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I've discussed my love of disaster movies on these pages before and for those of you who frequent these pages the fact that I again relate this info will come as no surprise.
Disaster/end of the world pics are a big part of what I cut my young film watching teeth on so when a film like KNOWING comes along you know I'm going to be all over that shit. Since it came and went from the theaters pretty quickly I wasn't able to catch it then so when the DVD showed up the other day well, I was stoked.
KNOWING does not disappoint.
SPOILERS WILL BE SPEWED FORTH SO STOP NOW IF THAT BOTHERS YOU.
KNOWING takes a little time to get going but once it lays the ground work it really amps up into a major end of the world attention getter. The film opens in the late 50's with an elementary class getting ready to bury a time capsule that will be opened again in 50 years. The kids are all urged to draw pictures of what they think the future will hold so they can be included in the capsule. All comply with the exception of one little girl who instead writes down a seemingly random series of numbers at a frantic pace. A bit concerned and annoyed the teacher collects the scribbles and sticks it in the capsule along with all the other drawings.
The little girl isn't done yet though and hides in a closet in the basement where she is later found with bloody fingers and more numbers scratched into the door.
Ok, weird.
We flash ahead 50 years and meet up with Nic Cage who is a professor of something or other at MIT. He remembers he has to be at his sons school where a ceremony is taking place to dig up that time capsule. He arrive a little late but gets there in time to see them bringing it up out of the ground. All the kids gather around and the envelopes that the kids 50 years ago stuffed in then are handed out. Nic Cages kid get the envelope from the little girl with all the numbers and so it begins.
Later that night at dinner Cage notices that his son has brought the paper home with him and scolds him as they were to leave them at school. He tells him that he will return it first thing in the morning and sends him off to bed.
Cage finds himself compelled to study the scribbled numbers and finds what he thinks is an order to things. He stays up all night and determines that the numbers represent dates and number of people killed at all the major disasters in the last five decades. There are also a lot of random numbers that seem to make no sense.
He shares this info with a professor buddy of his at the college who automatically thinks him insane.
He knows he is on to something though but just don't know what. Oh yeah. There are three sets of numbers left over that appear to be dates in the near future. This kind of starts to take over his life and he is so wrapped up in the whole thing that one day he forgets to pick up his son after school. He gets a call from the kid and promptly leaves to go get him. On the way he gets stuck in traffic during a storm and while using his GPS to find an alternate route to his son he finally figures out what all those extra numbers are. They are the latitude and longitude, the locations of all the events. What makes it even creepier is that he is right at that moment at the precise location of the event that is to happen on that day that is going to kill 81 people.
He gets out of the car to talk to a nearby police officer when a plane crashes literally right in front of him.
It is one of the most disturbing scene's I have seen in a while. It makes the plane crash scene in WAR OF THE WORLDS look like a Disney film. It's one of those film moments that just kind of sticks with you.
The film takes off from there as Cage realizes that he holds in his hands all the info on the end of the world. There are some truly creepy and haunting scenes in KNOWING that you will find yourself thinking about long after the viewing. As the ending approaches KNOWING takes a religious turn and it becomes a very deep and thought provoking film that will actually require you to think and consider what you have just witnessed.
I loved the film. I found it compelling, thought provoking and timely.
Although not actually a horror film there are certainly some horrific moments in KNOWING and I would highly recommend it to all of you.
I haven't had a chance to watch the special features yet but I know they are going to rock. Any film that i enjoyed this much, enjoying the special features is pretty much a given.
KNOWING will be available JULY 7th pretty much anywhere.
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