Our world is full with numbers since the science has been developed. We as human calculate the numbers to make things happen out of our imagination described in books and sometimes do not elaborately think about the consequence. Numbers creates so many things such as telegraph, telephone, computer or even nuclear bomb. It can be said that numbers is all around us but we can not acknowledge that it exists.
Director:Alex Proyas
Genre:Action Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller
Director:Alex Proyas
Genre:Action Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller
Review
Numbers comes in the form of technology and so represents future and that is the major plot in the film “Knowing”. The director used this idea to connect the relevance of time in 2008 and fifty years before in the form of time capsule.
As most of you have known that time capsule is used to convey message from the past to future, to make people in the future understands how they lived and what they did in the past but never before that future people discovers a note about history and disasters that already happened during this fifty years and also can predict what the future might hold for our world.
That random numbers note was written by a little girl and was buried in the time capsule as part of dedication ceremony in elementary school. That girl was looked as weird person from other children and school teacher. She looked scared all the time and can listen to the whispering voices that no one cans. Fifty years later, the time to open the time capsule had come and Caleb, a young boy in that school had received that strange note. It was John, Caleb’s father and Physics professor who discovered that the note indicated dates, death tolls and major disasters happened in the past fifty years. He also saw that there will be the last disaster which was the most dangerous one for everyone on earth including him and his son. He tried calling for help but no one listens except Diana, daughter of the one who created that prophecies. Alas he understood what the author of prophecies wanted to say and he had to make a big ultimate sacrifice.
This movie was considered in action, sci-fi type of film for the idea, the aliens and the stunning shot of disasters, for example, the long 5 minutes shot when the airplane bent down and collapsed onto the floor or when the subway in New York lost its control and crashed people. Those shots are fascinating, though they were made by computer graphic; it still gave a sense of danger for the audience and made them get lost in it, unable to move. It looked very real and neatly done.
The aliens in this film are also different from others because they came in human form not with the big eyes, long legs or in green shape like we used to see. But instead the director used Nordics kind of aliens which is seen in Europe. The alien is also the important part of this film because it was portrayed that they are smarter than human; they knew the future which we did not know and tried to help us. This notion against John’s belief, because he believed that we can not know what lies before us, but after he found the truth he changed to think that our knowledge is nothing, our world was programmed by someone out there.
Even though this film was categorized in action, sci-fi genre of film which it really is but it also has a glimpse of Christian religion. There was part of the film that showed Caleb and Abby, Diana’s daughter, as Adam and Eve in the new world.
Apart from the imagination we created, director also gave the lesson in our life. They tent to focus on the relationship in the family which is common in this type of film but, as far as I knew, many of those films ended it with members in the family gather together and understand each other but this ended in different way. Furthermore, director tried to portray human instincts in the film; for example, when people are in the fear situation, they tend to get away from it despite deep down in their heart they know that they can not get away, it will happen afterward but we feel safer if we offend ourselves.
This film is worth time and money for it is fun and teaches us lessons. Moreover it is unpredictable; we think we know what will happen but actually we know nothing like the title “Knowing” itself.
As most of you have known that time capsule is used to convey message from the past to future, to make people in the future understands how they lived and what they did in the past but never before that future people discovers a note about history and disasters that already happened during this fifty years and also can predict what the future might hold for our world.
That random numbers note was written by a little girl and was buried in the time capsule as part of dedication ceremony in elementary school. That girl was looked as weird person from other children and school teacher. She looked scared all the time and can listen to the whispering voices that no one cans. Fifty years later, the time to open the time capsule had come and Caleb, a young boy in that school had received that strange note. It was John, Caleb’s father and Physics professor who discovered that the note indicated dates, death tolls and major disasters happened in the past fifty years. He also saw that there will be the last disaster which was the most dangerous one for everyone on earth including him and his son. He tried calling for help but no one listens except Diana, daughter of the one who created that prophecies. Alas he understood what the author of prophecies wanted to say and he had to make a big ultimate sacrifice.
This movie was considered in action, sci-fi type of film for the idea, the aliens and the stunning shot of disasters, for example, the long 5 minutes shot when the airplane bent down and collapsed onto the floor or when the subway in New York lost its control and crashed people. Those shots are fascinating, though they were made by computer graphic; it still gave a sense of danger for the audience and made them get lost in it, unable to move. It looked very real and neatly done.
The aliens in this film are also different from others because they came in human form not with the big eyes, long legs or in green shape like we used to see. But instead the director used Nordics kind of aliens which is seen in Europe. The alien is also the important part of this film because it was portrayed that they are smarter than human; they knew the future which we did not know and tried to help us. This notion against John’s belief, because he believed that we can not know what lies before us, but after he found the truth he changed to think that our knowledge is nothing, our world was programmed by someone out there.
Even though this film was categorized in action, sci-fi genre of film which it really is but it also has a glimpse of Christian religion. There was part of the film that showed Caleb and Abby, Diana’s daughter, as Adam and Eve in the new world.
Apart from the imagination we created, director also gave the lesson in our life. They tent to focus on the relationship in the family which is common in this type of film but, as far as I knew, many of those films ended it with members in the family gather together and understand each other but this ended in different way. Furthermore, director tried to portray human instincts in the film; for example, when people are in the fear situation, they tend to get away from it despite deep down in their heart they know that they can not get away, it will happen afterward but we feel safer if we offend ourselves.
This film is worth time and money for it is fun and teaches us lessons. Moreover it is unpredictable; we think we know what will happen but actually we know nothing like the title “Knowing” itself.
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