Useless confusion

Rating: Null/10 (21 April 2001)

"Pi" is unlike mainstream movies of all kinds, but for good reason. There's just no point in all this drivel, and Aronofsky treats the audience like idiots. Just like mindless cultists, people will follow this film down its narrow-minded path, searching for its devine meaning, but there is none. On the surface, Max searches for the meaning of life through a long number, like he's really going to find anything. In the core, there's nothing there; Max finds no interesting answers to any of the non-questions he searches for, just like anyone watching this over-indulgent garbage. There have been alot of good indie films about the meaning of life, but this is scraping the bottom of the manipulative barrel. Lack of color and a techno soundtrack don't make a film inventive, and the director would have you believe the plots very complicated, but in truth it's just very dumb.