Pi

Production and year: USA, 1998 Genre: thriller, drama Screenplay: Eric Watson, Sean Gullette Director: Darren Aronofsky Music: Clint Mansell Cast: Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis Medical topics: epilepsy, delusions, overvaThe black-and-white cinematography presents a dark picture of the world as seen by the protagonist, while the somber, heavy, and atmospheric soundtrack underscores his tense and anxious emotional state. Sean Gullette excelled in the role of a person with multifaceted central nervous system dysfunctions. Description: The film’s protagonist, Max Cohen, a brilliant mathematician who sees mathematical patterns in every detail of the world, is obsessively driven to discover a formula describing the universe, using the decimal expansion of pi. To this end, he spends years building a supercomputer to assist him in his calculations. Despite his professor’s advice to abandon his research because it is becoming dangerous for him, he becomes increasingly lost in it, losing touch with reality. He sees the only meaning in life in the search for a pattern in the infinite non-repeating decimal of pi. His research begins to attract the interest of an informal organization linked to the stock market, whose formula describing stock prices would enable full control over Wall Street; on the other hand, a group of Orthodox Jews also takes an interest in the formula, believing that a universal formula would bring them closer to the mysteries of God. At the same time, Max suffers from chronic epileptic seizures, which, despite high doses of medication, cause him to frequently lose consciousness and, combined with persecutory delusions, lead him to isolate himself almost completely from society. It turns out, tragically, that his illness is inextricably linked to his mathematical talent. luation