I frattali: la geometria della natura nella vita e nelle parole di Benoit Mandelbrot

This is a documentary about fractal geometry. Doesn't sound interesting to you? Same here. But what this movie ACTUALLY is, is a triumphant story of an outsider whose unique look at a stuffy and insular world changed the way mathematics is perceived forever.

It's an underdog sports film with riveting revelations, they all just happen to be about mathematics. If you were able to sit through A Beautiful Mind, then this will be a breeze. It doesn't talk down, it appreciates and rewards intelligence and daring, and it recognizes the instinct in all of us to find the less traveled path and break out from the ordinary.

Well worth spending the short running time to be inspired.