call him M, for his 1st name, he's part British and part Costa Rican. He's a funny guy, sort of Ricardo Montalban from fantasy Island meets George Lopez. He has factor 5, Vitamin K from vegetables causes your blood to clot, and he never knew it. So , as an older guy who had bad habits like eating poorly and smoking, his blood got thick, it caught up with him, and he collapsed at home. I hadn't worked w him for at least a decade, he was an in house engineer, and when he died he was brought back to the hospital he worked at, and was revived by the docs who he answers to for image quality on the C Arm flouro x ray unit they use for vascular catherization's. They all knew him, and as one of their own, they didn't give up on him. They figured out he had clots from factor 5, while he was dead, dropped his blood out of him, filtered the smaller clots out, cooled it at least 15 degrees to buy time, pumped it back into him and did some catheterizations to free the final clots and brought him back. I was told they did something off the cuff for factor 5 revival, only as a suggestion out of the blue- and that was the final thing that worked. It's technical. But they joke that he should be a vegetable at best. I personally wouldn't want to be revived that way, let me die. But it shook down that way. I got to be alone with him in the cath lab breakroom for an hour late in the afternoon, and there was mostly untouched food sitting there, some salesman had brought it in, as they do, and it was on the table. This plays a role in the story. So I asked him what he saw. M goes, you cannot believe the love on the other side. What happened ? He said, I had flu symptoms for a month, I got home from work, wife wasn't there, I just wanted to sit down, and I was walking across the room and said "#$68" I'm dying! You'd say that too if you were dropping dead. M said, I saw my life flash before my eyes, real fast. I said dude, how do you see your life flash before your eyes in the second it takes you to fall to the ground? He said, only the important events in my life, or the things that made me happy, a recollection of them boom! Then I saw a bright light, I didn't see a tunnel, nor did I see any deceased family members. I'm in this black void. But it's not black, its nothing. But I wasn't scared. I felt protected there. In fact, and his face lit up, dude I was like super man, and he pounds his chest w/ both hands at once inward, like king kong, and goes my body didn't hurt, I was light, with no pain, and the weight of the earth was gone from me. Like all the bad of the earth as we know it just didn't exist. So I tried to think a negative thought, in this void. You couldn't, it just didn't exist there. I knew I had a wife, I knew I had children, but they were like a distant dream to me. So I'm floating in the void, and I'm a bubble , like a circular orb. I had no hands, nothing. But it was fabulous! Take your best day on earth, it doesn't even come close. Your mind is clear, and sharp, and fast. Then , a billion orbs appeared around me. They loved me unconditionally. They knew me, everything about me. I assimilated their knowledge, and now the little that I knew as a human, I contributed my life experiences to them. And EVERYTHING that they knew, I now knew too. We were a hive mind. A collective consciousness. I knew anything there was to know about anything. I said M, why don't you enlighten me with some wit? He said Jim, don't be a smart ass, listen- I'm back here in this stupid little human brain. But over there I was one with everything that ever existed. I said what did they look like? He put his hand behind my head, can you see my hand? No! It wasn't like that for me I could see 360 degrees in all direction, like a fisheye lens. I was a bubble orb, just like them. And you could tell what or how developed they were by their countenance. Some were bright, some had beautiful colors and sparkly. And some were absolutely magnificent, and I knew those ones were old, they were angels. It gets far out, as if this is not far enough. He said he began exchanging life experiences with them, in first person. And he could pick an orb, and they would start doing downloads of their experiences, zip zip very fast, and he could live and experience things just as they did. I asked him to recall these, and he said he just knows he did it. He said, I thought this WAS heaven ,and I was perfectly content to do this with the orbs in the void with me. I felt like I was there for 40 years, but time did not exit there. He said he was able to remember things about humans. I'm guessing, as if it was told to him, as something to pass on. First, everyone is connected to each other on earth, and everything you do has an effect on everyone else. You have free will here to bring the whole planet up, or the whole planet down. It's strictly up to you. But the universe is gonna know what you did. They won't judge you, but they'll know. And your actions are like a butterfly effect, a butterfly flaps its wings in one continent, and causes a thunderstorm in another continent. That's you, even your thoughts have an effect. Like you throw a rock in a pond, and the waves keep going. Second, everyone on planet earth, is meant for the earth, and the earth is meant for us. It was and always will be. (Sounds simple, but I thought it was kind of creepy) Third, (really odd to say the least imhop) The more you suffer on earth, the greater your joy on the other side. This is getting very long. I didn't even cover how it felt there yet I pressed for a description of the "feeling" of being there, nor the religious part, or how he got sent back. They are the difficult parts, how the love on the other side was completely open, and how that contrasts with earth. Like charlie Parker, he said we are "AnimahL. Like he draws it out. He said we are animal on earth. But we are not like that on the other side. He said look at that food on the table look at it! I said ok, I'm looking at it, relax. M said very seriously, if you hadn't eaten for a month, and were starving, you would kill somebody for food. Because you're animal here. Don't you forget that. And don't ever come back, if you have a choice. I did not. I said did you see God? He said look I don't tell the other guys that part of the story, they'll think I'm crazy. But I'll tell you because you want to know. And i was told to share it openly with anyone who wants to know, but not to profit from it. Now, my wife thinks this was all in his head, like a dying dream. A doc joked that he had a 99.9% chance of being dead, or a vegetable at best. My friend said that 3 weeks after he was revived, all his skin peeled off like what happens with a sunburn, his entire body peeled. I think due to dropping his blood temperature. I HAVE to give his story a listen, in detail. Anyone who is technical, who cares enough about why we are here, needs to give these folks a listen. My friend had a very difficult time in coming back, and said some awful things about being here. He was in denial back then when I first spoke to him, it was 2014. He was disgusted with the earth, with being back. He was so sad. Around 2016 he started to lighten up. He told me more of the religious stuff. By a distant coincidence, I was able to speak to another engineer at a hospital in another city, who was there the night he died, because all the in house engineers came in to see him as the word got around they were trying to revive him. I got accounts from 2 people. And one of them said he was tasked with going out to console his wife, because they felt he would not make it. And when he went out to the waiting room, what he saw stunned him, and it goes with the reason my friend said he was sent back, for his wife. This was some serious stuff. I'll end here and maybe take it up later. Chew on this part of the story. Its way out there in some aspects, but I never doubted the things he said. Like how we effect each other. I use the word effect, not affect, because of the results of our actions in this world, are an effect. He kept saying you don't understand the Love that is on the other side. Many times. He misses it so bad. He said, you think this is real don't you? I said, it feels pretty real to me bro? He points up to the ceiling. That, THAT IS REALITY, this is the dream. He doesn't care about his house his car, his money, how he looks or what I think of him. He's not from here, and neither are we- we just haven't figure that out yet. I said of course you don't care about money, you're Sr. Engineer here, you're going to retire your house is paid off. Your kids are all grown and successful- of course you don't care about money! He said, you dumb s, can you take your car , and your house, and ALL your stuff. Can you shove them up your a$$, and take them to heaven with you? I said no, that's very true. Did they teach you that? "No I thought that one up myself" he said, smiling.

