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Pi – 1998 Aronofsky
- The film has grown on me over the years for sure, but the sheer ugliness of the patchy 16mm photography is so hard for me to get past. There’s a guaranteed top 5 film of 1998 in there with some nice photography
- Urban paranoia and self-mutilation—Cronenberg in videodrome and polanski’s repulsion comes to mind— the isolation and head shaving remind me of taxi driver
- Stong early graphic match editing of trees turning into numbers
- Lively jump editing with exaggerated sound mix (door locking, noises in his head)
- Same dp as black swan and requiem – his two best films- Matthew Libatique—
- Blends math, the torah, japanse go-board game and the stock market brilliantly- such a bounty of intelligent and exceptional ideas
- Like my earlier review of Hitchcock today of murder! Showing someone acting guilty Aronofsky, even in his debut, isn’t afraid of taking an ingenious and stylistic approach to “how do I show someone getting a headache”?
- POV reverse head mean streets shot (again he’d use in requiem)
- Active score thorough mirrors the really low average shot length
- Repetition of voice over giving time frame
- Half way in he repeats the “stare into sun” line and and does it again for final act
- Eraserhead is another film it lends itself to
- Many fade to gray editing ellipsis
- One nice effect of the lighting is the awful bags under the eyes of Sean Gullette
- Top 10 of the year quality film or right on the fringe
- Highly recommend
Drake2017-08-21T18:50:05+00:00
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