Pi (1998)

Darren Aronofsky's Pi popped out while I was searching for films to watch for the 31 Days of Horror challenge. I decided I'd watch it as I've been meaning to check out more of Aronofsky's work. I soon realised it was not a horror but I still kept watching as I told myself I would post the review in the future and here it is, weeks later.

The film follows Max Cohen (Sean Gullette), a brilliant but paranoid mathematician and computer genius who seeks mathematical patterns in everything. He is convinced everything in nature can be explained through mathematics and that, given the correct mathematical formula, you can predict an understand everything, and so he spends every second of his time to find it.

Noah (2014)

Genre

Action | Adventure | Drama

Director

Darren Aronofsky

Country

United States

Cast
Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone, Douglas Booth, Emma Watson, Logan Lerman, Anthony Hopkins, Leo McHugh Carroll, Frank Langella, Dakota Goyo, Marton Csokas, Finn Wittrock, Madison Davenport, Nick Nolte, Mark Margolis, Kevin Durand, Nolan Gross, Adam Griffith, Ariane Rinehart, Gavin Casalegno, Skylar Burke

Plot
Noah (Dakota Goyo as a kid, Russell Crowe as an adult), the last descendant of the lineage of Seth, is the one chosen by the Creator to execute his will: he has to build an ark sufficient to carry a pair of each animal's species to safekeep them by the arrival of a flood that will submerge all the lands for a long time.
After building the ark, with the help of the Watchers - fallen angels confined on Earth as stone golems - he, his wife Naameh (Jennifer Connelly), their sons Shem (Gavin Casalegno as a kid, Douglas Booth as a young-adult), Ham (Nolan Gross as a kid, Logan Lerman as a young-adult) and Japheth (Leo McHugh as a kid) and Shem's wife Ila (Skylar Burke as a kid, Emma Watson as a young-adult) will board as the last of the men. When they find out Ila, which was supposed to be sterile, is pregnant, Noah will have to make a huge sacrifice: if the child is a girl, he will kill her to satisfy the Creator's wish to destroy humanity.

Opinion
My expectations were quite high and I've been disappointed, I felt no thrill for it. It's visually spectacular - I loved the creation of life sequence - the cast is brilliant - I loved Emma Watson - and the direction is fantastic but the script sinks like the Titanic.

Quotes
Fire consumes all. Water cleanses. It separates the foul from the pure. The wicked from the innocent. And that which sinks from that which rises. He destroys all, but only to start again.

Rating
5.5/10