We saw "Noah" yesterday, after the recommendation of our son. The film left us with lots to talk about, and caused my husband to read about various flood stories in history and even read the Bible. As our son said, it's not perfectly done, but the ideas are interesting, and the acting excellent. I thought the "watchers" were neat, though they resembled the rock guy in "Neverending Story", and the special effects were good. The drama of a man who thinks he knows the will of God is, well, biblical and timeless. The rifts within the family are engaging and realistic. That Noah sees the inevitability of man destroying nature and each other again and still chooses hope is touching, and something each of us undergoes in our modern world. The king's vision of man as conqueror and user of the world for his needs and pleasure is equally prevalent in our time. They run Wall Street and most of everything else.
Russell Crowe is perfect for the role and Jennifer Connelly is fine as his wife for a second time (remember "Beautiful Mind")? Emma Watson and the other kids are good, and Aronofsky makes you care about all of them. I love some of the details surrounding the animals, and the scale of the Ark is perfect. The watery effects are great.
I wish there had been more of the landing and we had seen the animals disembark. There is something dimmished about the last part of the movie which makes it anticlimatic.
But the questions raised are as big as it gets and transcend cultures and times. Are we stewards of the earth or lords? Were we meant to eat our fellow creatures? And what does it do to us if we choose to do so? Is our nature more dark than light, or have we choice to turn from the dark to the light? Will man bring about his own destruction yet again? Something to ponder.
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