: Filmed in high-contrast, grainy black-and-white, the movie uses a manic, "frenetic" editing style to mirror Max’s deteriorating mental state.

Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers.

If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.

: Max's central philosophy is built on three pillars: Mathematics is the language of nature.

: Maximilian Cohen is an unemployed, reclusive number theorist living in a disheveled New York apartment. Suffering from debilitating cluster headaches and paranoia, he lives behind multiple locks, obsessed with the idea that everything in nature can be understood through numbers.

: Max is pursued by two groups with conflicting interests: