Aronofskys Noah: I went to see Noah last night and sense we all know the ending I will not spoil the movie for those who have not seen it yet ;) Let me give you a few observations. The Good: 1) Aronofsky took the problem with human evil very seriously, so much so that the movie had an extremely heavy and dark tone throughout. 2) Aronofsky took the concept of a universal flood seriously. 3) Aronofsky took the need for a divine intervention seriously to save the planet. 4) Aronofsky wove a very powerful story from the personalities and elements from antediluvian culture and made it real to life in many ways. For instance, he took Tubal-Cains oneline reference (Gen 4:22) and made a good villain out of him. Also, he took Noahs family line seriously and crafted Methuselah (who by-the-way if you do the calculations lived up to the very time of the flood) into an important miracle-working personality (although, a little too shaman for me). 5) Aronofsky showed how the will to power was mans greatest problem and a need to hear from God, no matter how hard it is to do so, is vital. 6) He showed how awful it had to have been to have been on the boat why a world of human beings was totally abandoned to destruction. 7) He dealt with the fact that all have sinned, all have left God, and there is none righteous, no not one. The Bad: 1) Aronofsky, brought a ridiculous meat-eaters-are-evil-and-vegans-are-good pitch into the story line, even being unwilling to show the important animal sacrifice at the end of the story. 2) He attempted to use the Watchers as generally human-loving to a fault but only in a good way and never showed them as sinister in the worst way. Aronofsky seemed to love them more than human beings and had sympathy for them more! Besides it was the cheesiest element of the whole storyline. The watchers in the Bible were not considered good in any way (see Genesis 6:2-4 in which they seem to have been the part of the deep corruption of humanity). 3) Aronofsky, being a modern, wove the loss-of-the-environment-due-to-human-advancements way too much into the story and it was as close to ridiculous as the all-meat-eaters-are-evil crap. Overall a very compelling story and very arresting in its impact. BUT it could appeal more to the modern mindset of a Gospel for a god-lite, tree-hugging, vegan-embracing, environmental-wacko, animals-are-more-important-than-humans worldview than a Judio-Christian worldview
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:42:43 +0000
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