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“ If you will tell me why the fen appears impassable, I then will tell you why I think that I can cross it if I try” Marianne Moore-

the "Bob Dylan" from Argentina.

Pi (Darren Aronofsky's first movie) is definitely the best movie ever made. To me, besides the outstanding plot and excellent performance of Max and Sol, is one of those movies where you find yourself asking- completely astonished and speechless- whether or not you get the whole message or just a brief enlightenment?. Having seen the movie at least 4 times, I still wonder whether or not having figured out what it means the 216 number, indeed allowed Max to stand in a white void (god’s paradise?) repeating the digits of the number. Is he really facing god or the vision is just another product of his paranoia which provokes him hallucinations? The ultimately fair question would be, was everything a dream and did Max Cohen wake up on a park bench watching the trees blowing in the breeze, at peace, revealing to Jenna that he is no longer able to perform complex mental calculation?.

"...But as the go game progresses the possibility becomes smaller and smaller, the board does take an order. Soon all the moves are predictable , so so, so maybe, even though we are not sophisticated enough to be aware of it, there is a pattern and order, underlying every go game, maybe that pattern is like the patter in the stock market, the torah, this 216 number thi thi this is insanity Max , or maybe is genius … I HAVE TO GET THAT NUMBER , hold on you have to slow down you’re loosen it, you have to take a breath, listen to yourself you’re connecting a computer bug I had, with a computer bug you might have had and some religious house, you want to find the number 216 in the world you will be able to find everywhere; 216 steps form your street corner to your front door, 216 second you spend ridining in the elevator, because when your mind becomes obsess with anything you will fill everything out and find it everywhere, 220, 450, 22 whatever, you have chosen 216 and yo...