Knowing

It's absolutely delightful to have some fun in the middle of the week. It surely makes you feel alive, that there is life after work. Last evening I went to the cinema. I got there in the last minute and I saw Knowing.

Nicholas Cage portrays John Koestler, an astrophysics professor at the Minnesota University that raises his boy all alone after the death of his wife a year prior in an awful fire.

The story becomes more interesting once a time capsule is opened after 50 years and Caleb, John's son, receives an envelope that contains a page filled with numbers, originally owned by Lucinda Embry, a strange girl that used to learn at the same school 50 years ago. John soon discovers that the numbers are not just some random ones, but they represent the exact data of the most catastrophic events in human history. There are 3 more data on this doomsday planner culminating with October 19Th, thought to be the extinction day for every Earth being.

What will happen next and who are the whisper people you will find out watching the movie. And trust me, if I hadn't established myself a scale for movies from 1 to 10, I would have give it a 20. Among the final scenes that I liked very much is the one that surprises the anarchy that reigns the world minutes before its end. "Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, II. Allegretto" by Ludwig van Beethoven is heard on the background and makes everything so .... strange and unbelievable. But one day that might happen, because our planet summits the same stellar laws as every planet and star in this universe.