The Franz Kafka for the 1990s!

Rating: Null/10 (1 October 2001)

A great breakbeat-soundtrack, black and white photography, rapid cuts and a bizarre and surreal story about a young eccentric mathematics-genius who decodes a 216-digit number that might be the name of God make "Pi" being one of the most interesting movies shot in the last decade! The atmosphere is dark and ominous, main actor Sean Gullette is great in playing the leading role! Similar to the characters featured in the books of writer Franz Kafka main person Max is full of existential anxiety, sealed off from the world outside, living in his own cyberspace that consists of formulas and computers chips. One day he gets too close to God and his own brilliancy becomes his fate. Max becomes hunted by some Wallstreet-brokers as well as a religious Jewish community. The only way to escape from this nightmare is to eliminate his old identity...