As I said, Aronofsky made no pretense of trying to stay true to the narrative in Genesis. He's said that several times. The point was to make a movie about fanaticism, and how easy it is for some people to think that God commands them to kill, when in fact God wants nothing of the sort.
Well....his point is convoluted, if that's the message he wanted to give. Fanaticism is definitely out!
First of all, in his movie.....he gave an indication that God indeed was "communicating" with Noah. The miracles such as the rapid growth of a plant, and the woodlands, animals coming to the ark, were witnessed by Noah and his family! No one can say that Noah was simply hallucinating....the miracles were experienced by his entourage!
When God showed everyone His mighty power, and that He holds all their lives in His hand.....Arofnosky says Noah is being a "fanatic" for trying to follow and please this almighty Power? When he already knows that God meant to obliterate all of mankind? :lol:
Who wouldn't try to please anyone who holds your very life in His hands? What more if it's a God who can't be stopped? How is that "fanaticism?"
If we follow the logic of Arofnosky's story idea (and disregard the actual Genesis account) - the logic will have to be that Noah was right, and that he has to make sure all people (including his own family and himself) die.
If God was communicating with Noah all the way from the beginning....it should be Noah who'll know what God wants (not his wife or his daughter in-law who acted that they knew more than Noah did!)
Suddenly, Noah is so densed he can't get what's so obvious to the women?
The movie failed to make sense. All that talk and strong conviction of Noah that God has to be obeyed (and Noah meant really to kill his granddaughter)....and later on (after he scared his family witless), without any strong reason, he suddenly changed his tune? And the women understood God better than Noah did.
OHh....the super-women, really. Hollywood has to elevate them at every turn! :mrgreen:
It's a cheesy movie....with an A-list cast. It's done by a confused man who can't make up his mind if he'll make a fantasy disaster, or a secularly politically-correct statement that pegs down the Christian God - yet at the same time he counts on the Christians to turn this into a blockbuster! Good thing I only rented the movie, at a discount to boot.
I'd give it a C+. Because of Russel Crow and Hopkins and Winstone (Tubal Cain), and Jennifer Connelly.
Without them, it will be a D!
Come to think of it...I'd seen better acting from Russell Crow than that. He could be on the way down.