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Title: Dont buy into the hype--rent "A Beautiful Mind" instead
Review: This movie is a classic of the psuedo-intellectual hipster genre. It has the optimal mix of drugs, weirdo-psychotic behavior, and pop mathematics to take the hippy psuedointellectuals on a fanatastic voyage into a world where they matter. The truth is, this movie is more focused on the drugs and the weirdo-psychotic behavior than the math, and so the name "Pi" is misleading. This is not a movie about mathematics nor a mathematician. If is was trying to be, it did a really bad job. Number theory unlocking the secret to the stock market? The number 216? This is not serious mathematics. Hence the movies' plot is meaningless to people who really know what applied mathematics is about--all that is left is the drugs and the weirdo-psychotic nonesense. Two stars.
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