BloodRaven

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  1. The Japanese MLX01 can attain speeds of up to 361 mph!

    I've been on it, everything close to the window is a blur of color.

    Wait

    That doesn't make you a horrendous driver.. Well not unless u got caught

    When we win the car horns and burners you hear aren't going to be because of horrendous drivers... well, most won't be.

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  2. The floating island is symbolic of the Hindu god Vishnu, "master of the Universe" and "patron of the past, present and future". The meerkats represent the paradoxical combination of safety and death. They show him how to get by on the island, but also the danger of the algae. Pi eats them to survive, furthering the dual metaphor. The name "Richard Parker" was derived from the unrelated victims of 2 shipwrecks, one in 1846 and the other in 1884. During the latter, Mr. Parker was eaten by his fellow ship-wreck mates.

    The Chinese have come to a fascinating conclusion of their own, substituting the spiritual phenomenons with traumatic, subconscious hallucinations haunting Pi for the lengths he went to survive:

    http://www.stasiarep...ife-pi-20121212

    I guess you would need a basic understanding of Hindu to get that, I figured if the story is a most likely an allegory and metaphor then the island represented hopelessness.

    I watched "This is 40" that was pretty bad. Judd Apatow is like the new M. Night Shyamalan, just slowly regressing.

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  3. As long as there arent spoilers, Isn't that the purpose for trailers???

    Not always. Sometimes they're vague with something shocking (like an upside down plane) to pique interest, teaser trailers. JJ Abrams did it with Super 8 and Cloverfield.

    Question for anyone who has seen Life of Pi,

    what is the significance of the floating island and the meerkats?
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