Collage of great shot making

Rating: 5/10 (11 November 2011)

This movie is best viewed as a collage of great camera shots. It is best understood as a movie used at film school to understand the affect of good shot making. Really the ideas for the camera placement and angles and the way the shots communicate the characters mindset are fantastic, perfect even in some cases.
If you really understood mathematics you would see the hole in the Hassidic Jews request for a number of so many digits. But if you aren't comfortable with math, what little is presented could intimidate you. So from a mathematics standpoint, this movie appeals to no one.
The acting is fantastic, especially with the camera mounted where it is in some shots. Sean Gullete, as Max Cohen, can really concentrate and stay in character. It was all very believable.
All in all though this is a depressing story of a man living alone in Chinatown who struggles with his curse of being a genius. Again, this is a movie mostly for a film school class.