The only other movie with so much is the first Blade Runner, that is high praise, for that is one of the other best movies ever.

@MoralofthisStory

26 күн бұрын

Maybe I should do a video on Blade Runner.

Beautiful

American psycho. Would be good to go in to depth in. Life of pi is a good movie.

Chevere!

One youtube video interpreted human shaped island as deadbody and those meercats or whatever they are as maggots. And a bit of relief in the island as cannibalism to stay alive. I thought it made sense. But i still dont know what turning of water toxic at night killing all the aquatic life means?

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@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I am honored!

Nice job! I consider myself a tough audience yet you enlightened my perspective- thank you

@MoralofthisStory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Humberto! I am honored.

Pi didn't eat the cook, he used him for bait to catch fish, small difference.

@giganoob1968

26 күн бұрын

Please do, I can't wait. I have only watched that movie about 20 times.

It's springtime and the pollen is making my eyes water.

@MoralofthisStory

Жыл бұрын

=)

Thanks

Sir it great to know from you, i am honour with your word. How about we try on a movie name Alpha tqvm

Everything is here. And nature is the ultimate which transform itself as u

Running out of words right now as I want to appreciate your efforts in making this video!! All I can manage right now is Thank You 🙏🏼

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! Thank you for your comment.

Are you telling me these were all figments of his imagination?

@maheshdocherla

Жыл бұрын

It appears more like a near death experience, with his past experiences shown symbolically and working out the decision-making process on whether to give up and die or resolve your conflicts from significant trauma & live again. It is basically a fight between guilt from his cannibalism making him give up and his past experiences & spiritual education across the three religions encouraging him to understand his actions and live on in a productive life. It, thus, is also the essence of Bhagwad Gita.

Hi, can you do one for the book by Mitch Albom - A Stranger on a lifeboat?

