Knowing

Last week I watched the movie Knowing, starred by Nicholas Cage and Rose Byrne. It was thrilling from the beginning, keeping us glued to the seats. My right arm's blood circulation was cut by Kunti's grip. I could feel Menik tensed on my left side every time there's a scary scene. I didn't know whether it was a horror flick or a thriller or what. The idea was quite good. A whole page of mysterious numbers which when at last were encoded were of dates and coordinates of disasters. A girl hears whispering (of aliens) and she wrote those codes on a piece of paper which then was kept on a capsule, to be opened 50 years later. She was like a schizophrenic, sometimes catatonic, a little scary sometimes, scratching her nails on  the surface of a door to carve those numbers. 

Fifty years later, the capsule was opened, and there's this kid who got her paper fully written with numbers. By coincidence or not, he also could hear whisperings. When they got too loud, he just took off his hearing-aid. His dad was a lecturer in MIT. He had lost his wife in a fire, and took solace in alcohol. One thing led to another, he then tried to decode those numbers, and found out that those were dates of disasters that had happened in the last 50 years plus the numbers of victims died in those disasters. And when he realized that one of those dates were of his wife's death, he got angry, thinking if someone had decoded those numbers way earlier, those disasters would have been able to be prevented. *Jaaah, panjang amat kalimatnya ye?*

So it went that he tried to save the word. Or solve the mystery around it and what happened to his son. Anyways, couldn't save anyone from the end of the world. And his son and the granddaughter of said girl who wrote those numbers were the only ones who will be safe. They were taken by space ship and taken to another planet. The last scene were of them in a beautiful field, only the two of them, and then zoomed on a tree. And it made us think about that scene of Adam and Eve and the Tree. It's like the beginning of life. Life is a circle, and they were back to the starting point. 

It may be cool at the start, but I just didn't like the ending much. Too weird for me. Plain weird. The combination of aliens, whispering, action, then recycle of Adam and Eve were just weird. Period. But at least it was still thrilling. Seven points overall. Three points for the ending.