There are some nice scenes shot near Harvard in this movie and
Wittgenstein appears, who can also be considered half mathematician.
This "coming of age" movie might have been motivated by
"Of time and the river".
Critics have called it "a mess". In IMDB, one can read:
"This film has to be the most pretentious bunch of garbage I've ever seen."
I must say that the quality of the movie and sound is terrible even for 2001.
The LSD trip shots were probably motivated by an computer app which was a
tool to deform faces.