Today’s entries in the Debuts blogathon comes courtesy of KaramelKinema with a look at Darren Aronofsky’s Pi.KaramelKinema is a great looking blog with plenty of great content to back it up. Head over and have a look if you haven’t already checked it out. After reading this, obviously…

DARREN ARONOFSKY

Pi (1998)

(1) Mathematics is the language of nature,
(2)  Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers, and
(3) There are patterns everywhere in nature.

These are the three believes that our protagonist, of Darren Aronofsky’s first debut feature, believed in. Maximillian Cohen (Sean Gullette) is a number theorist and mathematical genius, he is looking for a formula that can be the answer of anything in the world, from key to predict the stock market to unravel the secrets of the universe through the means of numbers. Max isolated himself from normalcy in order to decode these…