The Bible states the expansion is composed of three different zones called "heavens.". When I then multiply that, per the equation, by the 1 in a billion probability of . Moreover, Diana and Abby are female counterparts to John and Caleb. The story was told from the point of view of a priest or pastor (I believe he was a Lutheran pastor, but I could be mis-remembering) who didn't buy the theory that it was angels who were fighting humanity; they were just aliens, and God still loved humanity. During the search, Caleb and Abby, who were left asleep in the car, have an encounter with the beings who are the source of the whispers. The children are then taken away from the parents by the aliens to protect them. The visitors have been interacting . Revelation 9:1-12 describes a locust type creature which stings with its tail and has a poison . Saying "UFOs are angels" is like saying "UFOs are flying ghosts" or "UFO's are magic flying leprechauns". The film then introduces Diana and Abby to complete the Koestler the family unit. Some have claimed that the nephilim, or the "sons of God", both mentioned in Genesis 6:2-4, were aliens. The picture Lucinda used to stare at for hours, the one Abby colors the sun in, is a drawing representing the visions of the Prophet Ezekiel from the Hebrew Bible, specifically God's chariot. All the children create visual works except for Lucinda Embry. The comfort of faith comes at the cost of submission to a sometimes unknowable wisdom. Koestler and Caleb are struggling with bereavement. Niall Gray is a features writer for Screen Rant covering just about every film- or TV-related topic he's loosed upon. If one really watches and pays the least bit of attention, one "should" clearly see the director's intent. Knowing grossed over $180 million on a budget less than a third of that ($50 million), so it was hardly a flop, but the obviously-tacked-on ending meant that this particular Nicolas Cage movie was cheated out of a lasting legacy. Some people even think that guardian angels are . (This is a common device in the genre, by the way: the lone wolf by circumstance.). (Creepy Alien In Demon's Body Caught On Tape) (1) Demons have always treated mankind with cruelty and that is exactly what some of the alleged aliens do after they abduct humans. . The 2009 sci-fi thriller ends with an unforgettable twist, but it leaves a few questions unanswered. Aliens, or intelligent and communicative non-human life forms, are a well-documented entities. Nobody in the movie does." At a gas station, the whispering beings steal Diana's car with Caleb and Abby inside. It may help them process their grief and anxieties better but it may also seal their fate and tell them the day they will die. The Visitors had to be what He named for us as the Angels. Knowing wasn't a film that required a happy ending, and it suffered from the studio's efforts to shoehorn one in. The beings, acting as extraterrestrial angels, are leading children to safety on interstellar arks. Edit, Not necessarily. [42], Steve Biodrowski of Cinefantastique refers to the film's approach as disappointingly "pseudo-scientific". He walked with God for 300 years after the birth of Methuselah, given that honor above all other humans. Before Lucinda finished the page, it was put in a time capsule filled with drawings of children's interpretations of the future in 50 years as a project funded by William Dawes Elementary School. [9], The film is set primarily in the town of Lexington with some scenes set in the nearby cities of Cambridge and Boston. While Caleb tries to bring his mum back through videos and talking about her, Koestler shuts down. April 9, 2012. Loving and affectionate, because God is Love. The twist sees John is doomed to die on Earth, while Caleb is taken along with his friend, Abby (Lara Robinson), to survive among the stars with the apparently well-intentioned aliens. Angels are immortal and the Bible suggests that, as such, they have no need to procreate. An ANGEL is "a spiritual being believed to act as an attendant, agent, or messenger of God, conventionally represented in human form with wings and a long robe." [Bing] An ALIEN is a foreigner. In the second chapter of the Bible, we are told that God created the heavens and the earth, and everything in them. Whilst the definitive answer is not providedi.e., the whisper people are never called angels or aliensthe above explanations could be interpreted as the most sensible conclusions. ", "Tribulation 99. He doesnt believe in heaven, after all. Or maybe they sent different kinds of messages to different people. So why is the ending such a headscratcher? Being a man of science and all, its about 3 minutes before Koestler discovers the code relates to disasters. Inevitably, there are innumerable different ways to interpret the aliens, their means of communication, the solar flare, and the new planet, such that no one explanation can be "correct." They will hurt people for 5 months, and their sting will be like the sting of a scorpion. Moreover, it