The movie has several scenes that I really liked, since they have a rather strong symbolic relevance, because the protagonist, in several discussions with his teacher and friend, is motivated to move away partly from reasoning and is motivated to look for his intuition.

I remember four scenes a lot, the first one, of them, is when the protagonist is obsessed with getting his research and understanding the meaning of the 216 digits that a bug gives him that provokes its formula on the computer.

1- In this scene, he goes on a train, they have some visions and he falls asleep, when he wakes up, he gets off the station and goes to the seashore, hay washes his face with salt water, and when he starts thinking about the number problem again, he sees a lady with a metal detector, looking for treasures.

At those moments, the image focuses on the lady, who discovers an object on the seashore, picks it up in her hand, observes it, puts on a happy face and, subsequently, leaves it in its same place on the seashore and retires. The intrigued protagonist goes to see the object that the lady saw and sees that it is a snail shell, he takes it, and when he sees in it he realizes the natural patterns that are formed in a kind of circumference, and realizes that from that pattern that he links, with the 216 digits found by his formula, and sees that from there the pattern of hurricanes, of sea and air currents is born, as well as the shape of the milky way and identifies other natural patterns.

And for me, from the symbolic point of view, the scene represents the search for truth, and the encounter of it through intuition and experience, and not only through the use of reason.

2- There is another scene, where Maximillian, the protagonist, is talking to his teacher, and the teacher tells him that he should rest and not obsess, and then gives him as an example of the world and the universe, a board of the game Go and explains to him, that the universe and the world is like the board without the tiles, ordered, structured, organized.

And then he tells her, that when the players place the game tiles, the world looks in chaos and disorderly. But in reality, the world and the universe looks like this according to the vision of the players, since order is permanently present in the midst of chaos, but the player does not see it and does not understand it, because he only sees the superficial, which are the stones in the game, which does not allow him to see the background reality. Scene that has a great philosophical and spiritual value.

3- There is a scene, where Maximillian talks to a Rabbi, who asks for the numbers, the 216 digits, and at the end tells him a legend, and ends up telling the protagonist, that with those numbers, the true name of God will be known and, therefore, the messianic era will be reached faster.

Maximillian, refuses to give the number, and tells him that the real value is not in the number, but in understanding what is between each number, and that now he was understanding. Symbolically, the scene reflects, the search and the knowledge of oneself through intuition.

4-In some of the final scenes, Maximillian, has a huge crisis, and in it he decides not to take the medications, or that causes a worse crisis, where he ends up destroying the computer and his research process, later other scenes are seen that reflect the death of the protagonist, with gloomy backgrounds. To end up in a scene, with a white background and images of tree leaves, which would mean his personal rebirth.

The film ends, with a Maximillian freed from paranoia and his complexes, sitting in a park, enjoying nature and sharing with a girl.

For me it is a very interesting film, which as I said earlier, has philosophical, sociological, religious and scientific components.

It tells us a struggle between rationalistic vision and intuition, shows us different ways of seeing the world and gives us a number of symbolic elements, which will greatly enrich those who understand them.

For many people it will not be an easy movie, which is logical, since it is experimental cinema. But I personally liked it and I would recommend watching it.

It is a film that was made with 60 thousand dollars, which were obtained through bond sales and support from acquaintances.

It is a film made at 16 millimeters, in high contrast black and white color.

The film grossed more than three million two hundred thousand dollars at the box office.

The film won the 1998 Sundance and Independent Spirit Awards.

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