Another slice of pi

Another link to Pi, is the movie Pi directed by Darren Aronofsky. I liked the film a lot. It's about this guy who is not obsessed with Pi, but in finding an equation that will predict the stock market. He is obsessed by this pursuit as well as some other folks, including Hasidic Jews who believe that his formula will also unlock the words of god, as a kind of numerology based code and another mysterious group who have their own mischievious plans. A geeky funny moment is when he upgrades his computer with some all powerful stolen processor chip, but computer geeks will recognize it as some cheap Pentium 1 chip. The movie is a bit of a thriller as you ponder where this powerful information will fall and whether it is worthwhile to discover such things at all.

When it came out in 1998, I actually wasn't planning on seeing it. But a college friend said that his brother, Matthew Libatique, was the Director of Photography. He's also done "Requiem for a Dream," "Josie and the Pussycats," and "Phonebooth."