Three movies; dates and days, December 21 and September 6

Three contemporary movies, "Knowing," "2012" and "San Andreas" mathematically linked to a book published in 1927, WD Gann's "The Tunnel Thru the Air."  Outrageous, but continue down that road established in the essay in the first of this series.

Those three movies will establish key dates and time intervals that one, having read TTTTA closely, will find familiar.

"Knowing."  This movie takes place beginning on exactly the night before October 13, 2009 with the substance of the movie beginning the next day (October 13) with the opening of a time capsule and finding of a 'map of time' that was buried 50 years (a Jubilee period perhaps) previous on October 13, 1959.  The flashback introduction of the movie recounts the buying of the time capsule.  The 50-year subsequent finding of the map begins a sequence of discovery and of three events (four if you include an event that is noted but in which the prime character does not participate, a Gulf oil rig fire) that comprises the substantial duration of the movie.

• 50 years between the burying of the time capsule and map and its opening and map discovery,
• 7 days duration of discovery during which the prime character notes or participates in 4 revelatory events,
• dates of revelatory events in which the character participates; October 15, 17 and 19.

It is notable the movie is a very dark movie with the opening scene (non flashback) being at night when the prime character is viewing Saturn's rings on Saturday night October 12, 2009.  Much of the movie occurs at night.  

Dates are prominent in "Knowing" with the prime character correlating great disasters of the 50-year flashback period; you see in flashes dozens of dates and death tolls.

"2012."  Obviously, this populist movie centers on the Mayan apocalyptic date, December 21, 2012.  The flashback portion of this movie, similar to "Knowing," introduces the theme of the movie and flashes back to the year 2009 (the year "Knowing" takes place).  A principal character of the movie discovers the earth will end some time in the not distant future.  Moving forward to late 2012, the prime character picks up his children for a weekend trip to Yellowstone, spends 1 night at Yellowstone and delivers them home the next morning.  A second night occurs after the reunited family traveled from earthquake stricken Los Angeles to Los Vegas and have boarded a jumbo transport jet bound for Tibet and the "Ark" rescue ships.  At daylight of the third day, we reckon that being December 21, 2012, and onboard the Ark 4, the third day plays out with a drama of its last second preparations.

• 3 years of flashback,
• 3 days and 3 nights,
• a single date of focus symbolized by the year and storyline, "2012," meaning December 21, 2012.

The movie seems equally split between night and day scenes

Where in "Knowing" there were many dates, in "2012" there is a focus on one date.

"San Andreas."  This movie opens with a rescue scene the day before three events occur.  If you're looking for a "flashback," the rescue scene is that one-day flashback.  We don't know the date....there is a prominent lack of dates in this movie.  The next day, an earthquake destroys the Hoover Dam and sequentially, one later in LA and then in SF.  Stretching credulity, the hero of the movie saves his wife's life in LA at mid day and the travel to SF to save the lives of their daughter and two others, all done before sunset.

• 1 day of flashback,
• 1 day of destruction,
• an absence of dates.

The movie takes place entirely in daylight.

There are not any contemporaneous dates in this movie....except one.  I've freeze framed every typed letter, every CNN background shot, every cell phone shot looking for a date.  As an example, the hero receives divorce papers from a law firm and there isn't a date:

Business letters always contain the date sent one line above the inside address and, if in block style, at the left margin.  There isn't a date even if in semi block.  Not too worry, to be timely, a movie might have such artifacts thoughtfully removed...except.  Except there are two non contemporaneous date on the drivers license of the flashback scene; the birth date and license renewal date of an inconsequential character, Natalie, placing the movie in 2015.  

There aren't any contemporaneous date except the exact time and day of the moment the LA earthquake began.  If you looked at an iPhone (and this is California so it is an iPhone) immediately before you receive a call, you'll see the time, day of the week and day of the month (but not year) on it.  Emma, the primary heroine, receives a call from her soon to be ex Ray, an for just a split second after it rings, you see this:

If you try to isolate this screen shot from the movie then you need to freeze at the lunch conversation preceding the LA earthquake and step through until you arrive above.  Its too fast to see it or isolate it otherwise.  The LA earthquake in the move began within seconds after 2:13pm on September 6 or 9-6.

Do we see 9-6 anywhere else in the movie?  Yes, at least one place.  Factually, the largest earthquake in recorded history is the 1960 Valdivia, Chile quake of 9.4-9.6M, considered to have been a 9.5M.  In the movie, one of the last shots and comments is that the fictional LA-SF earthquakes portrayed were, in retrospect, 9.6M (top right of the screen shot):

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The first thing that struck me regarding the movies were, of course, the three dates of "Knowing" which were October 15, 17 and 19 about which I've written and will not discuss here.  But there were two other items; Jubilee and the time duration of October 13 to 19 or 7 days including the end points. Mr. Gann takes time in at least two places in TTTTA to recompute Jubilee time periods and "Knowing" give us the 50-year flashback.  And Mr. Gann's reference in the Foreword to the 6 days of creation and the 7th day on which he rested as being a great question associated with Robert Gordon's seven days seemed to dovetail with the "Knowing" seven days.  A very dark movie.

Again in the Foreword, the "Robert Gordon's seven day" challenge indicates that IF one knew the answer of that challenge (I have written several essays on and have decipher the math of RG's trip), then he would understand the 7 days of creation and the 3 days of resurrection:

So, in "2012" we have the three days leading to December 21.  A movie divided, seemingly, between darkness and light.

Only one date in the "San Andreas" and it is 9-6.  I bought the line that this film masterpiece (said facetiously) would be scrubbed of dates and this one date was a mistake.  I bought it until I saw the quake was pointedly, a 9.6M.  I became suspicious.  And then I realized why my interest was so piqued.  The "number" of WD Gann, according to Luo Clement's method of interpretation, that being the date number is the day of the month born and the name number is the single digit of the Pythagorean sum of the first name (the name a person "considers" him or herself) is:

It is almost as if the 'author' signed his name in code, eight decades ago.

"San Andreas," a movie starkly viewed in complete daylight as if a truth is viewed in its complete nakedness. 

We already had the dates October 13, 15 and 19 (the last of which reduces to 11-9 or 911 in reverse) from "Knowing."  Now we have dates of December 21 (which reduces to 3-3 and is the same in reverse) and September 6 (which reduces to 9-6 and is 6-9 in reverse) from "2012" and "San Andreas," respectively.  I don't know.  I just don't know.

Jim Ross