Poetry in motion.
Pi (1998)
Maximillian Cohen: Restate my assumptions: One, Mathematics is the language of nature. Two, Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature. Evidence: The cycling of disease epidemics; the wax and wane of caribou populations; sun spot cycles; the rise and fall of the Nile. So, what about the stock market? The universe of numbers that represents the global economy. Millions of hands at work, billions of minds. A vast network, screaming with life. An organism. A natural organism. My hypothesis: Within the stock market, there is a pattern as well... Right in front of me... hiding behind the numbers. Always has been.
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.
MAX
(Incredulous)
You're telling me that the number in
my head is the name of God!?
RAV COHEN
(Passion building)
Yes...it's The key into
the messianic age. As the
Romans burned the temple, the
Talmud says, the High Cohen
walked into the flames. He
took his secret to the top of
the burning building. The
heavens opened up and took
the key from the priest's
outstretched hand. We've been
searching for the key ever
since. And you may have found
it. Now let us find out.
MAX
That's what happened. I
saw God.
RAV COHEN
No, no, Max.
You're not pure. You can't
see God unless you're pure.
MAX
It's more than God...
it s everything. It's math
and science and nature...
the universe. I saw the
Universe's DNA
RAV COHEN
You saw nothing.
MAX
I saw everything.
RAV COHEN
There's much more.
We can unlock the door with
the key. It will show God
that we are pure again. He
will return us to The Garden.
MAX
Garden? You're not pure.
I'm the one who has the
number
RAV COHEN
Who do you think
you are? You are a vessel
from our God. You are
carrying a delivery that
needs to be made to us.
MAX
It was given to me. It's
part of me. It's changing me.
RAV COHEN
It's killing you.
Because you are impure.
LENNY MEYER
It will kill you!
MAX
And what will it do to
you?
LENNY MEYER
We're pure. Give
us the number!
MAX
The number is nothing.
You know that!
RAV COHEN
We can use it. We
can wield it.
MAX
It's just a number. I'm
sure you've written down
every two hundred sixteen number.
You've translated all of
them. You've intoned them
all. Haven't you? But what's
it gotten you? It's not the
number! It's the meaning.
It's the syntax. It's what's
between the numbers. If you
could understand you would.
But it's not for you! I've
got it. I understand it. I'm
going to see it!
Rabbi...I was chosen.
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