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Noah Our Wild Hearts12/24/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() And regardless of how much violence may (or may not) have been done to the original story, at a time when bedrock stories of Western literature are on the decline for mainly religious reasons, any bringing-to-life of the primal images, fears, and clouded hopes of the original story seems welcome. Unfortunately, the biblical version contains few details, so some amount of improvisation on Aronofsky’s part was necessary. The movie’s received a good deal of the wrong kind of attention from Christian viewers, who cite its (admittedly generous) artistic license, veering away from the original Bible story. His reach is as high as the firmament, and his grasp only slightly behind. ![]() It’s the director at his most ambitious yet, no longer content with harrowing tales of addiction or dark meditations on doppelgängers. Director Darren Aronofsky’s new biblical epic, Noah, is wild – think of it as the 300 of Bible stories, an exaggeratedly Aronofskyan Silent Spring, or simply Kon-Tiki 6.0. ![]()
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