Noah

Before we begin I want to clarify that I will be referring to God as "he". Why? Because her is three letters and he is two. I'm lazy.


I am not a religious person. The closest thing I have to a god is probably some writer or director that I admire (don't want to play favourites but Christopher Nolan and maybe Frank Herbert).

I have read the bible, not cover to cover but the most popular of stories. Creation, Adam and Eve, Jonah and the whale. The one about the guy...Jesus something. All of these stories that a lot of people found helpful and important I never really cared for, but there was ome that I actually really liked and that was the one about Noah and the ark.

It had adventure, a big ass boat and truckloads (Arkloads?) of animals, everything a young boy likes. Even if the actual message never really made its way into my brain, I haf a blast reading it, and now in my adult life I still don't actually get the whole destroying the world thing. God, to me, seems to be a spoiled child with way to much power. He sits in his big ass sandbox and builds this massive and complex sandcastle, uäbut as soon as something isn't quite working the way he wants it to, he smashes the whole thing like nothing and starts over... bad example.

He has this huge and awesome fishtank with so many different fish in it, but as soon as the water starts filling up with algae and fish start dying, he just flushes the whole thing and buys new fish...that's better.
He does however save his favourite fish and by doing so, this fish gets a sense of entitlement.
The fish starts telling people what to do and sets rules by his own volition...damnit.

Ok, so the fish thing doesn't really work. Fish don't really have the mental capacity to be selfrighteous bastards. What I am trying to say is that by singleing out Noah as his protogé, God is granting one individual with the power of a god. Granted, he does have to do Gods bidding, but he is given way more power than any one individual should have.

The concept of megalommania is however all to foreign to God since he never had to answer for his behaviour. In essence, God is not fit to handle the reaponibilities of a god. Many of you will probably argue that God is not human and therefore can't make any mistakes, that he has always been wise and all knowing. But the Bible is full of examples of him fucking up and fixing it by basicly cheating (Sodom and Gomorrah) and sometimes he just plain mean (Adam and Eve).

All of these stories have one common denominator except for god, and that is the human race. To paraphrase Rust Kohle

We are a mistake. We obviously doesn't fit in to gods plan, since we keep ruinig everything and he keeps punishing us. In the Noah story he had the chance to get rid of all of us but instead he saved a a few of us and look where we are now...

It's true like they say, God works in mysterious ways and god is certainly not human. He lacks the key traits that make one human. Humility and the ability to learn from his mistakes, and that is why he will have to smash his sandcastle and drain his fishtank over and over again.

But enough about that, how was the movie?
Pretty good. Cool effects and som pretty nifty camerawork. Aronofsky seemed a little scared of offending either side of the religious debate so Noah must be one of the most ambigious movie based on a biblical tale I have ever seen.

Jennifer connely overdid it in a few scenes and Emma watson gave the performance of her lifetime. Russel Crow was Russel Crow, for better or for worse wich ever you prefer.