Pi
- IMDb link: 0138704
- IMDb rating: 7.3 (192,778 votes) Search
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
- Director: Darren Aronofsky, Sean Gullette
- Cast: Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Pamela Hart and others
- Release date: 10 Jul 1998
- Release year: 1998
- Runtime: 84 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: cult film, mathematics, the letter pi, mathematician, torah, obsession, computer, independent film, tormented genius, creativity and mental health
Plot:
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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