Review of Pi (1998) by Elizabeth M — 27 Jul 2013

Maximillian Cohen: Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics;the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been.

Pi te transporta a la mente atormentada de Max Cohen, todo es desde la perspectiva de su locura, lo cual es interesante y refrescante. El blanco y negro sobresaturado es genial también, le da una atmósfera distinta a la película, y el tema es fascinante y me gusta que lo hayan dejado inconcluso y que nos deje ambivalentes sobre si todo estaba pasando en la realidad o en la cabeza del protagonista.