Review of Pi (1998) by Chris N — 27 Feb 2010
A film about a genius mathematician who has built a supercomputer at home that provides something that can be understood as a key for understanding all existence.
He rules his life by some assumptions:
Mathematics is the language of nature;.
Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers;.
If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature.
He is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market.
He is followed by a company interested in his results and by an orthodox Jew who believes that his number is a code sent from God.
He believes that the number and these terrible headaches he is enduring have some connection so he tries to focus on the number through the pain, but he crushes and has a vision which after he reveals he is no longer able to perform mental calculation.
This is an intelligent film, though I didn't understand it's end.
This review of Pi (1998) was written by Chris N on 27 Feb 2010.
Pi has generally received very positive reviews.
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