Noah
Not sure I would have seen Noah otherwise, but there was a preview screening at the Museum of the Moving Image. It's an interesting movie, in a better way than when your spouse is saying your banana bread is interesting, but I'm still not sure it's actually a good movie. But interesting. The first interesting thing is the complete lack of sugar coating. We can spend so much time with bible stories growing up, the idealized kinds of stories suitable for children of all ages, that we can forget that most of the people in those stories are kind of crazy. Cain, Abraham, Joseph, Noah certainly. And the director Darren Aronofsky doesn't let us forget that about Noah. Nor does the portrayal by Russell Crowe. There isn't a thing about the movie that lets us forget that you have to be a certain kind of crazy to build an ark because God tells you to, and to do most of the things that Noah goes around doing in the classic bible story of Noah. It's an interesting choi