Knowing - 2009

It’s an interesting movie the first time you watch it. I already watched it twice, and the second time it wasn’t as enjoyable as the first, now that there was no mystery anymore. 
It stars Nicolas Cage as John, a widower with a son, Caleb. Fifty years ago, at Caleb’s school, the students hid letters in a time capsule that is now opened. Caleb gets the only letter without a drawing, the letter of Lucinda, a little girl that was believed to be insane because she heard voices and instead of drawing something like the others she scribbled lots and lots of numbers. John finds out that those numbers are the exact dates of accidents throughout the world, complete with number of deaths and coordinates. He manages to meet Lucinda’s daughter Diana and her own daughter Abby, and together they find out the meaning of the “EE” written at the bottom of the sheet of paper. They mean “everyone else”, meaning that in a few days there will be a solar flare that will kill everyone on Earth, and there’s nothing anybody can do. 
Meanwhile, throughout the movie there are strange people, aliens, giving black stones to chosen children to communicate with them. John and Diana think that they are dangerous and try to escape, until the aliens kidnap the two children and Diana dies in a car accident while chasing them. John is sure to know where they are headed, sure that he found the location hidden in Lucinda’s house, and drives there. He’s right, he finds the aliens with Caleb and Abby un-harmed, and he understands that the aliens plan to take them away. Finally realizing that  keeping Caleb here would only mean his sure death, he lets the children go. He can’t go with them, because only the chosen children will be accepted by the aliens. The last scenes shows us many alien ships departing from Earth, meaning that more children were chosen, and transported to a new planet where they will have a chance of growing up and create a new Earth. It is not explained how the children will manage to survive alone, or if every couple of children brought with them a couple of animals (Caleb and Abby had a rabbit each when they boarded the ship). We only see the children on a green field running towards a big beautiful tree.  

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