![]() It works as science fiction, which often changes one coordinate in an otherwise logical world just to see what might happen. So it is - but not while the movie is playing. This is not a movie about psychic mumble-jumble Koestler is a hard-headed scientist, too, or always thought he was, until that page of numbers came into his hands.īy "scientifically sound," I don't mean anyone at MIT is going to find the plot other than preposterous. Mendelsohn's passionate arguments, which are not technical yet are scientifically sound, raise the stakes. His obsession is scoffed at by his MIT colleague, a cosmologist named Phil Beckman ( Ben Mendelsohn), who warns Koestler against the heresy of numerology - the finding of imaginary patterns in numbers. Let me say that Koestler discovers almost by accident a pattern in the numbers, and they shake his scientific mind to its core. I'll write another article that will contain spoilers. What do these numbers mean? You already know from the TV ads, but I don't believe I should tell you. In a prologue, we've seen the girl with haunted eyes, Lucinda ( Lara Robinson), who so intensely pressed the numbers into the paper. But the sheet Caleb gets isn't a drawing it's covered with rows of numbers. A time capsule is opened at Caleb's school, containing the drawings of students in 1959 predicting the sights of 2009. He votes for deterministic as he tells his class, he believes "s**t happens." His wife has died, and he's raising his young son, Caleb ( Chandler Canterbury). ![]() Nicolas Cage, in another wound-up, edgy performance, plays John Koestler, a professor of astrophysics at MIT. ![]()
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