Pi | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis

Pi | Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis | Movie for the mathematically inclined

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	Pi Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis Lions Gate, 1999 average customer review:based on 462 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

My favorite movie

Maybe it's because I can relate to this character's flight in and out of madness or maybe it's because this is just an amazing film but either way, it is definitely number one on my top 10 list.

The movie mixes themes of paranoia, genius, mathematics, higher power, mania and mysticism. What other movies really do that? All with a unique style and brilliant vision.

Aronofsky didn't ever do it again as far as I'm concerned. I hated Requiem For A Dream. I guess it''s because I could care less about a bunch of pretty drug addicts and a whacked middle-aged woman who was surrounded by annoying music.

It doesn't matter because Pi is a masterpiece and very few people make even one of those per lifetime.

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Movie for the mathematically inclined

Pi is a beautiful movie about the mind, and what can happen if you try to hard. The lead character practically blows his own mind trying to figure the stock market. If math is your thing you have to see this movie. If knowledge is your thing, you also have to see this movie.

My new Hypothesis: "Some patterns are better not found."

Well written screenplay executed brilliantly, with top-notch music. Max, the main character is obsessed with number theory. He considers mathematics as the universal language, and that there is a pattern in everything that occurs in this universe, he sets about trying to find it.

After him are people who are interested in his stock market analyses for monetary purposes, and more strangely, a group of Rabbis who are convinced the same pattern of numbers is the key to their salvation. Now this can be interpreted by viewers in two different ways.

Personal NOTE: I think Max is loosing it and these people are a figment of his imagination. However, Max is the only one who can understand the semantics of the 216 digit number that is key to the universal lock. In the end, Max succeeds on his quest, but what he understands is never revealed to us. What he does however is wierd enough for me to give this movie 4 stars.

This movie maynot be for everyone. Viewers who thought that movies like Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange & Full Metal Jacket had pretty intellectual messages, then don't let this one go by. Think about owning it, only after you have rented it.

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You will remember this film.

Whether one likes the film, PI, or not, one will simply not forget it.

A super math geek, Max Cohen, finding patterns in everything, looks to use math to figure out the stock market. In the process, he is confronted by Wall Street people and Kabbalists who look to take advantage of his genius for their own purposes.

Whether the universe is governed by pattern or chaos, is what drives the film. Max is symbolic of this, in that he is seeking order, while heading on a path to pure personal chaos, insanity.

The film weaves interesting black and white cinematography, a pulsating soundtrack, and an excellent acting performance by Sean Gullette as Max, into a film which does make a viewer at least contemplate some pretty important things.

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