Pi Details

Furious Invention.

Darren Aronofsky has taken a defiantly unfilmable story and created something really quite startling. The film documents mathematician Max's struggle with both his sanity and the mysterious Pi, the enigmatic ratio of a circle's circumference to diameter. Max believes that Pi holds the key to discerning hidden structures in the universe and to this end he is pursued by a multinational finance company who hope his discovery will lead to complete mastery of the global stock market.

Reminiscent of early David Lynch (especially Eraserhead), Pi is shot in gloriously dense, grainy black and white. The light is uniformly harsh, throwing deep, chiascuro shadows and rendering liquids positively mercurial.

Despite it's surrealist leanings, the film is strongly characterised and plotted, with more than a nod toward film noir traditions. The cerebral script is wonderfully visualised and you are left appreciating just what you can do with a hand-held camera, an intelligent script and a lot of imagination.

I enjoyed this film because of its mathematical intrigue,the science of numerology but apart from that i don't know why i enjoyed it,i just did.