d/ Ang Lee
Dazzling transfer of the gimmick novel to the big (3D) screen. A young man gets shipwrecked and ends up on a life raft with a bengal tiger. Much of the film is the battle for survival between the two.
The clash between the two protagonists is made starkly believable. The tiger in particular looks as good as I could have imagined. His body movements, reactions to the boy, flying fish, etc are astounding. But in addition Lee provides us with startlingly beautiful scenes filled with luminous imagery...none of which are at all realistic but serve to transport us to a realm of myth and magic. They help us believe that what we are watching could possibly be.
A sequence on a floating mangrove island...filled with chattering meerkats was transcendent in it's ethereal, otherworldly beauty.
This was one of the best uses of CGI I've seen. The only limit is the imagination.
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