Knowing

Sometimes you read a book or a movie which complete shakes up your belief system and then starts’ the struggle to come to terms with the fact that something which you have believed all your adult life might not be sound, after all. Given a chance, I don’t lose an opportunity to ridicule all those creationists and the same goes the case with those who believe in intelligent design. I being a firm believer in the theory of evolution couldn’t imagine or dream of questioning this theory, ever. Now for the past 24 hours I’ve been wondering whether there is actually some invisible force out there guiding the mankind or which can predict what might happen in the future?

Actually do I believe if things happening all around us are some random sequences of events or if there is a method to this madness? Till yesterday for me, they were all random events with no relation to each other and only by coincidence did some of them fit together but now wonder if they are all a part of big plan, whose plan? I don’t know.

Saw knowing yesterday and this movie in normal times shouldn’t have made any sense to me but the circumstances and the way the movies’ plot is built up makes it very believable that an Omnipotent force or entity does really exist. If this is the case then from here where do we go, will the world end? Basically every religion talks about the end of days, then what? What was the whole purpose of who ever that invisible force is, in creating this world when in the end it’s getting destroyed? Or like in the movie will a select few get to start all over again in some other distant earth like celestial body. But that doesn’t answer the question of why go through the pain of creating something which you know that come the time, will be annihilated.

Coming to the movie, the premise is pretty formulaic once the initial 20-30 minutes is done. Who else but Nicolas cage can make a pretty watchable movie into a boring one with his come-what-may-look like a douche or a guy on the verge of puking his guts out. Seriously, why do they even bother having this guy in movies? Haven’t they learnt their lesson from all those great movies ending up mediocre with his association. There is nothing much to write about other aspects of the movie other than it being your usual end of days movie, where everyone actually dies in the end.

I don’t think there is some invisible force out there playing the puppet master with us but it doesn’t hurt to think that there is one. At least that way you will be in peace with yourself knowing that there is some one out there who knows what he is doing but then if in the end, everything is destroyed what was the whole purpose of letting this go on for such a long time? If you can predict when the world ends, then why wait for it till the last moment and why pick only a handful of people to start it all over again? Why not just transfer instead of starting all over? At least with transferring you have the liberty of watching life go on from where you left, instead of watching the whole thing play out all over again.

You can catch the movie once the DVD is out but don’t expect much from it. It’s one of those movies which makes you think but at the end of the day leaves you with more questions than answers. Well that’s life I guess everyday you end with the questions of yesterday unanswered but still keep going in the hope of finding the answers tomorrow.