Pi: Faith in Chaos - 6

I suspect very many people have seen this film or will in the future (Not only is it in black and white, which makes it an "artsy" film, but because it deals with the psychology of the main character it involves a lot of sharp noises and is at times hard to follow, notice the double meaning in the sub-title). It is one of those films that is not passive enough for the contemporary viewer. It is about a mathematician who sees the world in the patterns of numbers, and who is convinced that patterns can explain even social institutions like the stock market. He also happens to be on a lot of meds. The director (Darren Aronofsky, who also did Requiem for a Dream) lets the viewer into that world, which is mostly scary. It is a rather dark film as the Max slowly looses sanity as his obsession with the pattern of numbers grows. The film is a really good example of epistemology in film. Max, know that the reality and the world are knowable, but he is unable to grasp the meaning that might should by definition be in the pattern.