http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2012/08/pi_in_orange_co.php
very much of a spiritual-religious allegory, and that's it's basically about finding, accepting and loving God. He expanded by saying this longish film, 140-plus minutes with about 90 minutes devoted to the lifeboat section on the open sea, is about how all religions pass along their message in the form of fables, and that the point of religion and/or finding spiritual satori is to rise above nature.