Review of Pi (1998) by Rubia — 10 May 2012
"Pi" starts with an hyperactive song and opening intro (why it did remind me of Run Lola Run?). A disturbed mind, a math genius, the number Pi as the key to the universe. Drastic camera angles and contrast lighting; the chaos.
I´ve always liked mathematics. Once you really learn it, going beyond memorized formulas, it becomes fascinating, but more than mathematics I´ve always been amazed by minds. If it was possible, I would definitely buy a trip to a genius´one. A genius´one. Between Max Cohen and Robert Llewelyn (from John Madden´s Proof), I would still pick out Robert´s insanity.
After watching "Pi", the promising embryo, I´m sure that none of the trips to Aronofsky´s mind worths its price. Take off the astonished soundtrack and chaotically beautiful black-an-white photography and you have nothing. Nothing but the lost promise of "geniality", as it happens with his last work Black Swan.
Like Rob Nelson said in his review that Pi is about nothing but its ambition - the tale of an obsessive math genius who finds clues to the universe everywhere he looks, told by an indie filmmaker who's convinced that every point-of-view shot signifies something really deep.
This review of Pi (1998) was written by Rubia on 10 May 2012.
Pi has generally received very positive reviews.
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