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Rating: 8/10 (27 May 2002)

My favorite film in the world is "Cube," and one of the things that made me like it was the usage of half-complex mathematics to enhance the plot. (I don't see primes as being truly complex unless it goes into over 2 digits, but since it used 3-digit primes, that made it more complex.) Remembering some time after seeing "Cube" about some film called "Pi," I looked at the plot, and found myself wanting to see it so much that I memorized 15 digits of pi before watching it. (3.14159265358979)
Some things about "Pi" aren't perfect, such as the fact that the "supercomputer" Max built uses those big floppy disks, long outdated even in 1998, and the idea of a 216-digit number actually enabling someone to see everything (i.e. the upcoming numbers on the stock market), but those are minor complaints. The movie introduced me to such theories as the golden ratio, theta, golden rectangle, spirals in everything, etc. (Note: I'm almost out of 6th grade--not a safe age to watch this at--so if I seem to not have heard of something they introduced in high school, that's why. Also, I'm using the names given in the film, so if they're wrong, I haven't learned their correct names.) The movie actually has a reason for using weird music--for example, the music playing whenever Max has a headache almost makes you have a headache (possibly when combined with black-and-white photography).
Rating: 10 out of 6 (almost as good as "Cube")