The movie is about Sean Gullette's character, Maximillian Cohen, a man with a numerical gift. According to Max, he gazed at the sun at some point during his childhood, forcing his hospitalization. This staring at the sun was the catalyst causing him to begin to think numerically. He instantly became a number theorist and sought the answer to nature's randomness.

The movie was named "p" because the actual number p, 3.1415926... is the ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference. In the movie, a 216-digit number is said to be the ratio that brings anything in nature down to its mathematical components. Max was searching for this universal constant, but was unsure of what he was actually looking for. On a daily ba

The health problems were the reason Max was also having troubles finding numerical meaning. With each breakthrough he made, he came down with mind-numbing migraines and hallucinations. The movie became a battle between Max's research and Max's sanity (although Max was not relatively "sane" to start off with). At one point in the movie he had shaved his head as a result of the headaches and found some strange scar he apparently had not known about. He focused all his grief and anxiety on this scar as if it were the cause of all his troubles. The movie closes with Max drilling a hole in his own head showing he was wrong in his assumptions. He had assumed that this number would be the answer to all his questions but it had only brought him pain and confusion. In the end, he knew his number and his answer, which was worth taking his own life.

This movie relates to everyone who has a gift, not necessarily the mathematically inclined. People who have gifts go above and beyond. They set new records and prove the unproven. These people are the stars of society. They are: Galileo Galilee, Christopher Columbus, Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and John F. Kennedy, to mention a few. These people have taken their gifts and given them to society. They have taught people what they have learned as results of their abilities. Without these gifted people, society would be stuck in the caveman era with no progression whatsoever.

Two groups apparently had been following Max at this point - a group of Hasidic

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