Knowing

The other night Amanda and I watched an interesting movie called the Knowing. It centers on a single dad who believes there is no meaning to the universe and that every event is a random accident. His son receives a letter from a time capsule sealed at his school fifty years earlier. The letter was a list of numbers written by a disturbed young girl. The father deciphers the numbers as predictions for every major disaster or tragedy during that fifty years with three yet to occur. There is a lot else that takes place but in this movie we see the transformation of the father, whose own father was a pastor, coming to terms with the idea that there may be meaning to the universe. There is a lot of religious and biblical imagery in this movie (especially Adam and Eve, and Noah). Some of it, especially at the end, is a little too much like the old Chariots of the Gods blending of science fiction and religion. But overall it is an interesting, exciting and thought provoking movie. I highly recommend it.