Destined to become a cult classic.

Rating: Null/10 (10 December 1999)

Rarely does one see a film so well crafted that the viewer does not know where the transition from reality to surrealism begins.
Rarely also is a film so well researched and accurate.
The mathematical premises offered in the film are entirely correct and the mysteries surrounding this number have existed for centuries. I used to subscribe to a magazine called mathematical PI and each page would have the latest calculated decimal places printed across the bottom of each page. The references to the Pythagoreans are also accurate.
For those non-maths people, PI is the fraction of 22 over 7, is used in the calculation of the area of a circle and comes into every branch of maths, particularly electronics. The fraction, when divided out into a decimal does not resolve into a precise number, the decimal places do not re-occur. Mathematicians have in fact spent years looking for a pattern in the millions of numbers, which the decimal places give us but have found no answer.
American-Indian culture recognized that all things in nature are round which was why their tents were round (like the moon and sun). In fact, if you look in nature you will not see a single straight line. The film recognizes this and looks for a pattern in life/nature which PI could hold the clue to.

The decent into madness is entirely understandable and is exceptionally well filmed; it literally does take the viewer along.
Destined to become a cult classic - see it.