Pi

Reviewed by: Philistine

August 8, 1998

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Pi was very pretty, but not nearly as deep as it thought it was, or at least not nearly as deep as it pretended to be. Even a non-mathematician like myself could see the science was baloney, but that's certainly nothing new, or worth complaining about. There were some nice simages that echoes others (the Go board and the bathroom tiles, the bugs in the room and the bugs in the computer, etc.) and these were obviously meant to draw attention to how smart and insightful the movie is, except that if you think about them for long, you realize that they are gestures devoid of meaning, because the context is bullshit - what the hell do pi or the golden mean have to do with Kabbalah or the stock market, anyway?
 

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