ations of these aforementioned principles.
             In the movie Pi, the need to find the truth is readily apparent in the actions of the title character Max, an obsessed mathematician. As he leads himself into his world of mathematic study and exploration, he finds himself driven-just the same as when he was young and disobeyed his mother by staring into the sun-to find the truth behind the 216 digit number that he made his computer, Euclid, calculate from patterns in the stock market. Max is driven by an intuition that his world is incorrect in some way, namely the fact that there is supposedly no order or pattern in it.
             "The ancient Japanese considered the Go board to be a microcosm of the universe. Although when it is empty, it appears to be simple and ordered, the possibilities of game-play are endless. They say no two Go games have ever been alike, just like snowflakes. So, the Go board actually represents an extremely complex and chaotic universe. And that is the truth of our world, Max. It can't be easily summed up with math. There is no simple pattern."-Sol (Pi)
             "But as a go game progresses, the possibilities become smaller and smaller. The board does take on order. So then, all the moves are predictable-- Max (Pi)
             "So maybe, even though we are not sophisticated enough to be aware of it, there is a pattern, an order underlying every Go game." – Max (Pi)
             Here as Max argues with his teacher and mentor, he attempts a persuasion, to both himself and Sol, of the possibility of a pattern in the world through the number he has found. Sol disagrees with this and explains so, but Max is still driven by that same sense of intuition and want for the underlying truth. Deep down he senses the falsity in the knowledge he has been presented with in his world and the empty void that he must fill; this could be a contributing factor to the massive headaches that Max so frequently suffers from. As Max struggles to come to ...