Professor Jonathan "John" Koestler (Nicholas Cage), a professor of 'Astronomy' at the university in his town, lived with her son Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury). His wife had died in a fire while performing his duties. But his life changed after that incident, less attention to their children and often have a drink at night.
Earlier in 1959 there was a school performs an activity, the school's time capsule, set to be opened in 50 years. Capsule will be filled by the images of the future that will be drawn by the student's school. And one of the students are Lucida Embry (Lara Robinson) who always hears the whispers. When other students drawn the future, he even wrote the numbers that he heard the sound of whispering it. And when Mrs. Taylor (Danielle Carter), told they that the drawing is finished, Lucida doesn't want to stop writing and Mrs. Taylor took the paper and put it into an envelope that have label Lucida. However Lucida was silent.
2009. Caleb was a student of the same school with Lucinda. And this year there is the opening of the school's time capsule. When the capsule was opened, Mrs. Taylor (Alethea McGrath) as a guest on the show to share the letters. Caleb gets a letter from Lucida. When opening the letter he was surprised because he's just a get a picture like that, a number that is written at random. When he enter the letter into the envelope, he saw someone standing far in front and look at him. But when he looked toward his father and looked again to the stranger's, the stranger's had disappeared.
When at home, Caleb angry at John. Because stress, John started drinking again. And unconsciously he saw a letter in the Caleb's bag and opened it. Because drunk, John unconsciously circling the numbers are random. Then he noticed something odd. And when he tried to find on the internet he found some oddities. Those numbers will result in the date, month, year, and the death scene and it all happens over the next 50 years. But the remaining three sets of numbers will occur in the near future.
The next day, when John was on his way to pick up Caleb, he was stuck in traffic jam on the highway because there was an accident. When he realized his position was in one of the numbers, he tried to get out of the car and called her sister to pick up Caleb. He headed the accident, the police told him to go back to the car. And when he would walk back to his car, there is a passing plane and its wings split the toll road and it takes a lot of casualties as the numbers listed on the letter Lucida.
That night, Caleb speaks with mysterious Strangers (DG Maloney, Joel Bow, Maximillian Paul, and Karen Hadfield) in his room. They give him a small smooth stone, showing him VISIONS of the world on fire.
John tried to break up two sets of numbers and then it occurred in downtown in one of the existing subway. At first he thought it was because he thought someone was carrying a bomb, was being brought pirated tapes. And it turns out that the accident occurred when a railroad line that changed, causing a collision between the train with another train.
Then he tried to find Lucida, But Lucida has died. John found Lucida's child, Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and her daughter Abby Wayland (Lara Robinson). At first they were talking familiarly as someone who has long been known. But when John told her everything, Diana straight away and leave John.
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. Then they 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", 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 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. Abby say That the "whisper people" want her and Caleb to go with them. Then John realized that the cause of all that will happen is the sun. 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. Jonathan chases after them, and tries to persuade her against relying on the caves. He warns her That will penetrate the solar flare miles under ground.
But Diana was desperate to bring Caleb and Abby go, when John was looking for the right place where they should go. And on the way Diana lay in his car while refueling and was brought Caleb and Abby at the people who turned out to always follow where Caleb and Abby go. While I was chasing them, the car driven by Diana hit by a truck and dies.
John tried to go somewhere that was ever written when Lucida Lucida had disappeared after the school's time capsule. While on his way to find where Diana, Caleb and Abby, she discovered that Diana had died after an accident and finding the small stone in Diana's hand. John goes back to Lucinda's mobile home, and finding Caleb, Abby and the aliens waiting in a dry river bed covered with the stones. In there, 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 the surface of the Earth, destroying all life on the planet.
Finally, Caleb and Abby are Deposited by the aliens on an Earthlike planet. They are seen joyfully with many other children running through a field towards a beautiful mountain giant white tree.
The cast:
- 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
- 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
my opinion: the film was very entertain
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