2009 · action · mystery · sci-fi
Knowing
Directed by Alex Proyas2h 1m2009
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Our read: Knowing (2009) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal action · mystery · sci-fi entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / mystery, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
Watching Knowing tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Knowing feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want apocalyptic puzzle dread with Cage unraveling coded disasters.”
Skip it tonight — Existential doom and a bleak final act will leave you hollow tonight.
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