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Director: Darren Aronofsky
I was looking forward to seeing this film, not expecting it to be too accurate, it is a Hollywood blockbuster and we are under the incorrect assumption that Noah (Russel Crowe) took two of every animal (look it up, there were more). However I did have the hope it would get the main story right and be an enjoyable film, I was sorely disappointed.
SPOILER ALERT***
For starters, I thought the prelude to the actual building of the ark and what follows was bizarre to say the least. A lot in the film wasn't explained and played out in the way children understand bible stories. It suggested that Cain and Abel were the only children of Adam and Eve, which begs the question how were they able to procreate and populate the earth. Also the absence of Noah's mother is not even mentioned, she's not mentioned at all and if he and his father are the only good people left on earth, where did he find his wife (Jennifer Connelly)? Of course as adults we can work this out but if you're going to tell a bible story, you can at least do it right. The absence of wives for Ham (Logan Lerman) and Jephthah (Leo McHugh Carroll) also irked me, in the original story all three are married before God instructs Noah to build an ark. It also rained for forty days and forty nights, hardly long enough for a girl who's only just found out she's pregnant to give birth, which Emma Watson's character Ila, the wife of Shem (Douglas Booth), manages to do. All in all it was a very confused film, even now I'm not entirely sure what it was about and so inaccurate I don't think anyone who knows the story can say it's the same.
It was a good idea that just didn't work, the screenplay was dreadful and it's not a film I'd watch again. I can say that the acting and CGI was good, beyond that I don't have a lot to say about it. If you want to see it go ahead, but don't go to see the story of Noah, go to see a film that involves a flood that wipes out most of earth. That's what it's about and really, when you think about it, how dull is that?
