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A pill-popping, mentally-disturbed mathematical genius
(Sean Gullette) tries to uncover a 216-digit number that seems to be the basis of
everything in the universe. Also with Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman, Samia Shoaib, Pamela
Hart, Stephen Pearlman, Tom Tumminello, Kristyn Mae-Anne Lao, Joanne Gordon and Clint
Mansell.
SEX/NUDITY 1 - Twice, we hear -- but don't see -- a couple having sex.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man drills into the side of his skull and we see
something splatter on a mirror, but he is alive and well in the next scene. A man sees
another man with blood audibly dripping from his hands into a large puddle on the floor;
the man then follows the drops of blood until he finds a bloody, pulsing brain on the
ground. He pokes the brain several times with a pen (we hear squishy noises followed by
loud screeches) then looks up to see a subway train heading straight for him (but he's not
hit by it). A man finds a bloody, pulsing brain in his sink and repeatedly hits it. A man
punches himself in the head; he also bangs his head against a mirror (it eventually
shatters), finds an odd-looking growth on his head and then shoots medicine into the
growth. Several times we see a man with a bloody nose; we also see him inject something
into his arm a few times. One instance of threatening with guns, a few punches and one
slap.
PROFANITY 6 - 10-15 F-words (many are muffled and very difficult to make
out), several scatological references and many mild obscenities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Mental illness, drug addiction, mathematics, a meaningful
universe.
MESSAGE - Numbers may be able to explain everything in the universe, but
they can't teach us how to live a meaningful life.
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