Comments on: Knowing – Nicolas Cage

By: Mormon Heretic

Mormon Heretic — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:57:07 +0000

Welcome Debbie. The Biblical reference is what I found so interesting, as well as the relationship between a non-believer son, and a pastor father. I also like a sort of scientific aspect to miraculous events mentioned in the Book of Revelations and Ezekiel. I’m definitely not ready for the Rapture–I’d probably be heading underground…..

By: Debbie

Debbie — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:24:10 +0000

Just watched this tonight.. then did an online search on this movie… which brought me here. Unusual to see biblical reference in our modern day movies isn’t it. I think the best message it had to offer is when NC called his pastor father and told him to get underground as the earth was to be destroyed. Dad tells him: son when it’s my time it’s my time and he isn’t worried (he knows he is going to Heaven) and asks if his son is. Maybe it will get some other people to thinking as well about their future after they die. Rapture Ready anyone?

By: Jen

Jen — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:56:27 +0000

The Left Behind series is about the end of the world. See this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind There are three movies in the series. If you ever do get around to watching them, it would be great to hear your opinion on them.

By: Reuben Collins

Reuben Collins — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:42:23 +0000

I think Nicholas Cage is a tool and I thought the movie was pretty stupid, overall. However, I actually liked the way the ending provided an alternate interpretation of biblical myths. It sort of turned a completely lame sci-fi flick into something that could resonate with my own understanding of symbolism and mythology.

By: MH

MH — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:39:11 +0000

Sorry–I spend too much time blogging.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:20:24 +0000

Have any of you seen the Left Behind series with Kirk Cameron?

By: MH

MH — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:23:49 +0000

I’m reminded of a quote by John Dominic Crossan of the Jesus Seminar. He said one of the big problems with apocalyptic thought is there is always a tremendous number of dead people.

By: FireTag

FireTag — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:41:01 +0000

I interpreted the movie as saying there were NO saved adults — even those with faith — which is NOT what Revelations suggests. (By the way, the point of revelations isn’t about how to achieve physical safety; the “saved” may be precisely the ones who sacrifice themselves for others, not those who escape tribulations.)

By: MH

MH — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:00:45 +0000

Yes, the movie certainly had some disturbing images.

FireTag, you said, “What I found disturbing was the idea that the best God can do with us is throw us out and start from scratch with still innocent children.” I agree, but isn’t that pretty much what the Book of Revelations says? Aren’t the righteous supposed to float into the air, while all the wicked (including their children) are burnt?

Revelations, Isaiah, and Ezekiel have to be my 3 least favorite books. Daniel is pretty weird too.

By: Audra

Audra — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:18:48 +0000

I love the movie. The first trailer for it didn’t interest me, but the second trailer made it look really creepy so I saw it. Such a great movie. It’s suspenseful the whole way through -plane and train crashes were hard to watch the second time around, and the messengers are still creepy- and I really liked the twist at the end and the Tree of Life motif.

I know there are a lot of people who didn’t like it, but it was weird enough, interesting enough, and (oddly) happy enough to firmly seat itself in my top movies. To me, the overall message (whatever religious implications you want to take from it) was that we shouldn’t fear something just because we don’t understand it. The Diana character freaked out and tried to run away from it and looked what happened to her. Nicolas Cage’s character was just looking for the answers- and he found them.

This movie made me jump, made me laugh, made me smile, made me bawl my eyes out–I just loved it.