Pi (1998)

• Year: 1998
• Released: 10 Jul 1998
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 8 wins & 12 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Pi
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/pi
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Hebrew
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
• Runtime: 84 min
• Writer: Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette, Eric Watson
• Director: Darren Aronofsky
• Cast: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman
• Keywords: new york city, paranoia, insanity, hacker, mathematics,

	7.3/10
	72/100
	88% – Critics
	85% – Audience

Pi Storyline

The mathematician Maximillian Cohen is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson. Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any system, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by a Chasidic Torah scholar, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God.

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Pi Movie Reviews

Although difficult to watch, a wild and amazingly unique independent film.

“Pi” is an amazing independent films. Darren Aronofsky had never made a feature film and was barely able to scrape together the $60,000 needed to make this film. Despite this pitifully small budget, he managed to make a remarkably watchable film AND it caught the eyes of the ‘big boys’–and soon he was given $1,000,000 for his film! While not quite as insanely successful as “The Blair Witch Project” (which came out the following year), unlike the filmmakers of this other project, Aronofsky has gone on to greater things–including the wildly successful and critically acclaimed “Black Swan” as well as “The Wrestler”.

Describing the look of the film is VERY difficult. Sure, it’s cheap but Aronofsky managed to get past this by using black & white and deliberately making the print very grainy–giving it a wonderfully surreal look. I am not exactly sure how he did this but it worked well. And, because he wasn’t able to use top equipment, it has a bit of a homemade look–which I was able to look past. Much of this was because the plot was so wild and surreal as well as very stylish.

Describing the plot…well that’s even MORE difficult! It’s a strange tale about a man who is on the edge of losing his mind. He is convinced that everything in nature and life can be quantified and explained through mathematics. And, given that you can find the correct mathematical formula, you can predict and understand EVERYTHING. So Maximillian spends nearly every second of his waking day devoted to this all-encompassing task. He avoids relationships, is very unkempt and is a miserable excuse for a human being. And, eventually it all begins to take its toll as he begins to hallucinate and experiencing excruciating pain in his body and brain. What’s next for this incredibly strange man with his seemingly impossible task? See the film!

This is a very, very difficult film to rate. It gets very high marks for originality and it is entertaining. However, it’s NOT a film for the mainstream. The average Joe would probably find it all just too weird and too confusing. But, if you want something different and are patient, it’s well worth seeing.

Very impressive debut from Darren Aronofsky

I heard much about this film, and having been so impressed with Darren Aronofsky’s other work especially The Wrestler and Requiem for a Dream I was all for seeing it. And I found it was very good, certainly an impressive debut for Aronofsky. It is probably my least favourite of what I’ve seen so far of his, however that doesn’t mean it is bad at all, far from it.

Aronofsky’s films are not for all, I think of his films I think his most accessible is The Wrestler, Requiem for a Dream is very hard-hitting with its theme, Black Swan’s psychology is intense and very hard to take, The Fountain is very philosophical and perplexing and some may find Pi’s film techniques too much at first. But actually, I don’t consider these a bad thing, if anything that’s why his films are so fascinating to me.

And I have to say I loved Pi’s gritty film technique and thought it added much to the concept and tone of the film. The soundtrack is excellent, it broods with intensity and is very cleverly used. The script is both intelligent and bizarre, and the story in general is compelling and benefits from such an interesting concept, I have to say of Aronofsky’s films I’d say Pi had the most intriguing idea.

Darren Aronofsky once again does a fine job directing, while the acting led by a charismatic Sean Gulette is very good. The pace generally is good, but loses its way a tad in the final third or so, and I also think it was about 5 or 6 minutes too short. But these don’t harm the film too much considering how much promise it had and how much it delivered this.

Overall, very impressive. 8/10 Bethany Cox

Intriguing indie, somewhat overrated

A tiring, slightly pretentious indie flick which makes up for its lack of budget with plenty of imagination on the part of writer/director Darren Aronofsky, who mingles such diverse topics as Jewish religion, complex mathematics, Greek mathematicians, mental illness, and Wall Street into a quirky and unpredictable whole. Although the film shares some of the same style and hyper-kinetic energy as something like TETSUO, generally it’s a watchable enough movie with strong acting from lead Sean Gullette to make it worth sitting through. The heavy subject of complex number theory and advanced mathematics is an off-putting one, but don’t be because the maths stuff is explained for those who aren’t good with figures and generally skipped over anyway, shown without being too complex.

PI takes in various elements from different genres. The idea that numbers can explain the universe is nothing but straight science fiction (or is it?) whilst there are many surrealist touches like the train station interlude where Gullette chases along a trail of blood only to discover a huge brain – his own – at the end of the line. The various moments in which he experiences horrendous migraines are pretty disturbing to watch, with the soundtrack full of ear-splitting screeches and upsetting visuals on screen (Gullette brains himself, and smashes his head into a wall repeatedly). The intense music used throughout the film adds to the experience and the visual look is made distinctive by some grainy black and white photography.

On the downside, the ending is abrupt and something of a foregone conclusion. I was left thinking “was that it?”. PI is a film that is deliberately complex and attempts to lose the viewer at every turn, and I don’t think any person would be capable of understanding what everything means throughout. Sure, it’s different, about 180 degrees from standard predictable Hollywood fare, but does this necessarily make it a good movie? I think not. It’s original and the guys who made it were obviously talented, but this is not the masterpiece some people seem to think it is (all I heard about this were rave reviews for four years until I actually saw it).