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Rating: 7/10 (7 October 2006)

'Pi'is a very different movie from the ordinary ones. Filmed on black-and-white(some people say that it was only to be cool,others because black-and-white movies has a low budget,but whatever) this low budget movie was a financial success and is very well known by people who likes ''cult'' movies.
The only thing I didn't get very well was the ending, which Max puts a drill to his head, and later he doesn't know how to make the big counts he was used to. There are many interpretations to that, such as, was he dead and that was his idea of heaven? Does he did a lobotomy in himself to rid himself of the stress of his math obsession? Independent of that, I agree with the guy who told that the ending of this movie fits the sentence ''ignorance is a bliss''.
Maximillian Cohen is a mathematical prodigy who is utilizing the stock market as his data set, trying to uncover patterns with the assistance of his homemade supercomputer. He has headaches since he is 6 years old, when he stared into the sun at such length, that the doctors didn't if he would see again. But his headaches are a big problem to his health, since they let him debilitated, and he is more and more addicted to drugs then ever. He also suffers from paranoia and social anxiety disorder.(Very nerd, isn't he?) While trying to found a pattern of the stock market,he begins to believe that he has found the key to understanding the universe, but as he closes in on the answer,he begins to stay more and more sick and full of hallucinations. A number of mysterious people become interested in his research, including a woman from a Wall Street firm and a group of kabbalistic Jews who believe that the Torah, when represented as numbers instead of letters, contains the true name of God, an example of a Bible code.