translates complex concepts into an action plot that, ultimately, is heartbreaking, immense, and almost operatically tragic. By Gene W Strasser Jul 29, 2022 3:46 PM EDT. He also visits Lucinda's teacher, who tells him of the scratching on the door left by Lucinda. Unfortunately the predictions were buried in the time capsule and not discovered until just weeks before the world ended, so the aliens were forced to implement plan B. Rich good answer to your extraterrestrial 'inquisition' question! Psychic Stephany Cohen claims to have had repeated, consensual, sexual relations with a group of extraterrestrials that she refers to as "Team Spirit.". [36], On November 25, 2009, Global Findability filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Summit Entertainment and Escape Artists in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming that a geospatial entity object code was used in the film Knowing which infringed Patent .mw-parser-output .citation{word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}US 7107286 Integrated information processing system for geospatial media. By including so much religious allegory, Knowing actually sets up its own ending relatively early on by foreshadowing Nicolas Cage's character death and spiritual redemption. Strangers use large, rather unconventional spacecraft that somewhat resemble several dark wheels, all turning around glowing central orbs, with many spike or petal-like structures floating around the wheels, giving a loose resemblance to a biblically-accurate angel, described as wheels within wheels with many wings. The Sons of God are angels (fallen angels), the daughters of men are human women, they produced children and as you can imagine the hybrid beings were huge.giants! The Strangers then kidnap Caleb and Abby with Diana chasing after them. 6. Men will seek death but won't find it. Sidebar: the alien/angelic code is a cursed chalice. The Strangers' ships were seen leaving at the end, but it remains possible that some Strangers remained on the planet to provide guidance to the growing children, unless Human adults were also evacuated off-screen. Meanwhile, Caleb begins hearing the same whispering voices as Lucinda. User Reviews The ending of the film, with the Strangers taking human children to a distant planet, is often regarded for drawing parallels with the Rapture story in Christianity of how, when the Apocalypse comes, the pure and faithful people would be taken to Heaven as the Earth is destroyed by the demons of Hell while every other human left burns in agony. So it's possible that Lucinda was simply a messenger the aliens hoped that perhaps somebody would figure out what the dates and predictions meant back when Lucinda wrote them. Is there an ancient document that predicts a doomsday date? The most obvious is the film's use of prophecy, which is bolstered by the connection between John Koestler, who tries to warn the planet of the coming apocalypse, and John the Apostle, the author of the Book of Revelation, the final book of the Christian Bible that details the end of the world. Of course, Knowing isnt the first to sacrifice its lead actor, either as a plot twist or as per the genres reliance on saviours. . When Koestler cracks the last part of the puzzle, the family, which now includes Diana and Abby, race to reach safety. They are Fallen Angels therefore and perhaps work for Satan since they work with other Aliens that are also Fallen Angels turned into Demons. At least, that's what they believe happened to them. The project was picked up by the production company Escape Artists, and the script was rewritten by Stiles White and Juliet Snowden. In many ways we see the same ambiguities concerning KNOWING; are the creatures aliens or are they angels (or even a combination of both if one thinks our belief system was alien influenced)? They possess no discernable facial features, with their glow appearing to fade out by their lower legs, their feet rendered almost invisible. Edit, Presumably, they were a separate code of events for the new world. That repetition is as much as double cross as genre ambiguity and a clue that we should expect exactly the opposite. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge . I would think these all knowing aliens would pick good breeding material seeing as they have mastered interstellar . From the 1936 earthquake musical San Francisco to 1998's Armageddon, 2004's Day After Tomorrow, and 2021's Don't Look Up, disaster and apocalypse movies both do well at the box office and deliver spectacles that last long in viewers' memories. The point the ending of this movie is trying to express is that the Angels in the Bible were merely altruistic aliens. Niall can be found on Twitter @lordofthegray. The connection is clearly drawn for us with the picture of Ezekiel's Wheel in Lucinda's abandoned house. At night, Stranger ships appear to be black in color, but in daylight, they appear either white or light blue. 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