Spiralling Insanity

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2010)

Most pupils were driven mad by maths some way or the other, but the extremes this pic's mathematician hero is made to endure are literally disturbing.
The director's gripping handling of the hallucinatory Kafkaesque scenery is so adept that one tends to forgive the movie's weaknesses of plotting. While a brilliant master of enigmatic cinema like David Lynch wisely opts for a blank-filled narrative , Aronofsky's screenplay throws some obvious parables and rather silly conspiracy theories into the mix, which disrupts the pic's otherwise effectively nightmarish qualities.
Captivating from start to finish, but not nearly as intellectually stimulating as it ought to be.
6 out of 10 drilled heads