Pi (Film)
- Sean Gullette: Maximillian Cohen
- Mark Margolis: Sol Robeson
- Ben Shenkman: Lenny Meyer
- Pamela Hart: Marcy Dawson
- Stephen Pearlman, Rabbi Cohen
- Samia Shoaib: Devi
- Ajay Naidu: Farroukh
- Kristyn Mae -Anne Lao: Jenna
- Espher Lao Nieves: Jenna's mother
- Joanne Gordon: Mrs. Ovadia
- Lauren Fox: Jenny Robeson
- Stanley Herman: beardless
- Clint Mansell: Photographer
- Tom Tumminello: Ephraim
- Ari Handel: Kabbalah students
π is an American experimental sci-fi thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky from the year 1998. production cost was only $ 60,000, but he played more than 3 million U.S. dollars.
Action
The value held in coarse-grained black and white film is about the paranoid mathematical genius Maximillian Cohen, who believes that everything in nature can be understood with reference numbers. Right at the beginning of the film he formulated this idea in the form of hypotheses:
" 1 Mathematics is the language of nature. 2 Everything around us can be represented by numbers and understand. 3 If you compare the numbers of any system graphically, arise pattern. Conclusion: Everywhere exist in nature "pattern.
As evidence of this he sees inter alia, certain cycles of nature and the golden ratio. Assuming he tried using his computer Euclid to find predictable patterns in the price data of the global equity market, which is a natural organism for him leads her by a computer crash on a 216- digit number. First, he considers it to be insignificant. As Sol Robeson, Max's Go- partner, a former professor, mentor and promoter, learns of the 216- digit number, he mentions that he himself π in his research on the number to a " virus " had reached that issued just this number. The more Max deals with the mysteries of this number, the more insistent Sol warns him of further investigations and instructs him not continue to deal with her. She had been the cause of his stroke and, ultimately, the reason for him to retire from the active mathematical research: "It is death! "
During his research, Max is regularly plagued by cluster headache, which leads him to total failures - in the course of his paranoia is getting stronger. With progression of the film Max begins to believe that we have found in the 216- digit number, the key to understanding the universe and its paranoia seems to turn out to be justified. Several groups fanatical attention to his research: a woman of Wall Street, who wants to use Max's findings for capitalist purposes, and a group of Kabbalistic Jews, who believes the number contains the true name of God - a kind of Bible code of the Torah. After this group believes humanity is approaching the Garden of Eden, when a pure soul the name " pronounce ".
The more Max understands the number, the stronger will be his headache attacks. Slowly he loses more and more control of his life, can be mastered by his paranoia and suffers from hallucinations. To escape his sorrow, he destroyed all traces of the last number, by burning a sticky note with the number and destroyed in another hallucination his brain with a drill. Then he lost his abilities.
Reviews
Some critics see in π a mixture of the two classic Eraserhead by David Lynch and Tetsuo: The Iron Man Shinya Tsukamoto from. Aronofsky himself said in an interview with the Gadfly Magazine about Tsukamoto:
"I'm a huge fan of his. About two years ago, I was at Sundance and saw his latest movie Tokyo biyori. It totally inspired me to go out to make the cyberpunk movie in America. No one has done the cyberpunk genre over here. "
"I 'm a big fan of him. About two years ago I was at the Sundance [meaning the film festival 's note is d n. ] There and have seen his latest film Tokyo biyori. This has inspired me to completely to go and turn cyberpunk films in America. Over here, nobody has dealt with the Cyberpunk. "
As another possible influence Robert Wiene's film is seen The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920.
The New York Times described the film as "a bizarre and perceptive paranoid thriller. " According to Time Out New York is π " intelligent enough to torment your brain, with or without drugs. "
" The depressing study of a psychopath, which relies on the pattern of classic psychological thriller and processes them experimentally. A film of considerable atmospheric density, whose protagonist, the stages of claustrophobia and schizophrenia showing off physically intense. "
Effect
Both Welle: Erdball on the album Chaos Total and Jedi Mind Tricks Violent by Design on the album have included some quotes in the lyrics / intros of the songs. The band autoaggression devoted to their album sound computer science the piece 3.14 the film, and used therein excessive quotes.