From Daniel P. Brochu Sent Sun, Jul 26th 1998, 20:15
I saw Pi last night and think it's definitely worth seeing. True, I've heard most of these tracks before, but IMO it was great that this stuff got into a movie at all. If IDM was in lots of movies, then you'd be right - they could have done better. But you don't hear this stuff in the movies too often. As for the plot, I thought the themes about the dangers of attaining absolute knowledge and the relationship between genius and madness were well done. The two mathemeticians (& the computer) couldn't handle the complete self-awareness brought by understanding the number and it destroyed them. Ignorance is bliss I guess. Some parts were a little heavy handed though. Like the part where he screams at the jewish cult members that they're not pure and he is - too overdramatic. All in all, not a bad piece of work for $20,000. Thumbs up. Does anyone know of any other movies with significant IDM content? >Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 15:06:46 +0000 () >From: "Nate Harrison \[Toshok Laboratories\]" <xxxx@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> >Subject: Re: (idm) Pi Soundtrack >I must say I was really let down by this movie, and IMHO the soundtrack >could have been a *lot* better. They kept playing the title track over and >over again during the film, which IMHO is the weakest track out of the >bunch (some blasse acid type line with yes! the amen over the top done >very plainly). All the other tracks, while good, came out a while ago, and >for the most part I think we have heard them all already. They used the >first track off of Incanabula, but it was mixed too quietly on the movie- >you could barely hear it. >Music aside, I was also not blown away by the plot itself; I was really >expecting a much deeper movie than I saw. I mean the whole number theory >thing is interesting, but really I thought we were past that whole >cyber/techy everything is numbers and fractals type aesthetic already... >anyway I suppose if you weren't into IDM or didn't work at a company that >lives and dies by number crunching, you might enjoy the film. It wasn't >bad really... >Nate