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Titolo originale: Knowing
Regia: Alex Proyas |
Anno: 2009
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America | Australia |
Generi: Azione Mistero Fantascienza Thriller
Tag: cataclysm | melancholy | code | alien | time capsule | end of the world | astrophysicist | grieving widower | lexington massachusetts | westford massachusetts | prediction | researcher | numbers | news | reflective | suspenseful | awestruck | ominous | tragic | pattern recognition |
Cast: Nicolas Cage | Rose Byrne | Chandler Canterbury | Ben Mendelsohn | Nadia Townsend | Terry Camilleri | Lara Robinson | Adrienne Pickering | Danielle Carter | Alethea McGrath | David Lennie | D.G. Maloney | Alan Hopgood | Joshua Long | Tamara Donnellan | Travis Waite | Liam Hemsworth | Harli Ames | Alyssa McClelland | Gareth Yuen | Lesley Anne Mitchell | Raymond Thomas | Angie Diaz | Kate Mylius | Sarah Lawrence |

Un professore rinviene nel cortile della scuola elementare del figlio una capsula temporale sepolta nel 1963, contenenti sconvolgenti predizioni su alcuni disastri naturali, tra cui l'imminente fine del mondo. L'uomo si convince che la sua famiglia giochi un ruolo determinante nei catastrofici eventi che si susseguono.

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(at around 38 mins) When they first spot Flight 74, John and the state police officer are both looki [...] D
(at around 1h 40 mins) When John parks on the river bed near the mobile home, just prior to the arri [...] D
When John is stopped in traffic, gets out of his truck and approaches the Policeman to ask what is w [...] D
When the teacher is explaining the time capsule to her class in 1959, in one shot the cardboard box [...] D
(at around 39 mins) When the airliner crashes it wipes out the cars behind the first row, and cars a [...] D
When John first sees the pattern on the paper, it is the 0911012996 that catches his eye. This would [...] D
When Diana refers to "Caves off Route 40 past Groton", this isn't possible. Route 40 ends in Groton [...] D
(at around 1h 35 mins) When Diana is in the back of the ambulance, she is wearing a bra as the EMT's [...] D
(at around 5 mins) During the search of the 1959 elementary school for the lost Lucinda, modern fluo [...] D
The degrees are shown to just hundredths. A hundredth of a degree is more than half a mile. John wou [...] D
In the subway crash, the train takes out a large number of pillars. In a real subway station, they w [...] D
(at around 39 mins) Jet engine's blades are rotating in the wrong direction during the plane crash w [...] D
(at around 1 min) At the beginning of the film, when the teacher is calling the children in from rec [...] D
In 1959, some 50-star flags are seen. The 50-star flag was not introduced until July 4, 1960. The sc [...] D
During the plane crash when the camera pans to a group of survivors struggling away from the plane d [...] D
After the whisperers "kidnap" the kids at the gas station, Diana takes someone else's car and after [...] D
(at around 2 mins) In the 1959 classroom scene, there are a number of flags above the chalkboard, wh [...] D
The plane crash is shown to occur within a couple miles of Boston Logan Airport. In the entire seque [...] D
When the camera changes to a higher position while the derailed subway is hitting people. You can se [...] D
When John erases Caleb's homework from the dry-erase board so that he can write down the numbers, he [...] D
When John approaches and leaves the gas station, the fog lights on his truck are off, when he arrive [...] D
When John swings the bat at the tree you can see the bat broke in half briefly as he brings it back [...] D
(at around 8 mins) John shows the rings of Saturn to Caleb through his backyard telescope. Saturn wa [...] D
(at around 54 mins) After John and Diana have walked out of the museum into the car park, on the gro [...] D
(at around 37 mins) When John is on the phone to his friend in the car, there is a Victorian (Austra [...] D
At 1 hour 30 minutes, after John went back to the school looking for the last of the numbers on the [...] D
When John is teaching at MIT in the beginning of the movie, there is a female student in the front r [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) When Diana walks into the convenience store to watch the Emergency Broadcast [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) Towards end of the movie when the cell phones are not working, Caleb calls hi [...] D
(at around 18 mins) When Caleb first removes the numbers from the envelope, we see the end of the se [...] D
(at around 13 mins) In Dr. John Koestler's classroom scene, camera movement shows chalkboard writing [...] D
The solar system diagram showing the flare simulation is vastly out of scale. As shown, the sun in t [...] D
(at around 18 mins) When the fifty-year-old time capsule is opened, the envelopes are handed out to [...] D
The latitudes and longitudes in Lucinda's letter do not specify whether they are North, South, East [...] D
There is no subway station remotely close to the corner of Lafayette and Worth. The closest is the C [...] D
After John finds the last coordinates and discovers Diana has left with the children, the tailgate t [...] D
(at around 55 mins) When John enters the coordinates of the impending NYC disaster in Google Maps he [...] D
