Noah [DVD] [2017]

This is the 'Great Reset' of all Great Resets.....I really enjoyed watching Noah from Darren Aronofsky as it was very well acted, the story mixed in canonical and non-canonical elements of the Creation /Genesis story and it is a visually stunning film.However, I'd have loved to have seen more of the dream sequences fleshed out to make a more surrealistic visual experience for the The Flood story since the dream sequences / prophecy / psychedelic visuals perfectly portray the Creation, exit from Eden and portents of impending destruction.It would have been great to incorporate some of the powerful 'psychedelic' visuals to portray Noah's internal struggles and mental conflicts which were apparent toward the end of the film although Russell Crowe does a great job of expressing this through his acting - in fact it is all well acted and it was great to see Ray Winstone turn up as Tubal-Cain as he plays a bad guy so well.......even if he has a broad cockney accent in everything he stars in....I'd definitely recommend this to anyone wanting to view a different (and possibly more complete?) take on the The Flood story than is currently taught by mainstream religious institutions.

Noah (2014) has some strong acting by strong actors. Scripting involved creative “what ifs”, some deconstructing of facts, some reconstruction of fantasy. The global feel in ‘Genesis’ might be due to its writing style: “my world” ranges in meaning from me and my friends, to the planet I live on. History records an epic Mesopotamian flood. The film opted for dramatic global cataclysm, and engineered in a mythical spirit-people called the Watchers, based on a once popular Jewish fantasy called 1 Enoch (see Karen Jobe’s 1 Peter, 2005:235-60). The movie pictures them as disobedient spirits imprisoned in mineral bodies by the sometimes hard to hear Creator. Not totally bad, like Prometheus they helped mankind. Mankind meanwhile has narrowed into two factions, a Cain and an almost extinct Seth tribe, to which Methuselah and grandson Noah belong: old Methuselah plays some interesting parts. The Watchers can be killed, have bad history with the evil Cainites, and eventually risk themselves helping Noah to build the ark in order to save the good which would otherwise be drowned away by the prophesied flood. Their involvement shows that unlike Zeus, the Creator has not abandoned them, and perhaps even imprisoned them for the greater good, since to be slain in his service frees them into heaven and allows the ark to serve its purpose – they will die happy, and Hollywood likes its Marvels.Factually Noah’s three sons (Shem, Ham, and Japheth) all had wives before the flood. The movie opted for only Shem being married – we actually see the honeymoon begin on the eve of the flood. It names his wife Ila. (She’d been unable to have children, and it’s puzzling why Noah’s been pleased, until we learn he’s suffered from the muddle-headed idea that the Creator wished mankind (the Imago Dei) to re-establish the animal kingdom and then itself to die out, leaving the animal well rid of man the hunter. So, no more children, thank you. Noah’s family are aghast when he tells his vision, allowing a plotline of high tension with themes of patricide and infanticide locked in mortal combat.)Noah reconnoitres the enemy camp of Tubal-Cain. Was he looking for women to marry his single sons? This recce allows the sinfulness of the rest of humanity (conveniently all under Cain’s roof?) to show as hellish – good special effects. The story will show that Seth’s lot are bad but better – all mankind is fallen.Before the flood, Noah’s reluctance to help Ham get a wife compounds into Ham siding with the enemy leader, the Cainite Tubal-Cain, though with some level of repentance. Noah, single-minded in his fuzzy vision, gets to the crisis point of infanticide, the killing of Shem & Ila’s twin daughters: we wonder if they are the Creator’s gift for Ham & Japheth – there was no ethical ban. Vital missions can be undermined by capture to emotions: will his emotions sadly overcome his integrity? He seems to fall by emotion. The ark lands, and depresed he wanders off to get dead drunk. Sons Shem & Japheth stand by him, but still embittered Ham walks out – will he die a hermit?Ila helps Noah get over depression, arguing from the love that stayed Noah’s hands from infanticide. Ignoring the idea of love as a divine call not to kill, she suggests that love was the Creator’s gift enabling Noah to judge whether mankind was inherently worth a second chance. Presumably it was, and so presumably the Creator ‘foresaw’ and backed Noah’s mercy in acting more obediently than he thought he had (like the Watchers?). It ends on a hopeful note.A vision-like telling of creation days also deserves fair credit, but overall I feel this creative movie could have done better by padding, without rewriting, history. Divisive, but its division is worth discussion.

I had no intention to watch this, but since my first choice could not be played for technical reasons, I thought I d give this film a try..Well, I think it's worth; the director follows the Biblical narrative in the most of the film. However, he probably used information from other sources (apocryphal textes) to shed light into some enigmatic characters mentioned in the Bible; the giants or watchers, as they are called in the film.They are supposed to be angelical beings who tried to help humans- that is a concept beyond/ against Christian mainstream theology, but very similar to Greek mythology and Prometheus.The psychological insight to Noah and his mental instability is convincing and I dont think it shows lack of respect to the Biblical patriarch. I also enjoyed the of the descendant of Kain , the villain of the story, who managed somehow to sneak in the Arch. Same with Anthony Hopkins as Lamech.The whole film points out the weakness of man to harmonize fully with the divine plan and the importance of the human will in the history. Apocalyptic scenes portraying the depravity of man & massive destruction brought by the flood, are super fitted with these Corona-days.