Open Letter to the Writers of the Movie “Knowing”
!!!! Spoiler Alert !!!!
Dear writers of “Knowing”,
I just got back from watching your movie, and I am totally dumbfounded about what just happened.
The movie started off great. Actually, I was really surprised. Nicholas Cage played an Astrophysicist (I think?) professor at MIT, which is awesome. MIT is an incredible school, and the campus looks really cool. The topic Nicholas Cage was talking to his students about was the debate between Determinism and Randomness. Both MIT, and this debate are interesting to me, so needless to say, I was excited.
The majority of the movie was not bad. It was not great, but it was not bad. I did think Nicholas Cage figured out the pattern to the numbers a little too quickly, but after all, if he is playing a professor at MIT, you never know.
My biggest complaint is about the ending of the movie. It made NO sense! Why were there aliens in an icicle shaped space ship? Forget the spaceship, WHY were there aliens? The movie would have been much better if everyone had just died (or Nicholas Cage saved the day).
What I am really confused about is whether or not this movie is supposed to portray a Christian message. There were many Christian references: Nicholas Cage talking about heaven to his kid, the picture of Ezekiel, the Adam and Eve reference at the very end. However, what doesn’t make sense, again, is the aliens. If you were trying to send a Christian message, how do the aliens fit into the story? If anything, it shows that four aliens could be possible for our existence (if for some reason a solar flare was going to kill us all and we were picked up by an icicle shaped space ship and dropped on this planet).
If the point of this movie was supposed to answer the question about Determinism vs. Randomness, in favor of determinism, I think the entire alien part voids whatever message you were trying to get across. It was simply crazy.
I think you took a very interesting an idea, added some Christian symbolism, and then ruined the entire thing by adding aliens. I actually started laughing when I saw the spaceship. I said to myself, “This seriously cannot be happening.”
$22 dollars later (tickets for my girlfriend and I + pop corn + pop), I am disappointed, confused, and most importantly, curious as to why you would add aliens to this film.
Sincerely,
Jon