Life of Pi, a new movie based off of Yann Martel's novel, is directed by Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon). Stone has many positive comments about the director, writing "one of the things that tells you the director is in his prime - a model of creative evolution - is that his films feel like total surprise when first announced but fit snugly into his oeuvre once you've seen them." Life of Pi, the opening of the New York film festival, is the summation of the principle powering of Mr. Ang Lee's career and a success in the eyes of the critics.
This article is written by Tom Stone, an arts & entertainment writer for The Guardian. The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper that has been in print since 1821.
The context of this article is that Life of Pi is coming to theaters on November 21st, 2012. The author's purpose for writing this review was to weigh the positive and negative aspects of this movie, allowing his audience, avid movie goers, a chance to determine whether to see it or not. I think the author is able to achieve his purpose, because he has positive and constructive comments interspersed throughout his commentary. For example, "the film takes a while to get going, like someone roused from their morning meditation ... or as if they had been hit around the head with a brass pot."
A rhetorical device used in this article was contrast, or the identification of differences between two or more subjects: "director Ang Lee melds so many disparate elements - Aesopian fable and cutting-edge 3D technology, east and west, young and old - that he may have just succeeded in rebranding himself as the Obama of world cinema."
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