KNOWING

Title : Knowing

Cast : Nicholas Cage, Chandler Catenbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson

Genre : Adventure, Science Fiction

Rating : Nice with bad ending!

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Synopsis:

In 1959, the new opening William Dawes elementary school use a student's idea to remark the day with a time capsule. The capsule will be filled with drawings of students and will be open after 50 years. One of the students, Lucinda Embry, writes lines of number instead of pictures.
In 2009, Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), whose father is a professor at MIT, received Lucinda's letter. Caleb's father, John (Nicolas Cage) accidentally find the meaning of Lucinda's number lines. At the end, he finds that all the numbers show accident dates and numbers of victims occur in the past 50 years, and according to Lucinda, 3 fatal accidents are going to happen. Meanwhile, Caleb is starting to receive visits of strangers and hear voices.

John is trying to convince his colleague, Phil, that they will face major disasters, but it comes to no avail. While searching to Lucinda, John meets her daughter, Diana (Rose Byrne). After train crash in the subway, Diana agrees to help John. They visit Lucinda's home and find strange rocks, Caleb and Abby (Lara Robinson), Diana's daughter, being left in the car and once again strangers come to visit them. While trying to solve Lucinda's last line, John then find out that the earth will face a doomsday. The sun is forecast to have a super flare, which will burn 3-4 planets around. Diana is panic and brings Abby and Caleb to evacuate and left John to solve Lucinda's last message.

Comments:

I almost chose Knowing for my best movie of the first quarter, but the end of the movie was really disappointing. It's almost the same watching Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull or The Forgotten which starred by Julianne Moore, great films but become real awful at the end. I know this is a film and people can do anything in it, but aliens? Come on, the ending made the movie really tasteless. The aliens took Caleb and Abby and put them in a new planet to start over, just like Adam and Eve. Boy, that's weird.
Anyway, maybe i'm not aliens fans, except for ET, but why would aliens have power to mess up earth's lifes? Just weird.

Fun facts:

• The phenomenon of people looking for patterns in randomness (number strings, faces in trees, shapes in clouds etc.) is called Pareidolia.
  

• A New York City subway operator is seen wearing an MTA logo on his uniform. However, he's wearing the logo that has not been used by the MTA since 1994.
• The character played by Nicholas Cage, a MIT professor, claims the ozone layer can be "burned away" by the Sun. The Sun's radiation ionizing the atmosphere MAKES the ozone layer. The only way to eliminate the ozone layer is extinguish the Sun, not have it send more radiation than usual.
• The solar flares knock out John's cellphone, yet he is still able to somehow receive the phone call from the gas station.
• They are opening a time capsule that was placed in the ground in 1959, when William Dawes Elementry School was built. The building that they are in front of is Camberwell High School. This building was built in 1941 and looks too old to have been built in 1959.
• They talk about caves near route 40 in Groten. There are no caves or route 40 in Groten.
• It has been scientifically proved that there is no possibility of our Sun ever emitting a super-flare as stated in the film. Flares are caused by manipulations in the Sun's magnetic and gravitational fields, these are common. However, for a super-flare to occur, there would need to be a massive celestial object (such as Jupiter) at a distance no further than the Earth, to have a massive pull on the Sun's gravitation, thus when breaking the magnetic bonds, a super-flare breaks out. Jupiter is much too distant from the Sun to ever have that effect and there is nothing else that large anywhere nearer.
• imdb.com