Some time ago I told you how much I like catastrophe movies, as psychopathic as it may seem, the way the end of the world or natural catastrophes are portrayed in movies are mostly dramatic and very fictitious. However, the case of the movie I want to share with you today is special, as it takes a very stable suspense and drama movie course, of course, some memorable scenes that go beyond good special effects, I present you my opinion about the movie Knowing.
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An astrophysics professor (Nicolas Cage, as John) finds thanks to his son (Chandler Canterbury, as Caleb) with a sheet that was in a time capsule between 1959 and 2009, this sheet contains a series of numbers that match dates of important past and future catastrophic events, which tries to stop and discover what will be the last event with fear that has to do with his family.
At first, the film leads us to a suspenseful plot, with what happened to Lucinda Embry at the time she wrote the sheet that would go to the time capsule, which can be treated as the first question of the film, what is a mysterious girl doing writing a series of digits on a sheet of paper for a school assignment? We would remain with the doubt unanswered for now, because for this moment of reflection we are now transported to the environment of John Koestler, who lives with his son and we are given to understand at first that there are only the two of them in their nuclear family because his wife died a year ago in a fire. John tries to manage his relationship with his son as best he can after the incident, even though John himself has changed a lot after the incident, being now a widowed father and a nihilist. This is implied in a few minutes of the film, seeing the three environments in which John lives, which would be his work, friendships and family.
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Although everything changes the day Caleb is handed a mysterious sheet of paper with a bunch of seemingly meaningless numbers, I just start thinking about how much the word "meaning" matters in this movie, John being an atheist sees the universe as meaningless, coincidences after coincidences that resulted in life on the planet. Even so, one night when he accidentally places his alcoholic drink right on top of the leaf -which leaves a circle enclosing some numbers- he sees a pattern of numbers indicating a now famous date, nothing more and nothing less than September 11, 2001 (91120012996, to be exact), not only the date was written there, but also the number of victims who lost their lives that day. John looks for meaning, in all the numbers that were written on the sheet, some that perfectly matched dates and affected, other digits simply did not match this format, is when John discovers that this sheet predicts all the catastrophic events that would occur between 1959 and 2009, even with future dates that he decides to wait and confirm to happen.
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In the wake of this discovery, strange things happen around John and Caleb, strange noises in Caleb's hearing aid begin to appear, strangers in suits approaching John's house, but nothing strangers John more than the first event coming true. After a night of waiting for that event, our protagonist finds himself in a traffic jam on the road on the way to Caleb's school in which just at that moment, at that precise moment he realizes that the coordinates of the place where he was coincides with the numbers that were left out, he is anguished by what might happen at that moment and inevitably, one of the most shocking scenes of the film occurs without a doubt. John's desperation is remarkable, it finally happened and the tension finally takes effect in the dark atmosphere of the moment, a plane crash of which there would still be very few survivors, many wounded and of course, the victims perfectly indicated on the sheet. I refer to this scene as the most shocking scene of the film because of how surprising it was at the time, the special effects were very well adapted and the performance of Nicolas Cage is very much the protagonist, he even approaches the crash site amid flames and explosions all to save the passengers of that plane, of which 81 would die that day.
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I haven't had the chance to see this one. Nicolas Cage releases many movies every year, he is one of the actors who says yes to all projects hahaha some are not very good. I want to see the one he released recently, where he plays a vampire, the previous one I saw of this actor is one where he plays himself, it's good. I'll look for this one to put on my to watch list, you gave me an idea to make a mega review of all Cage's movies.
Is Nicolas Cage really this active lately? I haven't seen one of his new movies, but I did see a clip of that vampire movie you say. He's a not so versatile actor in his acting, but there are times when he shines. Thanks for commenting!
Yes, this year alone, according to official sources, it plans to release six films with Nicolas Cage.
Nunca pensé tener la oportunidad de ver este film por acá, me encanta esta película y más por el contexto de las dudas que van surgiendo en la trama. ¿Por ejemplo: qué sucederá? Todo es tan ambiguo, tan impredecible, pero asimilable también. Aunque muy duro... El final es algo que te deja con la boca amarga. Es que en realidad no te lo esperabas, bueno, yo no me lo esperaba así. Me gusta el argumento, es una de las pocas películas que poseen algo muy fuerte dentro de ella y te deja con ganas de ver más.
Justo esa es la parte especial de esta película, no tienes ni idea de lo que pasará en el final por el rumbo que lleva la película pero una vez vista la película, cuando la vuelves a ver hay cosas que tienen su sentido con respecto al final. Gracias por pasar por aquí y compartir tu opinión!
initially knew of Cage as a serious actor until he was known for some funny memes, so this movie is a pleasant surprise to know about, the calamity-centered plot here definitely sounds like an interesting premise indeed. thanks for sharing your review about this film! 😁
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