Erasehead with math

Rating: 9/10 (18 July 2000)

The man who made this movie has almost certainly viewed Eraserhead, David Lynch's early masterpiece, many times. 216 times would not be a wild guess, in fact. Both films use cutting, angles and b/w photography to create alternate realities very well. If Eraserhead presented the dreamscape of a nightmare, Pi presents an obsessional pyschosis. Not for everyone and the last scene is a total copout -- a classic example of why no ending is often preferable to a pat one. If it had not been for that scene, I would have given this a 10.