I just got back from seeing The Knowing for the second time with a few friends from school. You may or may not have heard of it, I myself didn't see many advertisements about it. It's the movie with Nicolas Cage in it, if that helps. Anyway, so when I was first told a while ago when we were first gonna see "The Knowing" I was like 'Oh, whoopie.' I looked it up and it was a sci-fi, but I went anyway.
My first impression was totally wrong. Now, I have to say: The Knowing is one of, if not my favorite movie. It was amazing all around, despite any bad reviews it may have been given. The plot was thourough and kept you guessing (though ironically, it was about numbers that knew what was going to happen), the performances were great, and most of all the effects were grade-A.
In 1959, Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson) suggested for her elementary class, to celebrate the new school opening, that they should have a time capsule. It would be opened in 50 years, and each child had to draw a picture of what they thought would happen in the future. Robots, rockets, and the likes were drawn by every child except Lucinda. She drew an extremely long series of numbers on the front and back of the paper. However, before she could finish, the paper was yanked from her by the teacher and put into the time capsule (which is important to know for the rest to make sense!).
50 years later, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), son of Professor John Koelster (Nicolas Cage), gets an envelope out of the capsule and it's Lucindas. He opens it and is confused. That night, John examines it and connects the numbers with dates to worldwide catastrophes that had occurred from 1959 up until present time. It also shows how many people died. He also notices one thing, three of these events hasn't occured already.
If you plan to see the movie, don't read this part!
**SPOILER**
One of these is a plane crash, that John happens to be at the location of. Then he realizes the number not only show dates of what happened and how many people died, but it also shows the location (lat & long). He barely avoids the crash and witnesses 81 people die. After this, he looks for info on Lucinda Embry and finds that she had died, so he meets Lucinda's daughter and grand-daughter.
He tries to find info about Lucinda from her daughter, Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne), but she denies everything and tries to get away from John, even though he told her of an event to occur the next day. The next day, as the numbers predicted, there was a train wreck. John had witnessed this, and the next day drove out to Diana's. She realized his words were true, and they looked into it and found out the backwards 'EE' meant 'Everyone Else'. It predicted the end of the world.. and that was the day they found out.
According to John (and the heat as of recently) there was going to be a solar flare that would wipe out all living organisms on the earth. John knew that Lucinda had scratched the numbers into a door in the bottom of the school gym with her nails, because the paper was snatched from her. He went to the school and took the door back to his shed to try to uncover the numbers. Diana wanted to take the children, Abby (said granddaughter, also Lara Robinson) and Caleb to underground caves where she believed there was a chance of survival.
But, I'm not gonna tell you the rest. You'll have to look that up, or better yet: See the movie yourself!
**END SPOILER**
Point is.. great movie, I really enjoyed it, and would even see it a third time! Okay, maybe not.. but it was definitely a movie worth seeing.
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