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion! I will have to check that one out.

Meerkat like people Island like planet

The Island could be the corpse of Pi’s mother. The suricats represents maggots eating the dead body. It means that Pi ate his own mother to survive.

@MoralofthisStory

8 ай бұрын

Interesting. I can see that.

@TheWizardGamez

7 ай бұрын

Considering that Parker has to eat, and is usually used as a substitute for his real trauma, I could see that, that he did something so evil that he had to manifest an island just to make it make sense, and eventually into eating the corpse, he had a sudden realization what he was doing, and it caused him to take a serious look at his life. That the island was a vital point in continuing his existence, but ultimately would be a crutch to his death

What's the realization of Pi while on the sea? What is the significance of tiger's name (Richard Parker)??

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the question. I answer those more fully in my other Life of Pi video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/fpd4qK-QY7GXhKQ.html

The island part spoiled the book. It was pretty good up until that point, plausible, despite the craziness of the situation, and with some beautiful writing, especially the stuff about sloths early on. One problem though with stranded-at-sea pieces is; to convey the boredom, the monotony, of day after day on an ocean, means, inevitably, to BE boring, to be monotonous, for parts of the novel, otherwise you don't convey this. So, as a result of the writer doing well in conveying this, he was, well, boring, for a big part of the novel.

Great work! A movie that stays with me and I would like you to analize is Grave of the Fireflies. I have my own lessons that I believe the story was trying to convey, i'd like to hear your take on it. Even if you don't do a video on it, you will have at least have seen a profound work of art.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

I hadn't heard of that one. I will look into it. Thank you.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

I am assuming you are referring to the 1988 animated version, correct?

@artvandalay7357

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory yes

@artvandalay7357

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory It tells the story of two orphans nearing the close of the war in Japan. Spiritual in an other way

Wow

Homers odyssey The island is like the land of the lotus eaters and Calypso If he stays on the island he will be forever lost

Awesome. I now have to see the movie again. Are Hindu gods aspects of ourselves?

How did you figure this out, you are a real philosopher

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! It's just the way my brain works. Watch my 'Separating the Theme from the Goats' video where I talk more about things I look for.

This is deeply spiritual. Pi is said to be Christian but at this point in time he’s still holding on to his Hindu beliefs. The island itself represents Vishnu, but knowing this give this a closer look. It represents how following after other gods except the one true God may start off peaceful and things may seem perfect, but when the day is gone the true nature of the false gods are revealed to be carnivorous. This can be seen if one parallels the island to Vishnu and the allegory for Pi finding rest in Vishnu aka the island. Again Pi is Christian so a fellow Christian may see what i’m talking about.

@MoralofthisStory

Ай бұрын

Interesting. I like your interpretation.

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@MoralofthisStory

6 ай бұрын

Looks interesting

Please tell joker 2019 the next story

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The deleted scene confuses...

I thought the island represented a dead body.

Maybe I’m Krishna? You never know… can we? We Never Can Tell… I suppose As Life in full circle is to remain a mystery until the circle is full! That is our goal here… to be the circle and fill it until full… not in the sense of a carnivorous manner… though fill our full circles journey with the Truth… in and of all things that Truly matter… the matter in which consists of pure Love and Love’s Grace in understanding All things in our experience. Muah Examination CCXOXO

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Plz clarify me . Was there animals or people on the boat?

@brockschannel3927

2 жыл бұрын

It's ambiguous Only Point of both stories is a sort of test for the audience The story of the cook the sailor and the mother is the more realistic while the story with the tiger is more fantastical. The point is which story do you think is true What do you think is the better story?

Exactly my life. I thought I landed in beautiful & prosperous community but found out it's predatory society.

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry to hear that. I hope your situation improves.

Sorry for the dumb question. Did pi eat people?

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

The book makes it clear that the cook convinced him to eat a little of the sailor in order to survive. He then changed his mind and hated the cook for it.

@ClosedEyeVisualisations

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory Thank you very much, havent read the book so just wanted a little clarification.

“Which story do you prefer?”

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

I like the overall story that includes both versions, but if I had to choose just one I think I would go with the animal story.

@drugsarebad97

2 жыл бұрын

@@MoralofthisStory i like the human story because you realize PI had to create the animals in his head to get through it , but knowing it’s a human story just hits deep

@MoralofthisStory

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it makes me sad what the humans did to each other. Having it be animals softens it a little.

I'm so lucky to be a Hindu 🕉

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