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Why ‘pi’ is Darren Aronofsky’s best — and most Jewish — film

JL;DR SUMMARY Darren Aronofsky's 1998 film "Pi" remains his most Jewish work, inspired by his own youthful encounters with Jewish mysticism in Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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FilmNew YorkKabbalahJewish MysticismSpiritualityMathematicsPiDarren AronofskyChaos TheoryImax

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Jerusalem, Israel
"Pi, the film if not the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter, began life near the Kotel in Jerusalem by way of a plastic factory."
New York, United States
"Running from the assembly line to the Western Wall, and back to his native New York, he gave us a film like nothing else."

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