Noah, standing over his granddaughters with a knife ready to kill them and everybody else on the ark, including himself, except the animals who are the only non-sinners, and this is a decent movie? Oh, reviewers say, but he has a change of heart and cannot do the wicked deed. This is outrageous. The whole movie is outrageous and an insult to the holy patriarch, the father of us all. I am astonished Catholic Culture would carry this review by Thomas Van. I suggest two other reviews that vindicate the real Noah. One we have published already on our website here. And another, cleverly written with satire, here.
Thomas Van, Catholic Culture: Darren Aronofsky’s Noah lets us know within the first thirty seconds that it isn’t a literal translation of the Biblical account. In the course of a text opening that quickly recounts the story of Eden, the fall of Adam and Eve, and Cain’s murder of Abel, we learn that Cain and his descendants were helped by a band of fallen angels called the Watchers, who taught them technology and helped them to build vast industrial cities, laying waste to the earth. At this point viewers who care about the traditional Flood story may be tempted to conclude that the film is an environmentalist propaganda piece which brushes over the moral and spiritual evils which brought on the deluge, but they would be wrong. It is soon made clear that the descendants of Cain are guilty of more than just overzealous mining: they have covered the whole world with wickedness and violence. Full review here.
