Noah (2014) - A World Without Men?

★★☆☆☆

In case you don’t know, Noah is a descendant of Adam and Eva, a task-doer instructed by God to build an ark so as to survive the flood that was supposed to wipe out all the sinful men on Earth, and also the proof of God’s imperfection, because if God was so perfect, he wouldn’t have created such an imperfect world where imperfect beings like Adam and Eva would be easily tempted to fall. And he wouldn’t have regretted it and wanted to flush us all away and start it all over again using the flood. I can’t help but wonder what was really going wrong with God and Noah since they all seem pretty fickle.

‘Noah’ is nothing dramatic or biblical but a plain story of love and forgiveness. Acting and special effects are not impressive though. I don’t have a slight idea what’s really going on in ‘Noah’s Ark’, so I’m a bit surprised when Noah says he’s told to start a new world without men after the flood. Meaning he’s supposed to bury himself and his whole family as well. Not a single man should be left alive afterwards, but of course he can’t seem to do what he’s told in the end. Why did God deliberately pick someone that he knew was bound to fail him? Was God making a joke or testing him or what? Why didn’t God simply make something perfect in the first place so that he wouldn’t have to make such a fuss to fix it later? Well, only God knows. Maybe he’s rather confused like most of us.

What if men were all flooded and killed? What about a world without men? I’m not sure if it’d be better off without us, but I’m very sure we’d be better off showing more respect to it!