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We were recommended to watch 'Knowing' in relation to this project. It is interesting ideas of how Nicholas Cage gains an understanding of the end of the world and disasters leading up to it. Some nice CG FX mainly in the end scenes, along with some effects which I think could have been produced slightly better. The spaceships were interestingly different to the stereotypical flying saucer shape which is generally opted for.
The story on the whole was fairly standard Hollywood, it seemed uncannily familiar to many other films, as though it has been constructed out of the ideas previously coined. Knowing attempts to tackle the tricky subject of whether or not our fate is predetermined, overall I feel this was tackled very poorly as the film leaves the viewer feeling quite helpless as the story suggests that significant disasters are predetermined and therefore so is our fate.
I don't feel this is an underlying message which should be portrayed in film, a somber tone of; "life's a bitch and then you die," and there's nothing you can do about it just deal with it. This coupled with the Adam and Eve style ending shot on a planet not to dissimilar from Earth, leaves the viewer feeling slightly robbed of the past two hours of their life.
Synopsis:
Nicolas Cage stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future—and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead.
Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young CALEB KOESTLER. But it is Caleb’s father, professor JOHN KOESTLER (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.
With the reluctant help of DIANA WAYLAND (Rose Byrne) and ABBY WAYLAND, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster—and the ultimate sacrifice. --© Summit Entertainment
I have to say that i feel as though this another example of really good effects being deveolped but over use and emphasis upon these effects. AM
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