geomagneto

What’s a fractal? Why is Mandelbrot, their founder, on the run from a Mexican drug cartel? Who is Ennio Montoya? These questions and others are not fully answered since half of them are discontinuous geometries. In this fantabulisimo documentary about fractals we first learn about Mandelbrot's youth. His grooming under the tutelage of a formalist uncle and his escape to eccentric mathematicians. Told primarily by the man himself intercut with narrator, Martin Shaw, who seems like he’s on a 2 hour fractal safari. The movie runs like a scripted autobiography. Good editing, montages and best of all fractal art leaning more on the connection with complex mathematical concepts like p0 = z, pn+1 = pn2 + z which if you plug-in to a casio will reveal the location of that Mandelbrotian Mexican treasure.