Easy as Pi Maybe Not...
Some people argue that independent film is a purer form of film when compared to the high budget Hollywood blockbusters. Independent films usually show exactly what the writer intends whereas the higher budget competitors become a mix of the writer’s and producer’s desires, targeted at the viewer’s attention and their money. The movie “p” is about the climactic downfall of a middle-aged mathematician's life as he searches for one thing – an answer to chaos and randomness.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 basis,
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Approximate Word count = 1040
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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