Micro-budget independent film in high-contrast grainy black-and-white. It might inspire a certain yearning for the bygone days when black-and-white was no more perverse an option than 7-Up in preference to Coke. Even in those days, however, this particular image would have been deemed acceptable only for the duration of a dream sequence or an "experimental" short. (Or nowadays, a music video or TV commercial.) The film also might inspire a yearning for a plot premise that would live up in reality to the publicity tag of "science-fiction thriller." (Use of a computer will not alone qualify.) The actual plotline -- the unfollowable quest of a pill-popping, nose-bleeding paranoid recluse to locate the numerical patterns in the world around him, and the intense interest in this quest taken by a Wall Street firm and a sect of Jewish cabalists -- makes Franz Kafka seem by comparison as snappy as Mickey Spillane. With Sean Gullette, Mark Margolis, Ben Shenkman; written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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