Surprising and fascinating

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2010)

A strange black and white movie about a mathematician who believes everything in nature is mathematical and patternable, including the Stock Exchange. He meets with the Jewish numerical ideology of the Kabbalah and that does not improve his vision. The result is explosive and of course proves what is supposed to be proved, viz. the vanity of mathematics and mathematicians. A film that is interesting only to those who have a certain amount of scientific and technological orientation. And from the very start it is shown as a disease that is the result of the illumination you get when you penetrate some mathematical secret: the same as when you watch the sun, which makes you blind at first and then leaves you with severe headaches when the blindness recedes. In other words a film that orients you rather towards the graceful and slow spiritual dancing of the Chinese in China town.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID