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Finally got round to seeing Pi, a film my friends had been urging me to see since it came out. I'm still not sure what to make of it. I like the fact that someone had the courage to make a film about mathematics, with very little action and no love interest. I liked the references to Go and the Qabalah, though it didn't really go deep enough into either of them. I could handle the black-and-white photography, though a lot of it was too obviously imitating Eraserhead.

But for a film supposedly about mathematics, there wasn't actually all that much math in it. It had a lot of numbers, but there was probably more mathematical theory in Jurassic Park. I'm no mathematician myself, but I do find mathematical ideas interesting: recursion, chaos theory, etc.. What I was hoping for was something about the relation between these ideas and the world, but after a very promising beginning, Pi turned into another of those "crazy mathematician" stories. I expect I will find A Beautiful Mind similarly dissappointing.

Maybe the film is meant to be like the number.