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| Topic | Movie Club Topic 4 - We Need to Talk About the Genius Saint Who Killed The Muppe |
| Seginustemple 07/11/21 9:26:05 PM #54: | Pi However some things about it don't work for me. There are weaknesses on the surface - thin characters and vague plot points paired with a ridiculously self-serious vibe - although I guess I could say the same for Enter the Void and I loved the way that came together. I think something about Aronofsky's style just leaves me cold, I had the same problem with Requiem for a Dream. Another part of it is I don't think the math angle is quite as deep as it wants me to believe, and here the vagueness works against it. I do like the various themes - computers and consciousness, numerology and pareidolia, Jewish mysticism and the Wall Street cabal. A lot of movies by and about Jewish people are very self-conscious about the stereotype of greed (A Serious Man, Uncut Gems) and I'm sensing some of that here in the character starting out gaming the stock market with what turns out to be the Hebrew name of god, later rejecting materialism in the name of truth. I'm also fascinated with the mystic intonations. This is random but last year I saved an interesting comment on the music theory subreddit that's strangely relevant to this movie's esoteric side - https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/comments/g0n45n/my_friend_said_calling_sounds_tonicized_stable/fnb64h4/ I suppose you could read the whole thing as the psychodrama of a mathemetician going through a brain tumor. I wanted to like this more but I gotta call it like it hits me 6/10 --- You bow to no one, azuarc ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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