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Knowing is a film by Alex Proyas (“Dark City,” “The Crow,” “I, Robot”) and stars Nicholas Cage. I saw “Knowing” today, and my little brain has been loudly, intelligently, chillingly, fearsomely, alarminlgy blown. I’ve wracked my imagination to try to think what sort of story would scratch the itch of this time, these days. As I watched this film, I realized with great satisfaction that Alex Proyas has accomplished what I have been trying to discover. This is a great film for our time, and while it is not perfect, it is very powerful. The last time I was moved in a movie theater was last summer for Chris Nolan’s “The Dark Knight.” This feels like a more important film. It deals with titanic themes in a thoughtful way, and tapped into the growing dread of a future that may be spinning out of our control, if indeed we had any control over our lives to begin with..
This is the sort of film that the less you know about it going in, the better, so I’ll write this review in very general terms. Those who have seen the film will know what I’m referring to, but those who haven’t will only get a taste of the overall production.
“Knowing” is not an easy movie to unpack, so I’ll divide this review up into sections. There are a few interesting things going on here: