M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe.
In the film, there's an oil rig on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. A little more than a year later on April 20, 2010, this became a reality with the BP oil spill in the gulf.
The school in the film is William Dawes Elementary. William Dawes was one of the riders who, like Paul Revere, warned the minutemen that British troops were coming, just as a child at his namesake school was trying to warn people what was coming.
The perceptual phenomenon where people look for patterns in randomness (number strings, faces in trees, shapes in clouds etc.) is called Apophenia.
Knowing 2009
20 Mar 2009 ● English ● 2 hrs 1 min
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