Knowing

Yesterday, I watched Monster Versus Aliens it was the number 1 movie in America this week and since that Watchmen was still showing at the cinemas. So, I returned only to find out that Watchmen was no longer showing it was the last day, yesterday. I have to watch out for its DVD release soon.

So instead I watched "The Knowing" starring Nicolas Cage, since it had some good reviews. And I really like the premise that it had a paranormal storyline which more than often amazes me. Like other movies of the same sci-fi/horror/mystery genre like that of the X-Files, the Village, the Happening and other movies of M. Night Shymalan.

John Koestler,(the character Nicolas Cage is playing) a professor recently lost his wife in a terrible accident. Together with his son Caleb suddenly unravel a mystery of global proportions. The story starts in 1959 where in a mysterious girl writes a cryptic message as part of their school dedication ceremony wherein they will put their drawings of what to expect 50 years later in a time capsule.

Fast forward to the present, Caleb as part of the new generation class gets his hands on the cryptic letter that he takes home.And John gets to decode the message and the terrifying apocalyptic message it reveals in sequence, disaster after one another struck.

It was scary and spine tingling when it suddenly hits you. You never know what purpose you have in this world. It sometimes comes across my mind when I'm in deep thought. Thinking of what is currently happening in today's world, all this calamities, disasters, and all.

Did we just had a glimpse of what could happen when our time is already due?
I'm not saying the world is about to end. But the scene when John showed the sudden spike of the Sun's flames on all three planets Mercury, Venus and Earth. Just one flicker, one sudden rise of its flames and all life on Earth will cease to exist.

And the last scenes where in the rise of temperature, causing the oceans to rise with gigantic waves and forest fires and the whole world is in chaos. No one will survive.

Was it destiny that John and Caleb had to get hold of the letter? And meet the whisper people? Their is always a scientific approach and the way we look at things that sometimes science alone cannot explain.

Given the chance of knowing how my life will end, I wish not to know. But let fate continue its course.