Hagiography

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2002)

As debuts go, Darren Aronofsky's has to be one of the best ever.
The imagery is simply astounding, unlike anything I have seen before, and the beautiful uniformity of the black and white visuals dovetail superbly with the unadulterated chaos of the soundtrack, pounding away constantly in your ears, and enabling the viewer to feel an affinity with Max's suffering
As for Sean Gullete, faultless. He could so easily have ended up in a mere supporting role for a swirling cup of coffee or seashell, yet instead links all the disparate elements together, to truly make Pi the story of one man. His later persona is so intensely cathartic to the point of being almost terrifying.
10/10. How anyone could give it less is beyond me