To surreal or not to surreal...that is the...issue.(Pi Trailer - Darren Aronofsky)

Let's start with the basics:
Dictionary: Surrealism, n. Pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation.
Encyclopedia: Surrealism. Philosophy. Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dream, in the disinterested play of thought. It tends to ruin once and for all other psychic mechanisms and to substitute itself for them in solving all the principal problems of life.

The fact is, if you look closely and carefully, every smart and intriguing film that has made you really think a little bit about your life's meaning, about the connectivity of it all, about why the Earth has three types of rotations (yes three), about why your name is Luminita , about so many things, that you probably didn't even notice until a certain scene or a certain frame, has had some surrealistic elements in it. What is in fact surrealism?...It is escape, the escape of the imprisoned idea or thought that you didn't even know you had, it is a sublime visual element that makes you wonder; the beauty about surrealism, as the above written definitions prove, is that it allows you to gracefully run on the fields of no-sense-can-come-out-of-this and return to reality with a new life aim or meaning. Isn't it amazing?!Surrealism is the main excuse for madness and madness is the fuel of surrealism, I love them both. The power of ideas has changed and will continue to change the world every single day, we are mice in the maze of ideas and surrealism is sometimes the hologram of the cheese. See PI!