Film-student-style over substance

Rating: Null/10 (17 January 2002)

I saw "Requiem for a Dream" before I saw this. I thought Requiem was a heavy-handed morality tale that started bleak and went downhill from there, to a painfully obvious conclusion. After seeing "Pi," I see that "Requiem was more accomplished: a definite improvement. Pi has interesting germs of ideas but only adds up to stylized insanity. This is the same vision of crazy that lazy film students (who don't want to view what other people have already done along this theme) keep making (Videodrome, THX 1138). If you've never seen this tired visualization of insanity and you're a pretentious film student, prepare to gush!
Pretentious incoherence.