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*****Warning possible spoilers******
Saw "Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage Saturday. Thought it sounded pretty interesting. The beginning of the movie had my attention as well as the middle, but the end drove way off course in my thinking.
First you got some kid in like 1959 or so who hears strange voices and writes down a huge list of numbers to place into a time capsule. All the other kids were drawing nice pictures.
A teacher, Nicolas Cage, retrieves the numbers from his son who took the numbers from the time capsule opening ceremony in 2009. While drinking, which is probably the only way he'd notice, he finds that the numbers coincide with dates of tragedies from 59 till 2009. And off we go finding a couple of major catastrophes which involve the most realistic plane wreck and subway crash I've ever seen. Excellent special effects but downright disturbing.
The problem is although the movie starts out as something I thought was unique and going somewhere that I may have found fascinating. It just sort of jumps the railroad tracks.
It sort of leads you to believe there is something more spiritual going on at the beginning. Nicolas Cage teaching science class ponders at the beginning of the movie how the sun is just the right distance from the earth to sustain life. He questions could there be order to the universe. A purpose perhaps? Utterly despaired looking downward he proclaims to his class and himself that basically there is no order just *&^% happens. Seemed to me he made an excellent argument against evolution with those few statements. How discouraging a world view in my opinion to believe there is no purpose in life just random chance.
So it seemed the numbers might be perhaps some kind of warning from God. Mysterious men kept showing up sneaking around scaring Cage to death. Could they be Angels?
So like I said the action builds. I'm like, "wow" to these awesome disasters scenes and waiting for an ending that answers all my questions, right, but instead the answer doesn't fit the question. It did not explain why the numbers were originally given to a little girl in 1959, or why or how they predicted disasters that would seemingly be random unpredictable events only God would know. The final disaster I will say could be predicted, but it just doesn't fit in my way of thinking the logic of the first half of the film. Just seems forced to give an ending. They had to go somewhere so they did. I think they should have sat around and brainstormed a while longer and came up with something a little more unique and less depressing for that matter.
I think I should have waited for the DVD, but then the effects were pretty awesome on the bigscreen.
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