Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998)

Jagged style, representing the overwhelming sensory input of the protagonist.

Protagonist not a nice guy. Empathy / sympathy created through his migraine attacks and the fact that everybody else is more vicious.

Story: mysticism, codecs, pattern, logic, higher truth.

Why does the rabbi let him go?

Devices: Go. Neighbour (in love, he does not respond). Stock market. Black & white, migraines. God in Bugs.

Repetition. (patterns?). Tell a story through the differences in repetition.