The combination of Darren Aronofsky and the story of Noah is certainly an evocative one. Aronofsky’s films, including Requiem for a Dream and Black Swan, often feel like vivid fever dreams, and it’s an intriguing choice for him to tackle this huge biblical tale.
The resulting film, Noah, has its flaws but ultimately is a fascinating achievement - a continually ambitious undertaking that swings for the fences and then some. It doesn’t all work, but you have to admire Aronofsky’s moxie, and acknowledge all that he does pull off here.
The opening (including some text onscreen that, essentially, gives you a cliffs notes of the Bible, up to the Noah tale, over some cool Aronosfky visuals) establishes that God, here continually called “The Creator”, is certainly believed in by most everyone, but also has gone so long without making his presence felt that it’s assumed he long ago abandoned or moved on from the people he put on the Earth. An exception to this, of course, is Noah (Russell Crowe) who begins to have visions sent to him by the Creator, warning that thanks to humanity’s misdeeds, the end is coming, in the form of a great flood.
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