Pi details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Joanne Gordon, Ben Shenkman, Mark Margolis, Sean Gullette, Samia Shoaib, Pamela Hart |
| Director: | Darren Aronofsky |
| Genres: | Drama - General, Thriller - Psychological |
| Name | Discs | |
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Pi |
15 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 20 minutes |
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| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | English |
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Furious Invention.
By PaulP from London , 29 Oct 2003[Highly rated reviewer]
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.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(90)Ideas going nowhere
By a customer , 09 Nov 2011Pi is stylishly shot, pacey and has a fantastic soundtrack by Clint Mansell, but it felt like a long 80 minutes for me.
It seems heavily influenced by Eraserhead but lacks the dream / nightmare quality of that film.
It sets up some interesting ideas about mathematical patterns but then doesn't know what to do with them. First 40 minutes or so were great, I was bored before the end. It all seemed a bit derivative.
Not bad, certainly not easy watching, but not great either.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Great debut
By supersolenoid (18 reviews) , 02 Sep 2011Great debut from a great director. Very interesting subject matter, superb editing and very gripping.
Nothing else like it out there.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pick it up, Pi
By vitalconnections (11 reviews) from England , 11 Aug 2011[Highly rated reviewer]
I found the number theory fascinating but I thought it suffered from slow pacing which makes the film feel a lot longer than it is.
The character was very odd. If you combined that with slightly faster pacing it would have worked wonders but I had to work hard to stay with the film for the first half an hour (and I'm glad I did because it realy picks up, though it does get a little weird at times).
I loved the little girl.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Don't waist your breath
By a customer , 30 Jul 2011THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide
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Not impressed at all
By TinkerbellPan (53 reviews) from Leeds , 13 Feb 2011I think they were just trying to be clever. I managed to keep up with the mathematical references but the story was just so....pathetic
Rather than telling the story from the start, like a film! they have tried to make it something that they just did not achieve.
You would have a more constructive couple of hours picking your toenails- Was this review helpful to you?
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