He has to be confident in the Creator’s will. Even Noah, who trusts entirely in the Creator, must interpret and execute visions that are never straightforward or certain. These people live in a world of strange, unknowable forces, and it’s difficult for them to find peace and happiness amid such unpredictable danger. This is ultimately a story of redemption, but Aronofsky makes the characters and the audience earn that fresh start. “Mankind must end,” he asserts, with only a minimal tinge of regret. Noah’s eldest son Shem (Douglas Booth) falls in love with Ila (Emma Watson), an orphan saved from an attack by Tubal-cain’s raiders, but Noah sees no future for the couple or their potential offspring. He’s an insidious villain, but he’s also not wrong about the judgmental, inflexible Noah, who sees his own family as collateral damage in the Creator’s plan. Tubal-cain manages to stow away on the ark, where he continues to influence Noah’s angry middle son Ham (Logan Lerman).
Noah sees his task from the Creator as just a job that needs to be done, and his own family as the task’s collateral damage. Noah, new to Amazon Prime, fits perfectly between Aronofsky’s other parables about humanity’s doom, 2006’s The Fountain and 2017’s Mother! It’s a haunting, otherworldly film with the structure of one of the most familiar stories in the world. Aronofsky stages battle scenes to rival any superhero movie, but he also focuses on intimate drama, with a bleak view of human nature slightly tempered by hope. That’s exactly what Darren Aronofsky does in his 2014 film Noah, which expands on the biblical story of the great flood by making it into a somber blockbuster epic. Without the obligation to preach, it’s possible to approach the Bible as a set of fantastical stories to adapt. For every First Reformed there are a dozen sanctimonious God’s Not Dead sequels and spinoffs, so maybe it takes an outsider to create an awe-inspiring work of art based on the foundational text of Western civilization. The Old Testament is full of strange and brutal stories, but they rarely appear within the closed community of Christian filmmaking.
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