Hello,
Did anyone see this movie, Pi?
I didn't like it. It had some good moments but it left me with a headache.
Here is a little something I wrote about it:
I was excited about this movie because, I don't know, it seemed interesting. I just finished watching it and I really have a bad headache! Camera shakes, 5 different migraine attacks, cacophony.... ugh. The filmmaker uses some of those new speed filming techniques (I made that term up) in movies like Requiem for a Dream, Snatch, Shaun of the Dead....but totally overdoes it. And I really hated the grainy black and white. The whole time I was hoping Max would wake up in Munchkin Land so the movie could turn into color!
Anyway, the story is pretty interesting, especially when Max first talks to Lenny and we learn about the numbers in Hebrew words and some interesting facts about man, woman, child, and Garden of Eden. Really interesting stuff. Then later on this is tied to Pythagoras and DaVinci, the golden recangle and golden spiral. It was pretty cool, and showed universal patterns. But once you see the DaVinci part... turn it off. It just gets awful.
One other redeeming scene at the end is when he goes to Saul's now vacant apartment, and sees that their last conversation has awoken the dormant mathematician inside his old friend....and also caused another stroke, this one lethal. Saul has some nice parting gifts of the "216 digit code" and a nice spiral pattern on a Japanese board game.
The whole "subplot" with the potential girlfriend next door turns to nothing, and the Wall Street people who are after Max all of a sudden stop following him... as if they wouldn't know where to look? (This is after they tried to kill him) His headache hallucinations are given a lot of screentime, but since they are hallucinations, what happens is totally meaningless. And then at the end I think he gives himself a lobotomy.....with a power tool.
Then he can't do math anymore and lives the rest of his life a happy idiot who stares at leaves and ignores the little 7 year old girl who follows him around asking math questions.
One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Did anyone see this movie, Pi?
I didn't like it. It had some good moments but it left me with a headache.
Here is a little something I wrote about it:
I was excited about this movie because, I don't know, it seemed interesting. I just finished watching it and I really have a bad headache! Camera shakes, 5 different migraine attacks, cacophony.... ugh. The filmmaker uses some of those new speed filming techniques (I made that term up) in movies like Requiem for a Dream, Snatch, Shaun of the Dead....but totally overdoes it. And I really hated the grainy black and white. The whole time I was hoping Max would wake up in Munchkin Land so the movie could turn into color!
Anyway, the story is pretty interesting, especially when Max first talks to Lenny and we learn about the numbers in Hebrew words and some interesting facts about man, woman, child, and Garden of Eden. Really interesting stuff. Then later on this is tied to Pythagoras and DaVinci, the golden recangle and golden spiral. It was pretty cool, and showed universal patterns. But once you see the DaVinci part... turn it off. It just gets awful.
One other redeeming scene at the end is when he goes to Saul's now vacant apartment, and sees that their last conversation has awoken the dormant mathematician inside his old friend....and also caused another stroke, this one lethal. Saul has some nice parting gifts of the "216 digit code" and a nice spiral pattern on a Japanese board game.
The whole "subplot" with the potential girlfriend next door turns to nothing, and the Wall Street people who are after Max all of a sudden stop following him... as if they wouldn't know where to look? (This is after they tried to kill him) His headache hallucinations are given a lot of screentime, but since they are hallucinations, what happens is totally meaningless. And then at the end I think he gives himself a lobotomy.....with a power tool.
Then he can't do math anymore and lives the rest of his life a happy idiot who stares at leaves and ignores the little 7 year old girl who follows him around asking math questions.
One of the worst movies I have ever seen.
