Darren Aronofsky - Pi (1998)

Plot Outline :
In Manhattan, behind six locks, lives Max Cohen, a mathematician and computer whiz. Since staring at the sun at age six, he's had terrible headaches; plus, he can't abide human contact except with an aging professor, and he's obsessed with finding numeric patterns. His current obsession is the stock market; his theories bring him to the attention of Wall Street traders. He also keeps running into Lenny, a fast-talking Hasidic who fronts for a cabal that wants to rediscover long-lost mathematical mysteries in the Torah. Neither group is benign, and they pursue Max as his hallucinations and headaches worsen. Does nature offer any solutions? Can Max find them?

FilmCritic.com Review :
"Personal Note: When I was a kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun, so when I was six, I did. The doctor's didn't know if my eyes would ever heal. I was scared, alone in that darkness, but slowly, light began to creep through the bandages. But something in me changed that day. That day I had my first headache."

Thus begins Darren Aronofsky's 1998 independent trek into the surreal Pi, an incredibly complex and ambiguous film filled with both incredible style and substance. To get an idea of the director in case you have never seen him before, imagine the cinematography originality of Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise mixed with the perfect dialogue of Kevin Smith's Clerks and the bizarre and cryptic storyline of David Lynch's Eraserhead. Any surprise that all three of the aforementioned films are black and white? It shouldn't be. Pi uses an 8mm for the majority of its duration and film in a grainy black and white, giving the impression that you are watching a nightmare.

The first large challenge of reviewing this thoroughly intriguing movie is describing its plot. Max Cohen (Sean Guilette) is a brilliant number theorist. He has three assumptions about the universe, one of which is that all things have an underlying pattern, an order. The hypothesis that he creates out of this is that he can predict anything, given enough variables and knowing the underlying pattern.












CD1

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CD2
http://rapidshare.com/files/130345375/PI.b.part1.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/130433976/PI.b.part6.rar
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no pass

http://rapidshare.com/files/77200512/PI_1998_DVDRip.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/77189540/PI_1998_DVDRip.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/77198698/PI_1998_DVDRip.part8.rar

no pass

http://rapidshare.com/files/366636292/Pi.1998-INT-CuLTdivX.by.t.d.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/366635987/Pi.1998-INT-CuLTdivX.by.t.d.part2.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/366634993/Pi.1998-INT-CuLTdivX.by.t.d.part6.rar

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