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Clips from Life of Pi

""So, a Canadian who's come to French India"
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"in search of a story.""
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""Well, my friend, I know an Indian in French Canada..."
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"with the most incredible story to tell.""
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""It must be fate that the two of you should meet.""
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"Well, I haven't spoken about Richard Parker in so many years."
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"So, what has Mamaji already told you?"
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"He said you had a story that would make me believe in God."
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"He would say that about a nice meal."
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"As for God, I can only tell you my story."
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"You will decide for yourself what you believe."
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"Fair enough."
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"Let's see, then. Where to begin?"
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"Pondicherry is the French Riviera of India."
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"In the streets closest to the ocean,"
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"you might think you were in the south of France."
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"A few blocks inland, there's a canal."
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"Just beyond that is Indian Pondicherry."
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"And the Muslim quarter is just to the west."
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"When the French handed Pondicherry back to us in 1954..."
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"the town decided that some sort of commemoration was in order."
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"My father, who was a clever businessman, came up with one."
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"He ran a hotel, and he got the idea to open a zoo..."
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"in the local botanical gardens instead."
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"As it also happened, my mother was a botanist in the gardens."
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"They met, married, and a year later my brother Ravi was born."
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"I came two years after that."
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"It sounds magical, growing up in..."
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"Amen."
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"Yeah, let's eat."
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"I didn't know Hindus said "amen.""
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"Catholic Hindus do."
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"Catholic Hindus?"
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"We get to feel guilty before hundreds of gods, instead of just one."
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"But you're a Hindu first?"
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"None of us knows God until someone introduces us."
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"I was first introduced to God as a Hindu."
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"There are 33 million gods in the Hindu religion."
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"How can I not come to know a few of them?"
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"I met Krishna first."
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"Yashoda once accused baby Krishna of eating dirt."
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""Tut, tut you naughty boy - you shouldn't do that.""
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"But he didn't!"
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"That's what he told her."
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""I didn't eat dirt.""
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"Yashoda said, "No? Well then...""
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""Open your mouth.""
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"So Krishna opened his mouth."
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"And what do you think Yashoda saw?"
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"What?"
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"She saw in Krishna's mouth the whole entire universe."
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"The gods were my superheroes growing up."
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"Hanuman, the monkey god..."
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"lifting an entire mountain to save his friend Lakshman."
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"Ganesh, the elephant-headed..."
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"risking his life to defend the honor of his mother, Parvati."
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"Vishnu, the supreme soul, the source of all things."
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"Vishnu sleeps, floating on the shoreless cosmic ocean..."
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"and we are the stuff of his dreaming."
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"Spectacle."
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"Don't let these stories and pretty lights fool you, boys."
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"Religion is darkness."
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"My dear appa believed himself part of the new India."
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"As a child, he had had polio."
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"He used to lie in bed racked with pain, wondering where God was."
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"In the end, God didn't save him, Western medicine did."
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"My amma went to college..."
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"and thought her family was part of the new India as well..."
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"until her parents cut her off..."
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"because they thought she was marrying beneath her."
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"Her religion was the only link she had to her past."
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"I met Christ in the mountains when I was 12."
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"We were visiting relatives, tea growers in Munnar."
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"It was our third day there. Ravi and I were terribly bored."
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"Challenge. I'll give you two rupees."
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"Run in to that church and drink the holy water."
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"You must be thirsty."
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"Here."
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"I brought you this."
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"Why would a god do that?"
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"Why would He send His own son..."
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"to suffer for the sins of ordinary people?"
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"Because He loves us."
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"God made Himself approachable to us,"
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"human, so we could understand Him."
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"We can't understand God in all His perfection."
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"But we can understand God's son"
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"and His suffering as we would a brother's."
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"That made no sense."
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"Sacrificing the innocent to atone for the sins of the guilty..."
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"What kind of love is that?"
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"But this son..."
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"I couldn't get him out of my head."
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"If God is so perfect and we are not..."
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"why would He want to create all this?"
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"Why does He need us at all?"
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"All you have to know is that He loves us."
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"God so loved this world that He gave His only son."
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"The longer I listened to the priest..."
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"the more I came to like this son of God."
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"Thank you, Vishnu, for introducing me to Christ."
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"I came to faith through Hinduism"
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"and I found God's love through Christ."
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"But God wasn't finished with me yet."
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"God works in mysterious ways."
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"And so it was, He introduced Himself again."
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"This time by the name of Allah."
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"Allahu Akbar."
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"My Arabic was never very good..."
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"but the sound and feel of the words brought me closer to God."
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"In performing Salah..."
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"the ground I touched became holy ground..."
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"and I found a feeling of serenity and brotherhood."
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"This lamb is exquisite."
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"It's the best dish on the table."
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"You're all missing out."
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"You only need to convert to three more religions, Piscine..."
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"and you will spend your life on holiday."
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"Are you going to Mecca this year, Swami Jesus?"
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"Or to Rome for your coronation as Pope Pi-us?"
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