The characters on the whole are vividly drawn but ironed to a cartoonish flatness, and the tone between them is barking and shrill. He is good at conjuring alarm in whooping, adrenalised highs but seems tense and overwrought in the softer moments.
He plays him as a 17-year-old survivor with PTSD in hospital, and as a slightly maniacal castaway on the boat. The visual effects seem to compete with, and ultimately drown out, the quieter, more philosophical elements of the drama, not leaving enough room for Pi’s existential rumination, which is key to his tale.Īs Pi, Hiran Abeysekera looks every inch the puckish man-boy and is incredibly light on his feet. Animal magic … a Life of Pi puppet designed by Caldwell and Nick Barnes.
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