The Characters are :
- 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
- D.G. Maloney, Joel Bow, Maximillian Paul, and Karen Hadfield as The Strangers
- Alethea McGrath as Miss Taylor in 2009
- Danielle Carter as Miss Taylor in 1959
The story tell us about :
In 1959, student Lucinda
Embry hears whispers as she stares at the sun. Later, she writes a page of
seemingly random numbers and adds it to her school's time capsule, set to be
opened in 50 years.
In 2009, Caleb Koestler
is a student at the same school. When the time capsule is opened, Caleb is
supposed to read and write about some of the capsule's contents. He's given the
page of numbers written by Lucinda. His widowed father Jonathan (Nicholas Cage),
a professor of astrophysics atMIT, notices the numbers
have a specific set of sequences referring to the times and locations of fatal
disasters over the last 50 years. The last three sets of digits are dated in
the immediate future.
That night, Caleb speaks
with mysterious strangers in his room. They give him a small smooth stone,
showing him visions of the world on fire.
Jonathan tracks down
Lucinda's daughter Diana and granddaughter Abby. Though apprehensive and
scared, Diana eventually decides to help Jonathan. She says that her mother
used to hear voices and that the next date in the document, October 19, was the
day she always said she would die.
Searching Lucinda's
mobile home, they find pictures of the disasters she predicted, a copy of Matthäus Merian's
engraving of Ezekiel's "chariot vision",[4] and
a pile of small smooth stones near Lucinda's bed.
The last number in the
document appears to be "33" but they discover it is is really
"EE" written backwards. They figure out that EE means "Everyone
Else", representing a cataclysm that no one will escape.
Outside, more alien
strangers walk up to the children waiting in the car. John drives them away
only to have Abby say that the "whisper people" want her and Caleb to
go with them.
The next day, John has a
sudden revelation and rushes them to the MIT observatory, where he discovers that a
massive solar flare will soon reach Earth, making it
uninhabitable.
Diana wants to hide in
some caves. John reluctantly agrees at first, but Diana decides to take the
children and heads for the caves without him. As Jonathan chases after them, he
calls Diana and tries to persuade her against relying on the caves. He warns
her that the solar flare will penetrate miles under ground.
While Diane stops for
gas, the aliens take the children. Diana chases them but is broadsided by
a truck. John arrives at the accident just as Diana dies, finding the small
stone in Diana's hand. He goes back to Lucinda's mobile home, finding the
children and the aliens waiting in a dry river bed covered with the stones. A
space ship descends from the sky. John is refused entry but allows his son to
leave with the aliens. The ships departs with the children and a pair of
rabbits, and a distant shot shows many similar vehicles leaving Earth.
The next morning the
skies are on fire from the solar flare. John fights his way through the chaotic
streets of Boston, arriving at his estranged father's home. They embrace as the
solar flare burns away the atmosphere and incinerates everything.
The film ends as Caleb
and Abby are deposited by the aliens on an Earthlike planet. They are seen
joyfully running with many other children through a beautiful mountain field
towards a giant white tree.
Your opinion?
a very smart movie. full of numbers!
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