KNOWING
Hi friends in this article let us discuss about the film called "KNOWING", which is a science fiction film that describes how the world is going to come to an end.Even though this is a science fiction film you can expect thriller in each and every scene of the movie.Ive watched this movie on 20th October, yesterday, and in that movie it describes that 19th October is the day that the world will come to an end..Just coincidence.
Nicolas Cage is the hero in this film and he acts as a father who takes care of his son very well.He is also professor in MIT and after his wife death in a fire accident when she was in a hotel on her way to Phoenix, he believed that whatever happens in this are just coincidence because he said he loved her wife so much and he didn't have any feeling or nothing when she died in smoother place far away from him.
Technical Crew of this film
i)This film was directed by by the Egyptian born Australian director Alex Proyas
ii)The music and Background score for this film was composed by Marco Beltrami
iii)This film was produced by Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal and Steve Tisch and distributed by Summit Entertainment
iv)This is a lates film as it was relesed on March 20, 2009
v)This film contains graphic scenes at the climax and they also talk about the new planet, so the studio for this film was Escape Artists
vi)Simon Duggan is the cinematographer for this film
vii)This film was edited by Richard Learoyd
viii)When compared to other English films which usually runs for 90 mins, this film runs for around two hours.
ix)this film was a huge hit as it grossed around 811 crores with the budget of this film being 230 crores.
x)This film was written by Ryne Douglas Pearson, Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White
Casts and artists of the film
i)Nicolas Cage acts as the Professor Jonathan "John" Koestler, in MIT college and he is loving ather who takes care of his son as John lost his wife a year before.
ii)Chandler Canterbury as Caleb Koestler and he is the son of John and he studies in William Dawes Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts and he is a very intelligent boy and very much interested in watching Discovery and National geography channels and especially wild life programs.
iii)Rose Byrne as Diana Wayland, and her character comes only during the last 45 mins or so and she is the daughter of the famous and mysterious women called as Lucinda who in 1959 writes a sequence of number which
iv)Lara Robinson as Lucinda Embry and she is the mother of Diana
v)Nadia acts as Grace Koestler
vi)Ben Mendelsohn as Professor Phil Beckman, who is the colleague of the John in MIT college
vii)Alan Hopgood as Reverend Koestler
viii)Adrienne Pickering as Allison Koestler and she is the wife of John who died in 2008 in a fire accident in a hotel early in the morning at 4am on her way to Phoenix as a business trip
ix)The most important characters and those who frighten us and also responsible for the thriller element in the film are the strangers who comes to Caleb and asks him to come with him, these stranger's form other planets are D.G. Maloney, Joel Bow, Maximillian Paul, and Karen Hadfield
x)Apart from this another character is the class teacher of Lucinda in 1959 and this role was done by Danielle Carter as Miss Taylor in 1959 and they also shown this character as an age old woman after 50 years, in 2009,and this character was done by Alethea McGrath.
About the movie
Hi friends I've just watched the movie yesterday and so I remenber the movie to an extend very well.Fantastic movie indeed but if you are very practical i guess you may not like the film especially at the climax, when the director says that the Earth is destroyed due to heavy radiation from the sun.
Well, the film starts in 1959 at the William Dawes Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts and the opening scene was Lucinda watching the sun while others were playing at the school ground.She feels that somebody was whispering in her ears and the teacher Miss Taylor asks everyone to come inside the class.
There inside the class room Miss Taylor announces Lucinda won the competition which was held last month and was conducted by the Principal.The competiton was that how to celebrate the official opening day which commences the next day when Lucinda was announced the winner and everyone in the class room was astonished to hear Lucinda has won because they feels that Lucinda was always sad and doesn't mingle with others
The Lucinda's idea was to bury a "TIME CAPSULE" and that should be opened after 50 years in 2009 and inside the time capsule all must imagine and create pictures of how the future will be.While others were drawing space ships and rockets Lucinda just wrote sequence of numbers in a sheet and when Miss Taylor asks to stop drawing as it was time, Lucinda kept writing numbers and she was about to complete the whole chart .
But when she was about to complete Taylor takes the chart and along with others charts she puts Lucinda's chart also in the Time Capsule and during the function they burried the time capsule and the believe that aftre 50 years the new generation of the school will see this.At that time Lucinda was missing but they could find her at the School gym with her fingers bleeding as she tried to write some numbers on the door.
Then the film comes to 2009 when John was watching the sky in a telescope and ask his son Caleb to have dinner, but Caleb says that he became vegetarian and goes inside the home to watch Discovery programs, which he likes watch every time, and after some times John warns him to turn off the TV as he couldn't concentrate classes next day.
But Caleb says that he doesn't have classes the next day as the school celebrates 50th annivasary and they will take the capsule out to know what their seniors in 1959 have predicted about the future.
The next day as usual John gives a lecture in MIT and he also explains about the power and internal composition of the Sun as he was doing experiment in that topic and he also believes that there will be a powerful radiation which will strike the Earth very soon.
