Not as good as I was told it would be.

Rating: 6/10 (12 April 2005)

First things first; anybody who rejects a movie based on whether it uses color or black & white is simply, (as I would say to my kids when harsher words would do better), SILLY!! Of late B&W & degraded images get used as an effect, especially in low-budget indie films and in this case it seems so. I can't imagine what you anti-B&W folks would say about classics like Citizen Kane to Manhattan in which B&W was used as an integral part of each films artistic expression. As for Pi itself; it was a mediocre film, a simple story about a man in search of meaning, meaning in himself, why he is like he is. Mathematics was simply a device through which the story was told. Hitchcock used it often; called it a McGuffin. A device to further the plot, with no meaning at all and needing none. Except that in Pi, Aronofsky went to far or not far enough. He made the device too important, needing further explanation, which is obvious to all the math-heads out there; which I unfortunately am not, and so liked the film more than those who could see through it all. There should have been less math and more drama, more drama and less film technique. This same plot can be transplanted and used in any genre, any drama. The genre itself is the device.