First off, I would like to say that this should be declared the film most likely to induce an epileptic seizure.

Now that I got that off my chest…

I will be the first person to declare my hatred of math in a group of people. This film, aside from simply being interesting because of Max’s utter insanity and obsession, shows the a most intriguing side of math that I don’t see very often.

I was extremely interested in the mathematical code of the Torah and want to look into that a bit more. The idea of the number creating an instant of self-awareness in the computer was the scene that grabbed me most intensely, I would have liked to hear more about it from the characters.

Ultimately I wonder, did Max find happiness? I would suppose so but then again one could always counter with: Is ignorance (or lack of genius in this case) bliss?

I saw this movie when it first came out, in Spokane, probably among the most goyische places that would actually have it in a theater. I was probably the only one in the movie theater who had an idea of how Chabad approaches Jews with their form of evangelism.

I loved this movie, probably because it was so strange.

I saw it again recently with my husband, checking it out of the library. It has themes I’m interested in: numbers, Jewish mysticism, the financial marketplace. But I don’t need to drill holes in my head when I have a migraine – the MRI showed I already have a few there.

I began having severe retro-ocular headaches soon after watching this movie. I guess it was too subjective! As a research engineer and a psychotherapist, I found the movie doubly fulfilling.

Um. Indie. That pretty much describes it. It’s very artsy…a bit hard to follow. But good for math nerds and psychological geeks. Like me.