The parallels between "Knowing" and the Old Testament's Book of Ezekiel are rather blatant via Bible Hub : The book's first chapter speaks of "living creatures" with "the likeness of a man" that come to the prophet enclosed in "a wheel in the middle of a wheel" via Bible Hub — exactly the shape of the aliens' space arks in "Knowing. Then, there are also references to other Biblical passages, which suggest a more pick-'n'-mix approach to Christian mythology: John's separation from his son Caleb calls to mind the Matthew verse "Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left," and the bringing of the kids to the new, Eden-like planet could be interpreted as a Rapture, following the Revelation -like reception of the beings' whispers.
All in all, "Knowing'"s ending can be taken to visualize the overarching Christian belief in the saving of an elected few by a higher power. It can also be taken, however, to mean something else entirely.
This ambiguity between Christian metaphor and radically secular speculation explains the movie's divisive reputation among Christians, detailed on the website ChristianAnswers. Whether you read "Knowing" as a movie about angels mistaken for aliens or aliens mistaken for angels, one thing is for sure: The movie gets, and incorporates, much of the existential appeal of spiritual devotion, as well as many of its tough underlying questions.
Roger Ebert himself argued as much in a passionate defense of the movie, which he wrote in response to the negative reviews: "The ending is spectacular enough that it brings closure, if not explanation," the critic wrote on RogerEbert. Nobody in the movie does. John Koestler is a skeptic going through a religious awakening: He rummages the Lucinda Embry numbers as a believer does a sacred text, equally convinced that they speak to a larger truth, and he doesn't have to understand all of it to believe.
It's no wonder the movie ends with him reconciling with his pastor father Alan Hopgood. It's also no wonder that, earlier on, he engages in what Ebert calls "a cerebral debate at MIT about whether the universe is deterministic or random.
It may help them process their grief and anxieties better — but it may also seal their fate and tell them the day they will die. In , a group of primary school students draw pictures for a time capsule of what they think the world will look like in One of the children, Lucinda Wayland, doesn't draw a picture but completes a long list of numbers. In , the school opens the capsule and distribute the pictures to the students with Caleb Koestler getting the page with all the numbers.
Caleb's father John, a university professor and astrophysicist, is intrigued and in managing to decipher the code, realizes that the numbers represent the date, location and number of people killed in major catastrophes, some natural and others man-made. He also sees that there are 3 disasters that have yet to occur. Lucinda Wayland has died but John contacts her daughter Diana and together they try to warn officials of what is coming.
The last of the three disasters may be unstoppable however. In the year , a frightened and disturbed little girl named Lucinda was in school when her class was drawing up pictures for the school's time capsule, but Lucinda drew up a weird system of numbers and even was scratching at the school janitor's door.
Now, 50 years later, John Koestler an astronomer and a professor at MIT is at his son, Caleb's school to open up the time capsule and was given Lucinda's system of numbers.
When John was looking at the numbers, he quickly realized that it was some type of code that predicted the month, date and year of a specific disaster, and how many people died in that particular disaster.
After witnessing a plane crash at Logan International Airport, and saving people from a freak New York Subway accident, 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, Caleb witnesses strange people who stalk him, and a little girl named Abby and her mother named Diana. Now, 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 people. The Strangers' intentions in the film remain relatively unclear and unexplained, due to how they appear in their true form for a brief amount of time at the end of the film, and the fact they possess no form of verbal communication.
It is implied that they used their telepathic form of speech to warn human children who had the ability to hear their telepathic voice about impending disasters on Earth.
One child named Lucinda Embry in Lexington, Massachusetts had the ability to hear their voice and wrote down a page full of coordinates, dates and death tolls of impending disasters that would occur in the next 50 years.
Before Lucinda finished the page, it was then put in a time capsule filled with drawings of children's interpretations of the future in 50 years as a project funded by William Dawes Elementary School. In an attempt to finish her message, Lucinda scratched the remaining numbers on the door of the school closet with her bare hands the night after the time capsule was buried. After closer examination from his father John Koestler, he discovers the future predicting nature of the paper.
He later discovered that Lucinda died of a medication overdose and predicts a few disasters using the paper such as the crashing of a commercial plane and the derailment of a Manhattan subway train, which he failed to prevent. He and Lucinda's daughter Diana Embry then investigated Lucinda's old mobile home and discovered that the casualty number for the last set of numbers on Lucinda's paper "33" was actually "EE" in reverse which meant "Everyone Else".
Outside the mobile home, John confronts one of the Strangers, in the form of a human man, who disappears instantaneously, and they learn that Diana's daughter Abby Embry can hear the Strangers' form of communication as well.
It was later discovered by Earth's astronomers that a massive solar flare was heading towards the Earth's orbital path and would cause an apocalyptic event, which the news ultimately erupts panic. After investigating the school closet in which Lucinda had her episode, John noticed that what Lucinda wrote was another set of coordinates which led back to her mobile home and suggests that there is some refuge from the impending disaster.
Diana suggests that she take Caleb and Abby to a set of underground caves as shelter and attempts to do so without telling John.
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