Knowing, a Whisper of The end of the Day

How do you feel when you can see things that people can not see, when you hear what people can not hear, when you feel what people can not feel? You feel something is gonna happen, but you don’t know what it is. Do you have a sixth sense or you are just hallucinating?

Lucinda Embry, an elementary school girl in Massachusetts 1959 was blind of future. She is seemingly mental disorder/mentally disturbed, But in fact, she is the key of the global scale destruction prediction.

Lucinda was known as a mysterious student with distressed face, gloomy and talks rarely. One day, her school held a ceremony where the students had to bury a time capsule containing the students' drawings of the future to be opened 50 years later in 2009. But the strange thing was that Lucinda was not drawing pictures, but random numbers. She wrote the numbers so fast so that the teacher, Ms Taylor, seized the paper. In fact, Lucinda was not a number maniac, but she just wrote down what she heard from a whisper to her ear.

When the time capsule was buried, Lucinda disappeared. She was gone. Everybody searched for her and finally Ms Taylor found her in a gym closet, frantically scratching the remaining numbers into the door with fully blood fingers.

In year 2009, the time capsule is opened and the next generation students struggle to open each envelope. Caleb, the son of MIT professor and astrophysics John Koestler, receives Lucinda's envelope. Initially dismissing them as random numbers, by googling John notices a single random number sequence, 911012996, which contains the date of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks the World Trade Center and other several major disaster, natural and man made, that has happened over the past 50 years, with three that have not occurred yet, as his wife died in one of the past events, John starts to believe his son was chosen to get Lucinda's prophecies.

Since then, the life of the father and son has changed. There are three disasters left in 2009. How can John overcome this? Meanwhile, Caleb who was born in deaf has to hear whispers as Lucinda did. John is afraid if Caleb will be the number next victim. But, he can not get away from the destiny. After struggling to trace Lucinda Embry, John finally gets the answer.

Knowing is a novel of Ryne Douglas Pearson which turns into a film under arrangement of Alex Proyas. This thriller film is first released in March 20, 2009. The core of this film is not too far away from The Eye film. The film successfully operates on a base level and in deeper territory. It creates enough stress to work as a thriller, with the audience kept as in the dark as Koestler by the unexplained phenomena being shown. The screenplay, credited to Ryne Pearson, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, reveals its surprises deliberately which allows the prevalent sense of anxiety to build while the protagonist races to prevent an unpredictable disaster. Cage keeps things grounded on a human level even as the film veers towards metaphysical territory. He plays Koestler as a smart man, a portrait of focused energy, but not a superhero. The desperation in his quest is compounded by the repartee Cage builds with Canterbury; there’s real emotional depth to the father-son relationship built on the pain of feeling alone in the world.



Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller. Director: Alex Proyas. Writer: Ryne Douglas Pearson (screenplay) and Juliet Snowden (screenplay). Starring: Nicholas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Ben Mendelsohn