not a bad movie

Rating: Null/10 (2 July 1999)

There is more to this movie than just good art/bad art, good science/bad science. Anyone who has done research in mathematics can identify with some of the madness in this movie. Any scientist can identify with the struggle between money and pure science especially now that the cold war is over and unemployed scientists are all over the globe. At one point or another, a scientist will think about his/her trade and religion whether the scientist thinks that they are mutually exclusive or not.
No doubt that the math, computer and finance in this movie is fake. Obviously, this movie is not about real math, computer and finance. It seems that it is more about the way (some) mathematicians look at things.
Erdos once said: a dead person is someone who stop doing math. Which famous mathematician said: God created the natural numbers and man did the rest. ? Mathematicians are eccentric people.
A more correct title for this movie is " the portrait of a mathematician", but who would go and watch a movie with that title.
This movie will make you think, if you like to think about that kind of thing.