Cool Movie

Rating: 8/10 (22 April 2006)

This stuff is just fun to think about. Anyone who takes pleasure in finding patterns and governing principles, math geeks I'm talking aboutcelebrate the absolute significance of axioms, of the Fibonacci sequence, of the golden ratio, of spiralsof Euclid, of a mysterious genius, of the even more mysterious Pi, of the Kabalathe secret Hebrew name of God: "I'm sure you've translated every 216 digit number; I'm sure you've intoned them all; it's not the numbers you need; it's what's in between the numbers; that was given to me, it was a gift, and I can't give it to you." It's what were all after, what keeps us alive, a sense that there's something between the numbers. I sometimes think, sadly, that what we are really in love with is mystery, is unknowing, is the blackness of mystery, nothingness, death, a la Freud's death drive.