KNOWING
Knowing is originally written by a novelist Rhyne Pearson and the script is composed by Juliet Snowden, then rewrited by Hazeldine and Proyas. The movie is set in 1959 in Massachussets School. By that time, the students were asked to draw and predict what will happen in the future, then their drawings and their predictions will be kept in the form of time capsule. It will be opened 50 years later. One of the students named Lucinda (Embry Clara Robinson) makes the correct prediction is owned by Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterburry).
This cute student gives it to her father, John Koestler (Cage)- an astrology professor. John found a puzzle of number that shows an important event namely disaster destroying earth in 50 years a head. In fact, he realized that there will be three tragic events. An air crush is also listed in that prediction. At the same time, John tries to contact Lucinda’s daughter, Diana (Byrne) who is destined to die in that air crush. In the klimax, he puzzles out that number which directs to the mass dead of human being because of the incident in October 2009.
Proyas’s team succeed to make a nice visualization that is interesting to watch. By his experience, proyas is able to develop sequence of thrilling scenes as well as chaos situation which are very important in this sort of movie. He is the first director using digital camera. For information, Proyas is using Red one digital camera. Knowing can be awarded as the best sci- fi in 2009. Without many promotions, the movie which has duration about 2 hours gets great result. Even though there is a simple comment, but Knowing will not disappoint the viewers.
The comments which emerge are caused by the expectation of the viewers who want to watch much more action and disaster scenes. In fact this movie cannot satisfy them. It is believed that Proyas missed a golden chance to make Knowing more interesting by a better dialogue either a commercial climax. Meanwhile, the characters’ acting are not maximum. Nic Cage does not perform well, but if the major character is not him, this movie will be worse. So, don’t expect it will be like Armageddon or ID4, in order it can be watched , in order it can be watched more interesting while enjoying the acting of Nicolas Cage which are better than his performance in Bangkok Dangerous or in Wicker Man however.
