Anyone watched PI

[dRaven]

The movie..shit is weird as hell

[prod]

good fucking movie though. i never thought i could sit through a completely b&w film but i forgot that it was lacking color about 20 minutes into it.

[dRaven]

Doesnt get much audience

[Hype]

that movie is awesome, one of the craziest movies i have ever seen.

faith in chaos

[cire]

dRaven, do you have a powerdrill?

[Peach]

that movie was sick

[dRaven]

The film is about a mathematician, Maximillian Cohen, who believes that everything in nature can be understood through numbers. Utilizing the stock market as his data set, Max tries to uncover patterns in the stock market with the assistance of his computer Euclid. Max is plagued with migraine headaches that cause him to periodically blackout. He also suffers from extreme paranoia and some form of social anxiety disorder. As the movie progresses, he begins to believe that he has found the key to understanding the universe, but as he closes in on the answer, it turns out that his paranoia is justified (or depending on your interpretation, that his paranoid delusions have manifested themselves in visual and auditory hallucinations). A number of mysterious people become interested in his research, including a woman from a Wall Street firm with access to powerful new computer hardware, and a group of kabbalistic Jews who believe that the Torah, when represented as numbers instead of letters, contains the true name of God, an example of a bible code.

[dRaven]

The 216-letter name of God sought by the characters of the film is actually widely known and called the Schemhamphoras or the Divided Name. It comes from Exodus 14:19-21. The actual name of God, according to Jewish traditions, is YHWH. This is the name that was intoned in the temple once a year during Yom Kippur, as referenced in the film. What has been lost is not the spelling of the name, as in the movie, but the true pronunciation, since written Hebrew does not include vowels.