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Mar 20, 2009 · Knowing: Directed by Alex Proyas. With Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson. M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
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- Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Alex Proyas
- 2009-03-20
- Why Did The Whisper People Save Caleb & Abby?
- Why Did The Whisper People Give Caleb & Abby Rabbits?
- Knowing's Religious Themes Explained
- The Real Meaning of Knowing's Ending
- Why The Final Shot in Knowing Ruined An Intriguing Ending
- How Director Alex Proyas Explains Knowing and Its Ending
John Koestler's kids are central to why some still want the Knowing ending explained. It seems odd that the alien race chose to save Caleb and Abby and raise two strange human children, but it was so the human race could start again. The aliens' "whispering" is a form of selection, and only the chosen get a ticket off-world (Caleb and Abby are two ...
One of the most bewildering aspects of Knowing's ending is the way that Caleb and Abby are both depicted holding rabbits shortly before leaving with the aliens. This isn't directly addressed by the film, but the rabbits are seen arriving safely on the alien planet with the children in Knowing's final moments. While the rabbit's place in the new wor...
Knowing draws on a lot of biblical inspiration, most notably in its handling of the idea of prophecy and the apocalypse. While it's certainly not the first sci-fi film to tackle biblical symbolism – just look at Dune's messiah/Chosen One prophecy – Knowing actually explores a wide array of religious themes. The most obvious is the film's use of pro...
Maybe to say that Knowing is a film of many layers is to give it too much credit, but there certainly are a lot of themes and inspirations at play, and that's ultimately what makes its ending a little confusing. By including so much religious allegory, Knowingactually sets up its own ending relatively early on by foreshadowing Nicolas Cage's charac...
From the 1936 earthquake musical San Francisco to 1998's Armageddon, 2004's Day After Tomorrow, and 2021's Don't Look Up, disaster and apocalypse movies both do well at the box office and deliver spectacles that last long in viewers' memories. Knowing could have been one of the most highly-regarded disaster movies so far, especially with the unique...
With a lot to unpack, the best person to offer a little insight on the Knowing ending is the movie's director Alex Proyas. Having directedDark City and The Crow, Proyas is used to making genre movies with big ideas and concepts that fans can read a lot into. When it comes to the interpretations of Knowing as a biblical story, Proyas doesn't discour...
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Summaries. M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. In the fall of 1959, students draw pictures of life as they imagine it will be in 50 years, for a time capsule.
Oct 3, 2014 · Left Behind: Directed by Vic Armstrong. With Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray, Cassi Thomson, Nicky Whelan. A small group of survivors is left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.
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- Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
- Vic Armstrong
- 2014-10-03
The film centers on the discovery of a strange paper filled with numbers and the possibility that they somehow predict the details of various disasters culminating in the apocalypse . The film was released on March 20, 2009, in the United States. The DVD and Blu-ray media were released on July 7.
Mar 20, 2009 · Fifty years after it was buried in a time capsule, a schoolgirl's cryptic document falls into the hands of Caleb Koestler, the son of professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage).
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- Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
- PG-13
Dec 22, 2014 · Fifty years later, the time capsule is unearthed for a new generation of students to examine. Young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is one of those students. The mysterious sequence of ...
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