Pi (1998)

Faith in chaos 3.14159265358...

Thursday, March 6th 2008 @ 7:00 pm
Theory Seminar room, SB3 3.170a

The mathematician Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) is tormented by a severe migraine since he was a kid, and he uses many pills to reduce his painful headaches. He is a lonely man, and his only friend is his former professor Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis). Max has the following assumptions, which rules his life: (1) Mathematics is the language of nature; (2) Everything around us can be represented and understood from numbers; (3) If you graph the numbers in any systems, patterns emerge. Therefore there are patterns everywhere in nature. Based on these principles, Max is trying to figure out a system to predict the behavior of the stock market. Due to his research, Max is chased by a Wall Street company with obvious interest in the results of his studies, and by an orthodox Jew follower of the Torah, who believes that this long string of numbers is a code sent from God.



Directed by Darren Aronofsky
Written by Darren Aronofsky & Sean Gullette
Genre: Thriller / Sci-Fi
Country: USA

Language: English
Subtitles: English

Cast
Sean Gullette ... Maximillian Cohen
Mark Margolis ... Sol Robeson
Ben Shenkman ... Lenny Meyer
Pamela Hart ... Marcy Dawson
Stephen Pearlman ... Rabbi Cohen
Samia Shoaib ... Devi
Ajay Naidu ... Farroukh
Kristyn Mae-Anne Lao ... Jenna
Espher Lao Nieves ... Jenna's Mom
Joanne Gordon ... Mrs. Ovadia
Lauren Fox ... Jenny Robeson
Stanley Herman ... Moustacheless Man
Clint Mansell ... Photographer
Tom Tumminello ... Ephraim
Ari Handel ... Kabbala Scholar

Movie Trailer

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/

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