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Chapter 610 The drunkard doesn’t care about drinking

Li Binbin just updated an article about "Life of Pi" on his blog.

Fan Binbin’s blog also published a film review about “Life of Pi” shortly afterwards.

“Before talking about the movie Life of Pi, we need to set some premises. These premises are like the axioms in mathematics, from which all deductions and reasonings come. If we cannot reach a consensus at the starting point, we will only go our separate ways and go further and further away.”

"First: The Life of Pi novel belongs to Yann Martel, and the Life of Pi movie belongs to Director Wang. Director Wang's movie is based on the original novel, but it is not exactly the same. He kept the story framework, made changes, additions and deletions, mixed it with Wang's genes, and turned it into something else."

"Second, Irrfan Khan, the actor who plays Pi in his adult film, once said in an interview: 'On the surface, this film is a boy's adventure story, but in fact, it hides many metaphors, it has many parallel spaces and many levels.' In other words, this is an allegorical story, and the metaphors in it are restrained and concise, and the mapping relationship between them is very obvious."

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"Let's stop talking nonsense and start from that dinner."

"At the beginning of the movie, Pi, who believes in Hinduism, Christianity and Islam, has a conversation with his father and mother at dinner. This conversation is very important. It is the first preview of the theme of the whole movie."

"Pi's father said: 'If you believe in three religions at the same time, it means you believe in nothing. Instead of that, you should choose to believe in reason and science... I would rather you deny me after careful consideration than accept it blindly without discrimination.'"

"And my mother said, 'Science solves external problems, not internal ones.'"

"It actually implies that reason and faith play different roles. The former solves practical problems, while the latter solves spiritual problems. Please note that this sentence of the mother actually became the psychological source of all Pi's subsequent actions."

"The film mentions the backgrounds of the two: the father's life was saved by modern medicine, so he believes in science, which represents rationality; the mother is inclined to religion, which represents faith. The film also specifically emphasizes that the mother abandoned her family to follow her father, and faith is her only connection with the past."

"Father and mother have different opinions, and Pi is faced with a choice. To be rational or to have faith, this is a classic dilemma in the spiritual field. The choice that Pi finally made is: 'I decided to be baptized.'"

"In other words, he chose the latter, which means he agreed with his mother's words."

"But faith requires piety, and Pi is not a pious person, he is a pantheist. The discussion of the adult Pi shows that he needs a supernatural, supreme power as a support for his faith. As for whether it is God, Allah or Vishnu, it is not important. It can be said that in his consciousness, what he believes in is the faith itself, not a specific god."

"For the devout, they choose faith to solve problems. But for people like Pi, they choose faith just to escape from problems. For them, faith is not a specific object of worship, but a place of sustenance, a space to escape."

“That’s why Pi tells two stories.”

"A fantasy story can be wild and unrestrained, but a true story must conform to reality. In the first story, there is a cannibal island, which is a tropical jungle in the deep sea, with countless meerkats that can only be found in the desert. The desert and the sea are two completely different images."

"So, the first story is Pi's fantasy, and the second story is real and rational. But Pi cannot resolve the inner torment brought by the second cruel story, so he can only escape into the first story and transform the victims around him into various animals to calm himself - just as his mother said at dinner, rationality resolves external issues, and faith resolves internal issues. His sentence 'I decided to be baptized' is actually a prophecy of his decision to escape."

"Director Wang uses two methods to guide the audience to subtly perceive the existence of metaphors in this film. One is preview. Before every big action, there is a small action as a preview. The second is to let the subject and the metaphor appear repeatedly to strengthen the connection between the two, and then reveal the fate of the subject by building the relationship between the metaphors."

"Some people say that the tiger represents fear, but I think it should go a step further and represent Pi's instinctive emotions. In the first story, Pi split himself into two parts. He represents humanity or rationality, and the tiger represents the primitive instinct stripped of rationality - instinctively angry, instinctively fearful, and expressing his crudest desires without any disguise."

“But does the second story really make sense?”

"Recall the process of the second story: Pi, his mother, a sailor, and a cook boarded a lifeboat. The sailor was injured and died soon. The cook ate him. Then Pi accidentally let a turtle go and was beaten by the cook. His mother quarreled with the cook and was killed by the cook. The cook threw his mother's body into the sea to feed the sharks. Pi killed the cook out of anger and ate him."

"In this story, all the elements correspond perfectly to the first story. Mother = gorilla, chef = hyena, sailor = zebra, tiger = Pi's instinct. It seems perfect and reasonable. Even the most rational insurance company is about to agree with it. But there are two flaws in it."

"The first flaw is the banana."

"When Pi told the first story, he said that the gorilla came on a floating banana. The insurance investigator immediately pointed out that bananas don't float. When Pi told the second story, he didn't change this detail and still insisted that his mother came on a floating banana."

