A digital peek at the world?

Salvador 2022-03-17 09:01:04

This film is Darren Aronofsky's debut. From this film, we can also see his consistent style in the future. The fast switching of the picture and the sound of swallowing when taking medicine are the same as in his later work Requiem for a dream; and he is good at The portrayal of abnormal psychology is also displayed here. Not to mention the classic soundtrack, the weird and wonderful fusion of electronic music and black and white images creates an illusion like waking up from a dream.

From the script, this movie is not brilliant, the story of a math genius trying to decipher the laws of the world, and this key point falls on a series of numbers. Some people say that it is a bit similar to The Da Vinci Code, especially in terms of plot, and in the end, without exception, it has something to do with religion. But for a film that cost only $60,000 to make, that's a bit harsh.

Since there are no subtitles, I don't understand very well in some places, and I can only spy on one or two according to my own thoughts:

a. There are many places about numbers in the movie, and the most critical part is that the Fibonacci sequence is derived from this movie. There are the most spiral curves, and the world is composed of these spiral curves, including the DNA of life, the Milky Way, the whirlpool of water, and even the spore structure that Max saw under the microscope;

b. Is there punishment for trying to see the world? As Max has said many times: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six, I did. The doctors didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see, but something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache. ..the constant pain that afflicts Max, maybe it really is God's punishment, as the Christian denomination claims?

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Extended Reading
  • Loraine 2022-03-22 09:01:37

    It's almost an art installation! A well-conceived example of how an above-average subject is played nicely through footage and editing.

  • Marge 2022-03-22 09:01:37

    This pseudo-mathematics teaching film by Aronofsky tells us: cherish mathematics and stay close to the code. The director told everyone that if you want to do better scientific research, you still have to listen to what your mother and wife have to say. I am very disciplined and say that I understand this point. The electronic music accompanied the camera has the effect of massaging the brain's thinking.

Pi quotes

  • Maximillian Cohen: [In front of the bathroom mirror. Pushes a live power-drill into the side of his head]

  • Rabbi Cohen: [a group of Kabbalists, the Rabbi speaks to Max] The Talmud tells us it began 2,000 years ago, when the Romans destroyed the second temple.

    Maximillian Cohen: What is this?

    Rabbi Cohen: Max, you will understand everything if you listen... The Romans also destroyed our priesthood, the Cohanim. And with their deaths, they destroyed our greatest secret. In the center of the temple was the heart of the Jewish life, the Holy of Holies. It was the earthly residence of our God. The one God. It housed the Ark of the Tabernacle, which stored the original ten commandments which God gave to Moses. Only one man was allowed to enter this Holy of Holies on one day, the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur. On the Day of Atonement, all of Israel would descend upon Jerusalem to watch the High Priest, the Cohen Godul, make his trip to the Holy of Holies. If the High Priest was pure, he would emerge moments later and we were secured a prosperous year. It meant that we were closer to the Messianic Age. But, if he was impure, he would die instantly and it meant that we were doomed. The Holy Priest had one ritual to perform in the Holy of Holies, he had to intone a single word... That word, was the true name of God.

    Maximillian Cohen: So?

    Rabbi Cohen: The true name, which only the Cohanim knew, was 216 letters long.