Posted on 03/27/2014 8:04:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Most religious movies feel as if theyre made by a church committee, but every now and then a wild-eyed prophet wanders in and rattles the theater with brimstone. Regardless of your feelings about either movie, Mel Gibsons The Passion of the Christ qualifies and so does Martin Scorseses The Last Temptation of Christ. Now director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) has ascended to the mountaintop and returned with the strangest, most visionary cinematic parable yet.
Noah is equal parts ridiculous and magnificent, a showmans folly and a madmans epic. It elaborates on the Book of Genesiss slender story of Noah and the Ark with subplots and additional characters and computer-generated effects that would have Cecil B. DeMille drooling. If that stands to put off the faithful, many of them, and many others besides, may be won back by the films ambitious seriousness of purpose.
Aronofsky and co-writer Ari Handel are working on a vast, primeval scale here, as if they were carving their story out of rock. The movie hacks away at big ideas, too: mans stewardship of his planet, mans relationship with his Creator, the line where righteousness becomes mania. The parts of Noah that dont work really, truly dont. But the parts that do almost sweep you away in the flood.
First things first: Russell Crowe turns out to be perfectly cast in the title role. Hes big, hes implacable, he can turn on a dime from sensitivity to mournful fanaticism. Most importantly, he carries himself with the authority the sheer moral weight of an Old Testament patriarch.
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And George Bush as the devil.
Its Hollywood; not Holywood.
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in. (Genesis 7:16)
In the meantime, pass the burgers.
Hear, hear!
Review by Randall Price ...
Noah, The Film: All Washed Up
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3138756/posts
Unicorns are murdered in this movie, I will not see it.
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