Editing Genius The Transgression/Introduction (section)

===Movies:===

The Fly. Alright, so it's not a very good movie. But it has Jeff Goldblum, it's got weird experiments, and it's much better than Independence Day. Watch the hideous results of a botched teleportation experiment strip a man of his humanity inch by slow inch.

Metropolis, first released in 1927, mixes cutting-edge (at the time) special effects with a story about the brutality of industrial technology. The story's mad scientist, Dr. Rotwang, creates a robotic duplicate of the woman who is trying to organize the downtrodden machine-workers. The result is revolution and violence between the upper and lower halves of society.

Pi is one of the defining movies about intellectual obsession, with a protagonist driven mad by his search for mathematical truth. Shot in grainy, numbing black-and-white, with a techno soundtrack that can be cranked up during any mad scientist fight scene.