![]() In fact, it's that photography that makes this DVD a part of my collection If you're looking for something different here and there, I would give this curiosity piece a quick look. Innovative camera-work makes the story even stranger. Not only is he wacked and paranoid but so is about everyone in here. Everything in the universe, he thinks, can be figured out through number codes. Our hero, the numbers freak, thinks the entire world revolves around numbers. ![]() Meanwhile, he wants no part of any of these people. One is trying to use him to make big money in the market and the other is trying to decipher ancient Jewish texts and thinks our mathematician can help. It's not a story that is going to please a lot of people - an almost-demented math wizard trying to figure out stock market codes and two groups hounding him trying to cash in on his brainpower. This is grainy black-and-white, and so is the gritty story and most of the characters. It was made a tight budget since he was an unknown, but that's part of the attraction. Director-writer Darren Arokofsky made a name for himself with his second movie, Requiem For A Dream, and this was the young filmmakers' first effort. "Strange" doesn't quite cover it but it is not that bizarre that you can't figure out what's happening. Now here'a film that is "not for all tastes," as the cliché goes.
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