Critique on Noah..............Copied from a comment under a query posted by Tim Gilman.... I saw NOAH last evening......at IMAX at the Regal 16 complex in Bellingham, WA. First time I had been to a movie since 2009......and I do NOT *do* Netflix ner Redbox ner any other *narrative indulgences* ( as I call them ), as they seem to detract from my sense of self and security in the world. I view them ( pun intended ) as a waste of time. I attended as part of a Christian singles group at our church--where I am trying to be a *loyalist* and stick up for the eunuchs-in-Christ concept in being celibate, etc.--Sooo I do not get to choose the entertainment, and get dragged along in my corpus . . . . Aronofsky supposedly is in the atheist camp, and his theme was expressed by Tubal-Cain ( the bad guy ) Man succeeds by using his WILL and not by relying upon heaven. But, of course, heaven wins out for now, and despite his theological *cop-out* for this film, I think it really rates well as far as contemporary cinemetography goes : The acting was well-thought-out and brought off at the top of the performers game ( even down to the cameo of Anthony Hopkins *hunting for berries*--as a humorous shadow of his time in Silence of the Lambs; ) and you had to watch closely, and not get caught up in the story-bashing to see the film as the existential struggle of NOAH in the hand of God, and undergoing the HUGE post traumatic stress syndrome, including his abject withdrawl ( not very well portrayed as you could tell the director was running out of footage/time, etc. ). The strongest message of the film was its PRO-LIFE stance with a very biting delivery by the female protagonist of the film. And.....MOST NOTABLY.....there was no asking for forgiveness and no mention of forgiveness granted, which I THINK is in keeping with Aronofskys assumption of a pre-literate time, when mankind was more keenly driven by his emotions rather than his/her reason ( HOW do you explain the female protagonists strong soliloquy, then....Heh ! If there was THAT MUCH sense in the female counterpart, there should have ALSO been some major references to forgiveness and reconciliation.....but the astute viewer needed to *draw this conclusion* to bring the film *forth from the ashes* of another mans interpretation of pre-literate history. Three-and-a-half stars....
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 08:43:24 +0000
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