Mindless pap under the guise of intellectual indie.

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2005)

Last night I was subjected to Pi, and subjected is definitely the right word. I have never been a big fan of the more indie/artsy film, and this film was in serious danger of disappearing up the director's own bottom, it was self-adulation to the point of obscurity and a complete waste of my time.
Man seeks a golden 216 digit number that holds the key to existence, it sounds like it had the potential to be quite interesting....maaaaaaan, how wrong could I have been? From the moment this film began it was confusing, the wobbly camera work was annoying, the music and sound effects grated on my nerves. There may have been a plot but it was hidden very well under a lot of obscure badly edited, badly acted scenes I believe that actors and directors should continually push back the boundaries of what constitutes art but someone has to moderate these lunatics, Pi it seems slipped through the net. This sort of film appeals to the Pseudo-Intellectual who sits spell bound and declares to have had some Damastine revelation about the world or their life as a result of seeing this work of 'absolute genius.' They are, of course, lying....there is nothing clever about this film, there is nothing redeeming about it in any way at all. The $60,000 would have been better spent hiring a few helicopters and flying the cast and crew into a mountain at 80mph.
If you want a clever, evocative and original film with a slightly off-mainstream appeal then try 'Memento', a highly under rated work with clever twists turns and plot. If you want to don your Pseudo-Intellectual glasses and be baffled for two hours by mindless pap expunged from the head of a talentless writer then this might just be the film for you.
I gave this film 1/10 and I feel quite strongly that I was being far too generous.