"Whether a banana can float in reality is not important. In the world of the movie, the insurance investigator pointed out that bananas cannot float. This represents common sense. Its function is to bring out the counter-common sense in Pi's story. The internal logic is self-consistent."

"The second flaw is my mother's death."

"The chef is a person who is very obsessed with food. He would eat rats and kill sailors to use their meat as bait. To him, every piece of meat is extremely precious. But after my mother died, the chef did not eat her, but threw her into the sea to feed the sharks - this is a waste, especially since the chef had already eaten the sailors. For him, the biggest psychological barrier has been removed, and there is no reason for him to do such a wasteful behavior."

“The second story itself is already very complete, but there are these two rather eye-catching unnecessary details. In fact, they are also deliberately retained labels to remind the audience that the second story is not true either, or at least it conceals part of the truth.”

As soon as Fan Binbin's blog post was published, it instantly attracted a lot of attention from netizens.

ID bubble bubble Binbin: Who wrote this? It doesn't look like something Binbin could write.

Haizi with ID Fei Liuhai: Haha, I just saw Li Binbin’s blog and I was wondering if Fan Binbin would also update his blog? Sure enough, he really published such a long article.

ID I am the One You Can't Get: It's too long so I didn't read it. To sum it up in one sentence, Director Wang, please ask me to play the female lead in your next movie.

ID Dreamer is here: Wow, he is worthy of being the youngest Oscar-winning director in history. As soon as his new film was released, the two ice-stars among the four actresses and two ice-stars started to lick his coat, and they are waiting for Zhou Xun, Zhao Yanzi and others to follow suit.

ID It’s your fault for letting me go: Wow~ Binbin is so awesome, what you said are all what I wanted to say, but I’m not as eloquent as you.

In fact, since Fan Binbin opened her blog, many netizens who often follow her know that the articles on Fan Binbin’s blog are basically not written by her, but by someone else.

This is because the techniques, word choice and sentence structure of many contents are different, and it is obvious that they are not the work of one person.

As this phenomenon becomes more and more common, many netizens have realized that it must be an internal ghostwriter of a certain company who is writing the article.

In fact, Fan Binbin has a very bad reputation in the circle. Neither her artistic skills nor her character are popular. People in the circle have the common impression that she is eager for quick success, unscrupulous, snobbish, and arrogant.

These characteristics are consistent with her image as a little gangster.

Because of this, he offended many people.

It’s just that in a place like the entertainment industry, as long as your career is at its peak, you will be surrounded by good people.

This is exactly the situation Fan Binbin is facing now.

Her career is on the rise, and she is surrounded by flattery and praise. She lives in a circle of praise every day.

This made her even more arrogant.

Of course, due to snobbery, it is impossible for him to be arrogant in front of anyone.

For example, when facing Wang Shu, he was very polite.

As Li Binbin and Fan Binbin successively published blog posts about "Life of Pi" on Sina, Zhang Ziyi also updated a film review about "Life of Pi" on Sohu Space.

Originally, Zhang Ziyi’s official website was on Sina, but later it “moved” to Sohu, and she opened the “Ziyi Space” on the Sohu blog.

As for why Zhang Ziyi was working well at Sina, why did she "move" to Sohu?
In fact, it was the official website that Sohu "bought" from Zhang Ziyi at a price of about 150 million yuan per year.

Not only that, because there are a lot of negative news about celebrities such as Zhang Ziyi, after celebrities cooperate with large portals, the websites will try to publish less negative news about them and give more positive content as much as possible.

After Zhang Ziyi moved to Sohu, she did not open a blog but a personal space where she could close comments.

But on Sina Blog, it cannot be closed.

Therefore, as soon as Zhang Ziyi arrived at Sohu, she turned off the netizen comment function.

Due to the lack of interactivity, the number of visitors to the space has been greatly reduced.

"I was lying in bed last night after watching Life of Pi and couldn't help but think about the plot of Life of Pi."

"The more I thought about it, the more I couldn't sleep. I was filled with fear. In the end, I was so scared that I didn't even dare to stretch my legs."

“Until now, I am still a little shocked.”

"The truth that Director Wang hesitated to tell behind many details is indeed an extremely dark and cruel story."

"Director Wang is like building an incredibly magical and beautiful garden for you to play in, and be intoxicated by the friendships between people and animals, the luminous whales, and so on."

"But when you were satisfied and about to leave the cinema, he suddenly took you to a small door and told you, actually, this is what I want you to see." "Then he put the key in your hand and turned away."

"If you drive in, you'll see something extremely, extremely horrific, something you'll never forget."

"In fact, the following story is the truth."

"The young Pi boarded the lifeboat with the cook, the Buddhist, and his mother. The cook first killed the Buddhist, then killed his mother, cut off her head and threw it into the sea."

