1) Loved Noah 2) I give a clap to the exec who decided to give Aronofsky $125 million dollars to make such a film. When I was growing up in a Catholic family I always questioned in the Noahs Ark tale why we glance over the death of EVERYONE in the world. Its really dark story to tell the kids, right? Well here is our answer... NOAH was a bleak, often disturbing, triumph of a film (like all of his other movies) This film will not be a crowdpleaser. It follows a five act structure, has no moments of levity, and makes no judgement either way in whether it is positive towards God or not, and for those who call Hollywood lefties weirdos with messages: a big ecology message. Russell Crowe turns in what may be his best performance (I soon thought of Noah, not Crowe as I watched) as the lead in a film discussing the relationships between Man, his god, his duty, his morals, and all the grey areas in between each of those. Nothing is truly cut and dry (dry particularly ;-) ) on every level; Noah is not a perfect man, not merely Gods chosen man to perform in his task, he has to make hellish decisions, has his own doubts and the things he must do but doesnt truly want to - or has to look at what on the indivual level may be a bad act but good in utilitarianism. Ray Winstone, who I thought was Mickey Rourke for the first few times I saw the trailer, does a great job as the human villain -MINOR SPOILERS COMING UP- I particularly like a scene where he laments I am made in your image. I am a man. Why wont you talk to me? to God - it questions that God is so willing to destroy the world but did he let it happen by turning his back to his people (it is also noted he has been quiet since he marked Cain). See, not all is God is great, reaffirm your love to him. Also of note for the disturbing was the wails of those in the process of death by drowning. Hearing them outside the Ark for minutes was hard. I was surprised by and greatly enjoyed elements like the fallen angels and majorly by the design of the world - the Cains descendant world was full of more modern iron work ruins than expected. The film received a C Cinemascore - Im not surprised - the trailers left out many fantastical and the darker elements (outside of that whole drowning the world thing, but hey we tell this story to kids in Sunday school) and CinemaScore seems to be... does it match the trailer? rather than was it good?
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 07:13:05 +0000
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