Well worth it

Rating: 8/10 (8 April 2007)

The book "All the King's Men" contains a section where the Jack Burden character realizes he is in love. In that moment he experiences an overwhelming expansion, and with it the sensation that he is on the precipice of knowing everything. The feeling fades of course. No one can live with that intensity for long. But the lead character in "PI" spends most of his time on that precipice attempting to complete his version of co-mingling. It makes for quite a charged 80 minutes. We are introduced into the worlds of others attending their rituals by attempting to tap his genius and the emptiness of all reflects nicely. The end is a bit of a comedown but the journey is terrific.