"After Pi saw his mother being killed, he killed the cook in a rage."

"After that, he drifted alone on the sea for more than seven months until he was rescued."

"How did he survive? The bodies of those who died, of course."

"At first, he just ate the cook and the Buddhist, but after the storm, he fell into a coma and thought he was really going to die."

"So he ended up eating his mother."

“That storm was actually the fierce struggle he was going through in his heart.”

"After a storm, he drifted unconscious onto an island filled with meerkats. Everything on the island rotted at night, including human teeth."

“The island is actually my mother’s body, so it often looks very eerie in the shots.”

"His final supply was his mother's rotten body that was even infested with maggots."

"Because the truth was too cruel, Pi couldn't accept it, so he had a split personality."

"Split personality usually occurs because something has happened that the person cannot accept, so in order to protect himself from a mental breakdown, he imagines that it happened to someone else."

"Because I am too obsessed with believing in the imaginary person, I often unconsciously enter and play another personality."

"For example, there is a book called 24 Personalities, an autobiography of a person with split personality."

"The tiger is the split personality of Pi."

"He repackaged all the terrible things. He imagined that the dead people were all kinds of animals, and he attributed his cannibalism to the tiger, imagining that the tiger ate some animals."

"He imagined that the fish in the sea bottom turned into his mother when he fed the shark his mother's head."

“Eating the mother’s body is imagined as finding supplies on an island.”

“All these things can support him to survive.”

"At night, I turn off the lights, lie in bed and think about the time I spent at sea."

"For more than 200 nights, I drifted alone on the endless sea, suffering from hunger and cold, and without help."

"The sea is like a black mirror, cold and merciless."

"There were several human remains in the cabin, some headless, some cut into pieces, with blood all over the floor. My mother's body was among them. I'm about to collapse just thinking about it."

"Pie still has to rely on these to survive!"

"So he had to keep making up stories for himself, and kept repeating the tiger fairy tale to himself."

"He repeated it countless times until he believed it. In fact, he was already a deeply mentally ill patient at that time."

“It reminds me of Mulholland Drive, which is very similar to Life of Pi.”

"That movie is about an actress who kills her lover, and then in her dream, she imagines that they are still together. When she wakes up, she can't stand the shattering of her dream, so she pulls out a gun and commits suicide."

"As for Pi, he daydreamed for more than 200 days."

"In the end, he managed to survive."

"He let the tiger leave him, walked into the jungle without looking back, and buried the darkest things in his heart forever."

“So it’s definitely a more brutal story than Mulholland Drive.”

"Because living is always harder than dying."

"Think about Wang Shu's appearance, his innocent appearance and easy-going personality, his words are so elegant and gentle, and he is friendly to everything."

"But deep down he must have a deep understanding of what cruelty is!"

"Richard Parker was a 17-year-old boy who was the victim of a real shipwreck in history."

"He boarded the lifeboat with three other people, and was eventually killed and eaten by the three men."

"But in Wang Dao's story, he ate the other three people."

“It’s cruel, but it’s true.”

“Maybe, this is human nature!”

Many netizens saw Zhang Ziyi’s film review and wanted to comment, but they could not because the comment function was turned off.

Each and every one of them was extremely anxious.

Because Zhang Ziyi's film review seems to be analyzing "Life of Pi", but in the eyes of netizens, the real purpose is not about the film, but about Wang Shu.

The idea is to get the opportunity to collaborate with Wang Shu on an art film and win an Oscar.

That's why he went to so much trouble to write such a film review, and even revealed his flattery of Wang Shu between the lines, as if he was afraid that Wang Shu wouldn't see it.

Since Zhang Ziyi's reputation was already very bad, many netizens wanted to make fun of her.

Alas, I cannot comment!
Deng Chao was calling Sun Li at the moment. He asked, "Lili, you don't have a blog?"

"Yes, what's wrong?" Sun Li was confused after receiving the call.

Not only does she not have a blog, Zhou Xun doesn't have one either. Many people in the entertainment industry don't have one.

In mid-August this year, Sina launched Weibo.

Once it went online, the number of users grew rapidly.

However, when it was first launched, the usage rate among celebrities was not high.

Neither Sun Li nor Zhou Xun have activated their accounts at this moment.

"Among the four actresses and two ice queens, Zhang Ziyi, Fan Binbin and Li Binbin all posted film reviews about Life of Pi on their blogs. Zhou Xun and Zhao Yanzi did not, apparently because they did not open blogs," Deng Chao explained.

Sun Li was still confused when she heard this and asked, "What's wrong with them posting movie reviews?"

"Alas, I can't explain it to you right away. Just go to the computer and take a look and you'll understand." Deng Chao said anxiously, "Anyway, they all have other intentions!"

(End of this chapter)