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The strange very first movie still of a young author (born February 12, 1969, haha, long live the Aquarians!), Made in 1998 with only $ 60,000 and black and white, which is somewhere very strongly believe in famous Eraserhead David Lynch of (another Aquarius, of course, lol!):

Very quickly, the film starts with four essential data in the space of ten minutes, which will not only be used for any architecture (very virtuoso, a theme also rarely addressed, and pile-pile about 1:15 like Eraserhead !), But also to the construction / deconstruction / reconstruction of the main actor, Sean Gullette , in the role of Maximillian Cohen. In summary, primary , his skull is already pretty badly to wake up (first shot):

Secondly, the skull is said to still show, in contact with one of its neighboring Asian very young, he probably has a rare power and mathematical instant, while like Mozart or some chess players, having won 20 or 30 games blindfolded in less than one day

Third, we understand very soon his strange "sense of the world":

Quarto his provisional design of the beauty of nature, he feels still at its twelfth degree with 400% pure mathematical brain (However, knowing that this scene in the beautiful plane trees, located at the very beginning of the film will be more and more scary, will also serve as the ultimate final plan, in a very unexpected, very positive and pleasant , so I still would call this work a rather tragic optimism, eventually):

Meanwhile, Maximillian Cohen - say, rather, Max Cohen - saw hardly a life of hell, rarely seen outside his home, locked with a dozen locks and padlocks, stuffed with drugs, and from three quarters of his time on his computer to identify any mathematical laws concerning, among other things, the stock market and financial markets:

other words it is quite logical enough he left his apartment with this pretty face hallucination:

Barely able to appreciate the kindness of his pretty neighbor Devi, probably in love with him ( Samia Shoaib , who will also participate in its next Requiem for a Dream ):

Three characters will play to him for the rest of the film and three essential principles: the father, Priest, and that of the dominant woman, in short, virtually the only three people he will be able to attend ... Starting with his "false" father, indeed his former professor Sol Robeson (the only known actor of this film, Mark Margolis course this later in Requiem for a Dream but also - very briefly - on the famous Absolute Power Clint Eastwood ):

The "fake" father - himself already a little sick of having previously sought, in vain, to intractable mathematical puzzles - try vainly trying to change the mind of Max Cohen, believing him to discover the absolute purity of nature, unpredictable, uncontrollable and incomprehensible, as he tries to show her thanks to this fabulous game GB Japanese (囲 碁, which we also tried to teach me at least once in the country, but frankly I found even more complex than chess, which I certainly know the rules, but which I play extremely bad):

second person symbolic "false" priest Mayer Lenny (Ben Shenkman ), probably due in large part to win Darren Aronofsky because of his personal history, puisqu'élevé itself initially in a traditional Jewish family before giving more and more religion to devote himself to cinema. Why, at least initially, Lenny Mayer will appear rather to Max Cohen as a sympathetic character:

particular by introducing them to some mathematical aspects Religious quite fascinating as the hidden meaning of writing in Hebrew or the golden ratio of Fibonacci (very wonderful for us musicians, since the exception of 2, this famous series 1,1,3,5,8 means natural harmonic fundamental unison, the third, fifth and octave):

Marcy Dawson ( Pamela Hart ), third-person symbolic, will prove far less funny by cons from the beginning, so of "dominant woman" specialist finance and the stock market, its simple goal is to offer to Max Cohen certain high-end processors, or a lot of money, just history to win itself more with mathematical contribution of the young man

So what about more (because of course it would be sad to here a "spoiler")?

In any case, I find this very first film Darren Aranofsky (at age 29!) Is in all absolutely perfect, not only in terms of subject matter, absolutely rare film, but also the treatment extremely well mastered all its aspects, be it acting, music, editing very original, sometimes slow, sometimes incredibly fast (as will be even more breathtaking in Requiem for a Dream ), or the beauty of many images, including some big plans for me seem almost close to a table, like this spiral of milk in coffee:

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And even plan where everything is confused:

Not to mention the famous "bug" Processor

The word "bug" coming very precisely, the origin of the dysfunction of the first computers (huge) because of the presence of certain insects to sensitive areas:

Except that there came towards the end of the film, poor Max Cohen will increasingly be convinced that it in his brain that there is a huge bug, and attempt to resolve the problem itself very strange way:

But in the end, I always found the conclusion absolutely magnificent on the final shot of Max Cohen, now become incapable of responding to questions from her young neighbor Asian:

Here at last he is, for the first time throughout the film, with an inner peace, a calm face, a look very bright, large smile, and almost mystical vision - no math! - The famous plane from the beginning, as if only God could make them vibrate as well (and to be perfectly honest, I must confess that it is an experience that happens very often live in the mountains - except that Me, I'm by no cons gift for math, so I am not obliged to pierce my brain, lol!):

very curious little anecdote to finish. .. The person who lent me this film, and thus made me discover for the first time (a student violinist about 25 years) I simply said: "Here, look at it, you'll see, it's too big ... Except the end, there, I understood nothing! Yet I found it rather obvious from the outset, so this is proving quite typical of musicians in general (well-known phenomenon of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts): alternation and rapid exchange between the left brain (analysis, theory, sense of rhythm) and the right brain (intuition, sensation, harmonic ear) ... Rather strange, as a reaction, right? Especially since it is well known that this option is more common among women than men, partly because of the greatest delicacy of the membrane separating the two hemispheres ... What is that in general, 80% of students in conservatories are girls, and quite frankly, I have one thing to say: great!

PS: Very soon, I'll probably talk about the second film directed by Darren Aronofsky 2 years later ( Requiem for a Dream, I just watch me tonight on the heels with great pleasure), but it will not necessarily very easy: first, because unlike Pi, this is a film of absolute darkness; secondly, because one of its most amazing lies in a conception almost musical accelerando on 4 themes (characters), from quiet Adagio initial very violent prestissimo the end, alas, what it will be very difficult to talk on this blog (especially since I have now given up to put YouTube clips film, because in general they are blocked and prohibited in the months to follow) ...

Meanwhile: be nice and good (on) s possible to go take a walk on the next film, Affliction Paul Schrader, where no one has curiously left any "how" (while already almost a score on the famous Gran Torino Clint Eastwood) ...