Pretentious Twaddle Imagines Itself Interesting

Rating: 3/10 (24 August 2013)

It's shot in high-contrast grainy black and white, so you just KNOW it's got to be serious.
I saw the "shocking" ending coming from the time he disassembled the computer mainframe in the first couple of minutes. This film is drivel, but imagines that it isn't. The entire move strikes me as being a lot like its Lenny Meyer character: annoyingly obsessed with something not especially interesting.
I get that the repeated scenes (Cohn taking pills, Cohen at the bathroom mirror, the pointless story about looking at the sun, that dreadful screeching sound during Cohen's attacks) are supposed reflect the "patterns" that Cohen believes are in all things, but the rest of the film falls short on so many levels.
It is ably acted: that gets it a ★. I like the break-beat theme, so there's another ★. And as another reviewer points out, the math problem presented by Jenna at the end resolves to 22/7, a famous approximation of pi, so that's a third ★.