K N O W I N G
The Story:
Lexington, Massachusetts in 1959, where a competition is held among the students of a new elementary school to celebrate its opening. The winning plan, from student Lucinda Embry, a seemingly mental disorder/mentally disturbed girl, is to bury a time capsule containing the students' drawings of the future to be opened 50 years later in 2009. She is prevented from finishing her image, which is actually a series of seemingly random numbers, and goes missing during the ceremony. Her teacher later finds her in a gym closet, frantically scratching the remaining numbers into the door.
In 2009, Now, 50 years later, John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) an astronomer and a professor at MIT is at his son, Caleb's school to witness the opening of the time capsule and the pictures are handed down to the new generation of students. Caleb (Chandler Canterbury) receives Lucinda's envelope containing the system of numbers. Initially dismissing them as random numbers, John notices a single random number sequence, 911012996, which contains the date of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacksWorld Trade Center attacks as well as the death toll of the attack. Further research leads John to realise the numbers are a list contain the dates and death tolls of every major disaster, natural and man made, that has happened over the past 50 years, with three that have not occurred yet.
When a commercial plane crash kills 81, the legitimacy of the list of numbers is confirmed and leading John to believe that Lucinda had an ability to prognosticate since childhood until she died. After Caleb receives a vision of future global catastrophe from a silent man, John tries to contact the late Lucinda's daughter, Diana (Rose Byrne), to gain more information, but is rebuffed. But when John also predicts the second event, a subway train crash, Diana and her daughter, Abby (Lara Robinson), visit John and Caleb, and Diana reveals that her mother foretold of the date of her death would be on October 19th, which is also within the list.
John realizes that the last disaster on the code is the end of the world when one of the Sun's solar flares will scorch the Earth. Meanwhile, John and his son Caleb along with Abby and Diana must save as many people as they can from the Sun's solar flares while trying to find out about the strange "whisper people".
Starring:
Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Nadia Townsend, Ben Mendelsohn, Alan Hopgood, D.G. Maloney
Directed By:
Alex Proyas
Release:
2009
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