Pi (1998)

Finally a Movie About Math!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jun 1, 2006

Pros: Intellectual, Memorable, Stark Beauty

Cons: Can cause headaches

Max Cohen, a migrane-plagued mathematical genius, is on the verge of a discovery of a lifetime. Journey with him on his search of patterns in nature, and the torment of Max's brilliant mind. Fans of "The Da Vinci Code" should enjoy the ...conspiracy and code-breaking. If that's what you liked about it anyway. Read more Less

OKAY

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Jul 27, 2002

Okay this movie is good. I just don't like the black and white part about it but oh well. If you liked Requiem For A Dream, you'll like this as well.

The birth of genius.

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Feb 11, 2001

An extraordinary debut from Darren Aronofsky who has since gone on to make the absolutely mind blowing "Requiem For A Dream". Buy this film without question and I hope it will build into a collection of works from one of the most promising new direct...ors I have ever seen. Rumours abound that this is the director for the next Batman movie, so be warned. "Pi" seems reminiscent to me of David Lynch's debut "Eraserhead" in its darkened world of an internal darkness and cerebal nightmares. But while Eraserhead moved slowly through its evil mechanics and dream like trances, "Pi" kicks along at a rather furious pace, propelled by music composed by former Pop Will Eat Itself member Clint Mansell. The stark black and white cinematography helps ingrain the images with more directness into the brain, as the concepts of "Pi" are laid out. The relationships Araonofsky draws from the mathematics of nature as relative to the physicality and language of nature, also sought after as the name of God is fascinating. The obsessiveness and single minded determination of the central character shoots forth like a laserbeam, burning holes through everything. As the story reaches its climax it seems as if this maddening desire to comprehend god, to be like god, is in the end a soul destroying proposition, and relative to the enigma of the book of genesis. Where once we were in paradise as ignorant and blissful creatures, and now are cursed forever by the seed of doubt sown from the tree of knowledge, which made us like god, and made us afraid of our own existance, and so from theron were banished from the very place we were born. The paradox being that that which we seek is already within us, and that it is our maddening desire for knowledge and for answers that is our blessing and our curse, and that there once must have been formed a chasm, a gap, a split in our psyche in order to create human beings as distinct from other animals. The paradox of our existance. These a some of the questions and ideas that "Pi" raises. An absolute must see, must own, from the work of a new genius on the block. Read more Less

A new cult classic

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Nov 18, 2000

This film immenses the senses. Dark and disturbing, Aronofsky finds choas and paranoia in his story of an obsessive scientist, Max, who is trying to find a pattern in the number Pi. This is a must-have for any video collector, and keep an eye out fo...r more films by this inventive director. Read more Less

Extraordinary!

By Yahoo! Shopping User  Sep 17, 2000

Max is trying to explain the world of nature through numbers and patterns in those numbers.Sounds dull, huh? This is probably one of the most intense movies you'll ever see. How can that be?You'll see Max embark on a downward spiral as he closes in ...on the nature of PI, drowns himself in a world of chaos theory and fends off a Jewish sect based off of the Kaballah (itself mere numbers.)Obsessive, delusional, and intense. Read more Less