Disturbingly mind-blowing.

Rating: 9/10 (8 October 2005)

Maxamillian Cohen(Sean Gullette) is a brilliant but paranoid mathematician who attempts to find a pattern in the stock market, but instead gets involved with find the code for God. He is repeatedly pestered by Wall Street traders and a group of men who are trying to find codes in the Torah as he is driven to enlightenment/insanity.
Pi is one of those movies that makes you think and think and think. I sat on the couch for about 20 minutes just pondering on what I thought happened and discussing it with myself in my mind. Honestly, I had never been so intrigued since Donnie Darko.
The whole entire movie was played in black and white which I feel helped the mood of the movie. Maxamillian is a disclosed, paranoid man and I think black and white was the only way to make the audience feel what he feels when he went "insane". What made the movie so mind-blowing to me was that this could easily be a real event. People go insane everyday. Why can't it be that they found something that has enlightened them? As you can tell, this movie raises a lot of questions. It may not be the very well done, but for what it was, the character development made the movie incredible.
I highly recommend this movie.