It repulses while it makes you care

Rating: 7/10 (20 June 1999)

I am the daughter of a relatively well-known mathematician (co-developer of "The New Math") and this movie reminded me of my "Life with Father." Mathematicians are a different breed and after he died, I cleared boxes of sheets of calculations from his house. This amused him (the problems, not my cleaning). So I'm saying the film is real; some people, however, take their interests over the edge.
I found the presentation to be a bit too arty, though, perhaps to elide the weaknesses in the plot. As representations of madness, the visuals were effective but also trite very quickly. A lot of it reminded me of Kubrick's "The Shining."
Any movie that credits an Angel, a Mensch and an Ant Wrangler has to be seen, however.