Low Budget + 216 = Rabbi+Genius

Rating: Null/10 (11 November 2002)

POSSIBLE SPOILERS HEREIN
Pi: That annoying little number that they never told you how it was calculated back in ???? B.C. Fortunately, it isn't the central theme in this movie, or else it would've been a dark, depressing, and boring movie. In truth, it's about truth, and truth in chaos, just as the tagline suggests. Max's thesis: there are patterns everywhere, is a very Hebrew statement, although Max himself doesn't realize it, he's trying to prove the existence of God. Oddly enough, he's actually an atheist (I think). Eventually, he has another epiphany, one that he has been working up to, what with the constant medication and emersion in mathematics. His first, if you're wondering, occured when he stared at the sun. Since that moment, that "divine experience" he spends his entire life trying to work back up to that heightened awareness, and when he finally realizes the true genius of creation he realizes that he can't possibly understanding it, and is thus forced to accept the idea of an infinite pattern.