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09-20-2001, 12:36 AM
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WTF is this movie ABOUT?!
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Beats me. Maybe it's trying to say something about not getting carried away with an obsession?
BTW, wouldn't you like to see this on a double-bill with Eraserhead? 
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He thought on homeland, the big timber, the air thin and chill all the year long. Tulip poplars so big through the trunk they put you in mind of locomotives set on end. He thought of getting home and building him a cabin on Cold Mountain so high that not a soul but the nighthawks passing across the clouds in autumn could hear his sad cry. Of living a life so quiet he would not need ears. And if Ada would go with him, there might be the hope, so far off in the distance he did not even really see it, that in time his despair might be honed off to a point so fine and thin that it would be nearly the same as vanishing.
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09-20-2001, 02:19 AM
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Looking into the sun may've "triggered" this ability. Others link it with viewing the face of God, either instant death or imparting some cosmic wisdom upon the viewer. He mentions that ever since he stared at the sun ,he's had these 'headaches' and that's why he has to continually take pills. Also, the sun is commonly thought of as round, circular...Pi, the curvature of said perfect circles...it assumes some abstract thought-jumping from the viewer.
Something implanted into his head: (see above) He had a fascination with mathematics, which is the human race's way of explaining the universe. He (Max) mentions several times that there's a pattern to the numbers of the universe. They continually appear in various facets of life(including the stock market - the reason that Ms. Dawson was after him).
Bleeding from the hand - symbolism of _____; the term escapes me; the same occurence in Dogma when Bethany Sloane (Linda Fiorentino) bleeds from the hand. A reference to the crucifixion of Christ.
I'm not 'explaining' the movie well however. 
Any other questions on how it ties together?
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09-20-2001, 05:21 AM
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"stigmata," perhaps?
I honestly did not get much from this film either, but I had been forewarned that it leaned toward the bizarre side. I do remember thinking that there was nothing really implanted in his head, it was just another disturbing delusion that accompanied his downward spiral of increasing paranoia and migraine pain. Seemed like a large portion of the film tried to be avant garde, but became a hackneyed film school cliche when all was said and done.
It was amazing to see how far Aronofsky had progressed by the time he made Requiem for a Dream, my favorite movie of 2000, though. Can't wait to see what he does with Batman.
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09-20-2001, 08:09 PM
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I kind of figured that maybe the scar on his head was from a previous attempt at a self-lobotomy.
I thought the staring at the sun reference was just symbolic of his scientific mind, i.e, Don't tell me that something is bad for me, I have to find out for myself.
I thought the bleeding from the hand was a prophecy(he lobotomized himself on the right side)
I thought the guy on the subway was one of the corporate spies.
I would like to know about the two brains though. Was the one at the subway his own brain? Was the one in the sink his, or was it representave of his mentors brain who had the stroke when Max destroyed it?
Anyway, I thought this movie was great. 
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09-21-2001, 04:46 PM
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THANK YOU! I hated this movie. The worst movie since Cool World!
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09-21-2001, 04:57 PM
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I have seen the DVD lurking around for a while.
If I can find it for $8 I will pick it, PI Appears to have bizare elements.
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04-12-2004, 05:21 PM
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This is bizarre, I just purchased Requiem/Pi at Bestbuy and performed a search to get some answers, but I think I may have answered one in the middle of reading this thread.
The number that he discovers allows him to predict anything, right? Regarding the mark on his head, maybe he is simply predicting that he will drill into his head. On second viewing, he puts the drill pretty much right where the mark is. Unfortunately it's not possible to verify that he had the mark before he discovered the number as he had hair, and I checked the commentary but Aronofsky seems to want to leave the whole film to the imagination...
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04-12-2004, 05:52 PM
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The film is completely bizarre, and a second viewing is almost mandatory in order to make sense of it, but I enjoyed it immensely.
Man, an hour wasted on this sig! Thanks, Toshiba! :p
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