Saw this film last Thursday. Action/adventure/CGA is there and entertaining. However, what was provocative for me was the interpretive expression of this film. I consider it in many ways a thoughtful portrayal of a myth in terms that go beyond your standard Christian-based moral theme. In truth, Christians do not own the myth of Noahs ark, have no patent on how the story is told and have no business condemning this particular film based on theological differences with the interpretation. The account of Noahs ark in the Hebrew Bible is Hebrew-defined, not Christian. Christians did not author this story. If anyone owns the Noah story it is the original Hebrew authors whose intent obviously did not jive with 19th-21st century Christian fundamentalist values. Case in point is the un-addressed issue of how the human race will restore itself based on the necessity for procreation between family members in order to multiply and replenish the earth as God commands in the myth. Just as the original scriptural account of Noah never addresses such questions as the implied incest demanded of the only humans who remain alive on the earth, neither does the movie. Rather, the movie forces one to ponder such a circumstance and perhaps even question how extraordinary circumstances might severely restrict rigid moral systems. The filmmakers have no obligation to cater to Christian value systems in any moral or religious sense. The only weight would be that of some sort of foolish and hostile boycott that would have influenced whether or not we got to see the film as it was intended. Too late ... its out there now, asking thought-provoking questions and tempting the most judgmental to demonstrate the shallowness of their end of the pool.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 21:46:05 +0000
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