Pi
A reclusive mathematician convinced that a single number underlies all of nature is hunted by others for his discovery as his obsession destroys his mind.
Sundance Directing Award 1998 won
Max Cohen is a brilliant, isolated mathematician who believes a hidden numerical pattern governs the stock market and the natural world. Tormented by crippling headaches and pursued by a Wall Street firm and a group of religious mystics, he pushes his search past the limits of his sanity.
The film shows obsessional neurosis tipping into paranoid psychosis, as the drive for a hidden order consumes the man who seeks it. It offers a therapist a stark image of how the wish for total certainty can dismantle a mind. It won the Directing Award at Sundance in 1998.
Director
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky is an American film director, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1969. He is known for psychologically intense films including Requiem for a Dream, The Wrestler, Black Swan, and The Whale. His work returns repeatedly to characters gripped by compulsion: addiction that narrows a life, the body pushed past its limits, and the punishing drive toward perfection. For a clinically minded viewer, his films offer close portraits of people whose private obsessions reshape how they see themselves and others.
Details
- 1998
- United States
- English
- Film