At the deli, he runs into a Hasidic Jew namedLenny ( Ben Shenkman), who seems casual and friendly but has a hidden mission:His group believes the Torah may be a code sent from God and may contain God'sname. His phone rings with the entreaties ofMarcy ( Pamela Hart), who works for a high-powered Wall Street analysis firm.They want to hire him as a consultant. ![]() He warns that he's spinning away from science and toward numerology. They play Go, a game deeperthan chess, and Sol tells him to stop with the key to the universe business,already. Hetrusts only his old teacher, Sol ( Mark Margolis). He's suspicious of everyone.The friendly Indian woman next door puts food by his door. Symptoms of high blood pressure-or ofthe mental torment he's putting himself through. He hasdebilitating headaches and nosebleeds. Max,played by Sean Gullette, is balding, restless, paranoid and brilliant. The movie is shot in rough, high-contrast black and white. ![]() There is a theoryamong some Jewish scholars, he learns, that the name of God has 216 letters. He writes programs, tests them,looks for the pattern, gets a 216-digit bug, stomps on his chips in a rage, andthen begins to wonder about that bug. His hero, named Maximillian Cohen, lives barricaded behinda triple-locked door, in a room filled with high-powered, customized computerequipment. The movie, written and directed by Darren Aronofsky, is a studyin mental obsession.
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