While he finishes his class he runs to the William Dawes Elementary School as his son asked him to come to participate in the function.Then the school management decides to take the time capsule out after 50 years and the special guest is Miss Taylor who was the teacher during the 1959 batch when they buried the Time capsule.
After taking the time capsule each chart was distributed to each students and as a coincidence Caleb receives the chart which was written by Lucinda which contains full of numbers and while he was watching this number he could see a stranger at a distance starring at him and agter few seconds he vanishes.From this time onwards he also begins to hear the whispering sound.
Then John takes Caleb to home and he finds that Caleb took that chart to home and he warned him this belongs to school and he should give back to his teacher the next morning, because all the other students have already returned the charts.
John was very depressed and he used to have drink at night after his son sleeps and as a coincidence he keeps the glass on the chart and after realizing that was Caleb's chart he tries to clean the chart and he finds something interesting.
He finds a sequence 911012996. At first he tried different combination of this number and at last he tried the combination 9/11/01/2996.This means the date 9/11/01 and he knew that was the day when the terrorist attacked the world Trade center and when he surfed net he found that 2996 people were dead.At first he was surprised to see how the number 9/11/01/2996 matches with the incident and also the number of deaths.
So he decided to analyse it deeply and he took a white board and wrote all the numbers in the paper on that board.But he was confident that it was just a coincidence and he later tried with other sequence,and to his suprise all the terror attacks, deaths that was took place for the past 50 years were also listed in that.
But he could find this sequence after a regular gap of few numbers and this happened for every numbers,i.e he finds a sequence and after that there are some numbers that he couldn't understand why it was mentioned and again another sequence which matches with any disaster and death toll and again some number he couldn't understand and aging the incident numbers ...this was observed in all case.He circled the incident date with red marker and the death toll with blue marker and there are many numbers encircled which he couldn't understand why it was mentioned.
Then he finds another three sequence of numbers were left and the next day he goes to MIT and he discuss this problem with his friend Phil who says this was just a coincidence and asks him not to worry about this.He also tried expalins that the day when his wife died in a fire accident that killed 48 people was also on that list.
Then he decides to meet Miss Taylor who was the class teacher of Lucinda in 1959 and she says that Lucinda was dead many years back.Miss Taylor also remembers that Lucinda was writing the number son the chart on that day and when Taylor took the paper from there, Lucinda was missing form that time and the found her on the School Gym with her fingers bleeding she was writing some numbers on the door.
And later in the house he finds that Caleb who was playing outside was visited by two strangers in a car and they gave him a Black stone,which Caleb felt very cold.He also finds another sequence which says on that particular day 81 people will die.
So he kept on watching news channel thinking that he will get any information about any accidents or terror attack.As he was watching the whole night he was tired and in the evening Caleb calls from ths school and asks him to pick form the school.
While John was travelling on highway to school he finds a truck met with an accident in the road and so he tried for any alternate route using the GPS system in the car.At that time he saw in the GPS that his present latitude location was 42.41 and Longitude Location was 71.20.
Now he checks the list and in that list this was mentioned and he knew that the accident is gong to happen in that place and he also realises that all the uncircled numbers which followed every sequence was nothing but the exact location of the place where the incident is going to take place.The when he gets out of the car he finds a flight looses its control and crashed and later he reaches home and finds that 81 people were killed.
During that night Caleb had a dream that every place in this earth was burning and so the next day John tries to contact Diana, who was the daughter of Lucinda but she refused to help John.After knowing that the encircled numbers were the location he correctly predicted the next disaster which will take place at the Manhattan subway train derailment and he also tries to prevent it but he couldn't and 174 people lost their life as mentioned in that list.
After this incident Diana comes and agrees to help John.Then she also said that her mother said that Diana will die on October 19th 2009 and John also finds in that list the last incident will happen on 19th october and he finds 'EE" in reverse orders and he believed that as 33 and said 33 people will die.But he couldn't find the location where it was going to happen as it was left unfinished in that list.
Then Diana takes John to her mother house and in that house underneath the bed John finds it was written "Everyone Else" which means it was not 33 but it symbolizes all the people are going to die and at the same time the strangers come and ask Caleb and Linda's daughter to come with them but they were saved by John who came to that spot at that time.
Then the next day John goes to the MIT and finds that by his research that the sun will emit the radiation on October 19th and when the Government announced this emergency situation all the people tried to hide underground, but John felt that will not save those people as the radiation will penetrate 1 mile deep into the core of the earth.
Then to finds the location of this incident he goes to Lucnda's school and brings that particluar door where Lucinda has mentioned the final co ordinate and that co ordinate was none other that Lucinda's home.By this time Diana met with an accident and her daughter and Caleb was taken by the strangers.
John reaches Lucinda's house and he sees that the strangers were ready to take Calen and Diana's daughter to their planet and seeing this John return to his father's house and when he was with his father, mother and his sister..a sudden explosion occurs due to sun's radiation and as a result this brings the end of the Earth.
At last Caleb and Diana's daughter were in a new planet.
The IMDB rating for this movie is 6.5 out of 10.
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