Ivy league stoners, readers of transgressive literature and DIY dreamers, be of good cheer!

Rating: Null/10 (27 June 2001)

Ivy league stoners, readers of transgressive literature and DIY dreamers, be of good cheer! You have found, Darren Aronofsky your bodhisattva, a writer (along with star Sean Gullette) and director who has glimpsed the bravura, heady indie-film nirvana that you somehow knew was up there, and remained behind here in this moral coil to relate to us poor sufferers the wisdom that he has there been granted. Since its release in 1998, Pi has become a legend. It achieves a very high level of acting, production design and editing  not to mention pulling of a story that has to rank among the most abstruse ever produced in the country and some classic `freak out' scenes in the final reel  on what must have been a five figure budget, using equipment available to anyone. Most who venture into this territory singe their wings quickly and flame out, but Aronofsky has created a masterpiece that will stand with other films of the 1990s to future viewers.