(at around 1h 50 mins) The line of solar flare destroying Manhattan is shown from many angles as mov [...] D
(at around 13 mins) In John's lecture on Determinism/Randomness,the word "intergrate!" is written on [...] D
When John browses his Tivo-recorded programs on the night of 10/13/2009, the listed air dates span M [...] D
The main character is supposed to be an astrophysicist. He says that Earth-like planets will only be [...] D
Since the aliens can, and do, take the children themselves, without the parents' help and indeed in [...] D
Midway through the movie, as the sheet of paper with the numbers on it sits on a desk, there is a sm [...] D
Right after the plane crash, as John starts running towards the crash site, two wrecked cars can be [...] D
(at around 52 mins) While getting a drink on the museum roof, the skyline is completely impossible, [...] D
(at around 55 mins) While John is looking up the location of the New York disaster, the paper clearl [...] D
A New York City subway operator is seen wearing an MTA logo on his uniform, of a kind discarded sinc [...] D
At 21:45 into the film John is watching a TiVo recording on T.V., he the goes to pour more alcohol i [...] D
In John's lecture on Determinism/Randomness, what he's actually describing are (anthropic) teleologi [...] D
(at around 58 mins) When John goes down into the subway station in NYC at Worth and Lafayette, there [...] D
MIT ID cards do not look anything like those in the picture. Professor IDs do not say "Academic" on [...] D
The exit number off Route 2 eastbound at the intersection with I95 in the plane crash scene is incor [...] D
When Diana is being worked on in the ambulance by paramedics, it is obvious that it is a "right hand [...] D
When John is describing the superflare, the simulation on his computer screen gives the planets' dis [...] D
After the spaceship departs with the children on board, and the rocks fall back to Earth, the lighti [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) When the emergency alert comes on at the convenience store, three short warbl [...] D
In the opening classroom sequence, the clock on the wall behind the teacher remains at 1:10 througho [...] D
(at around 40 mins) The crashed plane is identified as a "commuter jet flying out out of Pittsburgh" [...] D
When Lucinda dies in 1988, a newspaper reveals her to be 33 years old. This means she would've been [...] D
Three future disasters are predicted. The protagonist could show these to the authorities, who would [...] D
The fifth flag in the 1959 classroom is not Russian flag, but flag of the People's Republic of Bulga [...] D
Right after the subway crash sequence, the camera moves up into a wide shot. You can clearly see tha [...] D
When the police and teachers go searching for Lucinda in the school at night, they all use flashlig [...] D
(at around 9 mins) On 10/12/2009, the night before the school's 50th anniversary, John announces tha [...] D
When John looks up the information about the 9/11 attack, the page says 'In memory of the 2996 lives [...] D
Lucinda's first set of numbers predict a disaster on February 12, 1959. The time capsule is buried o [...] D
The NYC subway station (filmed in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) has an interior, cars, and a paint [...] D
Westford is a small town, and has no intersections anywhere near as large as the one depicted. Also, [...] D
When John drives into New York City, he's shown driving on the Brooklyn Bridge, which would not be o [...] D
(at around 38 mins) The windscreen wipers on most of the vehicles caught in the traffic jam on the f [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) The gas station has gas pumps unlike anything found in the USA, and a sign th [...] D
(at around 1h 11 mins) In Lucinda's house in the woods are newspaper articles attached to the walls, [...] D
When Diana dies, the paramedics make two attempts to resuscitate her using the defibrillator, then c [...] D
On the eve of the solar flare (18th October 2009) a waning moon is briefly seen in a scene next to t [...] D
(at around 49 mins) Boston does not have a Museum with an interior like the one they are visiting wh [...] D
When John first looks up the 9/11 incident, he is shown just typing three characters (presumably 911 [...] D
When John and Diana are sitting and talking at their table at the rooftop café, traffic in the ba [...] D
(at around 8 mins) When John and Caleb are looking at Saturn, they appear to be looking through a "f [...] D
(at around 27 mins) John shows Phil a printout of an article reporting the 10/27/2008 hotel fire in [...] D
GPS is broadcast on the L1 frequency (1575.42 MHz), not the same as cell phones. D
(at around 41 mins) The "Lexington Air Crash" is described by the reporter as "...two miles from the [...] D
(at around 5 mins) When the time capsule is being buried at the beginning of the film there are thre [...] D
The time capsule was apparently sealed only with a screw-on lid and was just placed in a hole in the [...] D
(at around 1h 30 mins) When Diana is driving away from John (and toward the caves) she tries to call [...] D
In the subway, John is seen running at the woman with the baby, behind him you see 3 people go flyin [...] D
The 1992-1997 Ford Crown Victoria taxi in the beginning of the NYC scene is too old to be a taxi as [...] D
(at around 1h 6 mins) When John is driving Diana and the kids in his car and explaining how his wife [...] D