Knowing

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Info: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0448011/
Release Date: 7 April 2009 (Indonesia)
Genre: Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury and Rose Byrne
Quality: BDRip 720p
Encoder: SayFull@Ganool
Source: 720p BluRay -HUBRIS
Subtitle: Indonesia, English

Sinopsis:

Just don't bother to analyze it or let your cynical sense get in your way and this is a darn good sci-fi film. Just when you thought you'd seen the most dazzling apocalyptic special effects of all, here goes Hollywood ratcheting them up again.

There are times, for awhile, that you may find yourself despairing of the film for its fairly routine use of the supernatural. Also familiar, certainly, is Nicolas Cage's somber dedication and the usual obligatory feel-good joining of single parents and their pretty kids.

But the film very efficiently and competently picks up on its quirky hook about a large set of cosmically derived numbers which forecast disasters and goes on to build some solid suspense all the way up to its supercharged ending. For an experience that turns out to be an almost spiritually grandiose concept of how and where we're headed in a uniquely splendiferous, gargantuan final scenario that'll leave you in a shock spellbound state, I will very much recommend this.

As to the basics, the performances are workable, with the boy a bit self-conscious now and then, the in-vogue philosophy (based on ancient precepts) concerning the destiny of the planet flows without being pedantic.

It's 1958 and a group of elementary school students is asked to draw pictures at random, on any subject, to be inserted into a time capsule. The idea is that 50 years later, the capsule will be opened and the new generation can look over the mindsets of the kids of '58. But there is among these students a strangely behaving girl (Lara Robinson) who fills the entire paper with numbers that appear to be pure chance.

Now 2008. Today's students are called upon to check out the capsule's contents. That weird sheet of numbers is picked up by a boy, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), who innocently takes it home. Turns out that his dad, astrophysics professor John Koestler, on careful examination, finds that those numbers are anything but random. Rather, they're a code which, with deadly accuracy, has predicted the dates, death tolls and exact global locations of all major calamities of the past 50 years.

Shockingly, it also tells of three events in the near future, the first being an airliner crash virtually in his back yard. The second is an enormously spectacular subway train crash in a crowded station. The last indicates world scale destruction, this involving John and his son.

Throughout, a running occurrence is that of a gaunt and ghostly figure who keeps appearing to beckon young Caleb.

A trusted cosmologist friend (Ben Mendelsohn), at M.I.T. and the FBI, of course, dismiss his "discovery" out of hand. All he can do is to search out the girl of long ago. But she's dead now and he can only locate her grown-up daughter (Rose Byrne), and granddaughter (Lara Robinson again). He'll be in a monumental race against time.

There is the usual problem with future-prediction themes, of course, that if a person in the present predicts a future event and a future person tries to stop that event, then the present person could never have made that prediction.