What would you do if you were allowed to know the future? And if the future was the armageddon? And if that future, despite your efforts, it was immutable and unchangeable? Nicolas Cage is John Koestler, a leading astrophysicist at MIT
His life was greatly affected by the untimely death of his wife, much to bring to renounce all forms of belief that is not purely scientific.
When, after a school project, his son Caleb is holding a message written 50 years earlier by a child of her own school, John discovers that the message could be much more than what it seems.
fact, he realizes that behind the long series of numbers on that sheet of paper, hiding the chilling prophecy: when read in proper order, those numbers anticipate countless disasters, the coordinates where they will take place and the precise number of victims. All
"warnings" appears to be accurate, regularly occurred over the past 50 years, and to supplement that message there are three prophecies about disasters not yet taken place ...
Knowing is a film that runs somewhere between science fiction and mysticism.
The first part of the film has the feel of horror and then assume, with the development of events, the appearance of a science fiction story properly conceived and structured, with an unexpected end ...
The photography, especially in some sequences, turns out to be a valuable added value thanks to the choice of tones and dark colors tend to, that can easily fit the narrative and the viewer that trigger the omen of the apocalypse.
The limit of the film probably lies in the speed with which events follow each end, the decisive and more important for an assessment of the whole story.
For fans of the genre, Knowing film is still a good idea.
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