03-30-2015, 06:22 AM
I watched Pi today, about a chronically introverted mathematics genius being driven bonkers by crippling headaches as well as the search for proof of his hypothesis - that the universe is ordered by a mathematical/numerical scheme.
It's definitely not for all tastes, shot on the low, low budget of $60,000, with a mostly no-name cast and jittery black and white cinematography. More money though and the director might not have been quite as effective at conjuring up such an alienating, distorted and claustrophobic environment.
Plus the protagonist/narrator is unreliable, prone to hallucinations and blackouts, soooo, ambiguity rears its irksome head. AND it's dotted with nightmarish, Lynchian imagery. But once you get past all that, there are themes here - Obsession with a capital 'O', the dual-sided coin of genius and madness, and the moral quagmire that presents itself when you attempt, so to speak, to look at the face of God. Not to mention the psychological and physical toll it extracts.
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It's definitely not for all tastes, shot on the low, low budget of $60,000, with a mostly no-name cast and jittery black and white cinematography. More money though and the director might not have been quite as effective at conjuring up such an alienating, distorted and claustrophobic environment.
Plus the protagonist/narrator is unreliable, prone to hallucinations and blackouts, soooo, ambiguity rears its irksome head. AND it's dotted with nightmarish, Lynchian imagery. But once you get past all that, there are themes here - Obsession with a capital 'O', the dual-sided coin of genius and madness, and the moral quagmire that presents itself when you attempt, so to speak, to look at the face of God. Not to mention the psychological and physical toll it extracts.
OH PLEASE...