Π (film)

π or pi is an American film of Darren Aronofsky, thriller psychological left in 1998. The title refers to the constant mathematics π (pi).

Synopsis

Max (Maximillian) Cohen is a young exceptionally gifted mathematician who believes that the Mathématiques are the language of nature. He seeks everywhere foreseeable sequences of figures, in particular in the analysis of the values of the Bourse. Living alone in its apartment, it analyzes the continuation of the decimals of the number π. With this intention, it uses a Ordinateur which it itself manufactured and which occupies most of its apartment.

Several people are interested of close with its research: its former reader (, having given up the idea to him to find a sequence among the decimals of π), a woman of Wall Street having access to a very powerful computer material and a group of Juifs who think that the Torah, when one represents it with numbers in the place of the letters, contains the true name of God.

Data sheet

  • Production: Protozoa Pictures and Truth and Drunk Pictures (the United States)

  • Producing: Eric Watson
  • Executive producer: Randy Simon
  • Producing associated: Franklin Scott

Distribution

Reward

  • Nominated with the Special Grand Prix of Deauville in 1998.

Around film

  • the film uses the technique of the Black & White reverseal (Noir and white invertible): thus the film does not use the nuances of the gray, but only the pure white and the pure black.

  • max and its mentor plays go periodically, play whose simple rules lead to a complex strategy game.
  • to find the 60.000 dollars necessary to the realization, the team of film went to see all the people whom she knew to ask them 100$, in their promising that if the film went, they would recover 150$, which was the case. The name of the participants is in the long list of thanks at the end of the credits.
  • official Internet site of film was carried out by Sean Gullette, the main actor of π .
  • the English DVD is titrated: pi - Faith in Chaos (pi - Faith in Chaos)
  • the value of pi posted in the sequence of opening of film is incorrect after the 8th decimal: 3.14159265 263124 …
  • the number posted on the computer of max:
94143243631512659321056872390486828512913474876027
67195923460238582958304725016523252592969257276553
64363462727184012012643147546329450127847264841075
62234789626728592858295347502772262646456217613984
829519475412398501

External bonds

  • Card IMDB
  • Official site

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