Pi – System im Chaos (1998)
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Storyline
In NYC’s Chinatown, recluse math genius Max (Sean Gullette) believes “everything can be understood in terms of numbers,” and he looks for a pattern in the system as he suffers headaches, plays Go with former teacher Sol Robeson (Mark Margolis), and fools around with an advanced computer system he’s built in his apartment. Both a Wall Street company and a Hasidic sect take an interest in his work, but he’s distracted by blackout attacks, hallucinations, and paranoid delusions..
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Trivia
Michael Drosnin has a theory that if the Biblical Text is put through a computer and letters are selected at certain regular intervals, a decoded message emerges that predicts the future. Skeptics observe that he keeps trying it until it appears to work. This is a modern sophistication of a hobby that Isaac Newton sometimes indulged in, finding mathematically hidden messages in the Bible. See more »
Goofs
Max shaves his head and draws a square around the bulge on the side of his head. Later on, when Max is chasing a photographer from the subway, there is no square on his head. This could be due to time shifts in the story, and hallucinations had by Max. Making the actual linear time of events impossible to tell for sure. See more »
Quotes
[first lines]
Maximillian Cohen:
9:13, Personal note: When I was a little kid my mother told me not to stare into the sun. So once when I was six I did. The doctors didn’t know if my eyes would ever heal. I was terrified, alone in that darkness. Slowly, daylight crept in through the bandages, and I could see. But something else had changed inside of me. That day I had my first headache.
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Crazy Credits
BENEFACTORS Mr. and Mrs. Fordyce Rallo Family Super-T Wordsound Posse See more »
Alternate Versions
DVD version includes deleted scenes:
- Max being threatened by Farrouhk, Devi’s jealous boyfriend;
- Max climbing up a pile of discarded computer parts and monitors;
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Connections
Referenced in Logos (2013)
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Soundtracks
A Low Frequency Inversion Field
Performed by Spacetime Continuum
Written & Produced by Spacetime Continuum
Courtesy of Astralwerks/Caroline Records, Inc./Space Monkey Music/BMI
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Details
Release Date:
8 April 1999 (Germany)
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Also Known As:
Pi – System im Chaos
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Box Office
Budget:
$60,000
(estimated)
Opening Weekend USA:
$31,069,
12 July 1998
Gross USA:
$3,221,152
Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$3,221,152
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Technical Specs
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Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1
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