Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The movie ‘Knowing’ *includes spoilers*


“Do you know wolves are born deaf?”

“Yet as they grow older, they can even hear another wolf’s howl a mile away.”

I personally felt these lines were cool, but they were just part of the banter exchanged by Caleb and Abbey, the chosen ones.
What was really interesting was that Doomsday did occur. Global warming did not matter. Pollution did not matter. What mattered was that the scientists did a miscalculation of the extent of a solar flare. What seemed to be just a solar flare which would affect communications turned out to be the end of the world when the solar flare actually burned up the ozone layer and burned down Earth itself.

What was most interesting were the concepts or theories brought up.

1. Do all things happen for a purpose or are they just random coincidences? (God has a plan for all versus non-believers).

2. Do we have living things outside Earth? (We cannot be 100% sure. In this era’s interpretations of the bible, ‘No’ despite the billions of galaxies and stars out there)

3. Are you sure Earth exists on purpose at this particular distance from this particular Sun for us to exist? Or do we just happen to be here without any purpose?

4. It was well-recorded in the past, people record history using metaphors. Could God be definitive or connotative?

5. We were cast out by ‘God’ from the Garden of Eden. Is the Garden somewhere on Earth but in another plane of dimension OR is the Garden on another planet? (as shown by the tree of life in another planet in the Knowing at the end)

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