Movie Review (Frida Novyana Putri 17)

on Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Title : Knowing
Character :
·         Nicolas Cage as Professor Jonathan "John" Koestler
·         Rose Byrne as Diana Wayland / Lucinda Embry-Wayland
·         Chandler Canterbury as Caleb Koestler
·         Lara Robinson as Lucinda Embry / Abby Wayland / Young Diana Wayland
·         Nadia Townsend as Grace Koestler
·         Ben Mendelsohn as Professor Phil Beckman
·         Alan Hopgood as Reverend Koestler
·         Adrienne Pickering as Allison Koestler
·         Liam Hemsworth as Spencer

 

The story about :
When a time capsule buried by an elementary school class in 1959 is dug up in 2009, one little girl's strange, unsettling entry a paper filled with hundreds of random numbers  finds its way into the hands of single dad/astrophysicist John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) and his son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury). John soon determines that the numbers aren't random at all: They actually reveal a prophetic listing of all the major catastrophies on earth since 1959.and, even more frightening, disasters in the immediate future. Is it coincidence or part of a grand plan? Fear and panic escalate as John, working with the daughter (Rose Byrne) of the now-dead little girl who foresaw it all, tries to stop the inevitable.
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 Ted 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 Ted and his son. When Ted’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, Ted’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.
I think this movie is very interested, because its tell us about the earth damage from people prediction, from other religion and other country.

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