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Moxie · 06-01-2009, 08:38 PM

My take on the movie... Nicolas Cage, as a professor/teacher asked his class members whether they thought that life was deterministic or a random event? His understanding was that it is random. He was also estranged from his father who is a preacher.

The movie portrays the "kill shot", a mass solar ejection from the sun (one of the catastrophic events that may happen in our near future).

He deciphers the puzzling map of numbers as dates, all of which happened, except for this ONE.... and he wonders "why has this happened to me?... the one to chance upon this puzzle & figure it out if there's nothing he can do about it".... then he comes to learn that the children, his child especially is given an "inner knowing" and NIcholas is the one that makes sure the kid arrives on time to go w/the space brothers.

He reunites w/his father... realizes that Bingo... life is deterministic!

06-01-2009, 08:38 PM	#21
Moxie Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Beaver Lake, AR Posts: 402	Re: "The Knowing", movie My take on the movie... Nicolas Cage, as a professor/teacher asked his class members whether they thought that life was deterministic or a random event? His understanding was that it is random. He was also estranged from his father who is a preacher. The movie portrays the "kill shot", a mass solar ejection from the sun (one of the catastrophic events that may happen in our near future). He deciphers the puzzling map of numbers as dates, all of which happened, except for this ONE.... and he wonders "why has this happened to me?... the one to chance upon this puzzle & figure it out if there's nothing he can do about it".... then he comes to learn that the children, his child especially is given an "inner knowing" and NIcholas is the one that makes sure the kid arrives on time to go w/the space brothers. He reunites w/his father... realizes that Bingo... life is deterministic!