Noah By Aronofsky Analysis

In Noah, Aronofsky made a thrilling movie about a man who saved his family from a worldwide catastrophic flood by God. Even though the movie itself wasn’t portrayed as exact as the Genesis, but he did a good interpretation on it. Though the bible lacked some details, many interpreters including Aronofsky filled in the gaps with their own ideas and elaborations. Impressively, his interpretations manage to stay relevant to the story of Noah’s Ark, but there were some elements of the movie that didn’t correspond to the original.

In the movie, Aronofsky focused more on the human conflicts between good and evil through evil manifestations and manipulation of desires. For example, the antagonistic narrative the film creates between Noah’s

According to Aronofsky’s interpretation of them, they have been encrusted in stone and helped Noah construct the ark. The film presents the Watchers as forged of fired, made by The Creator on the Second day where He also made the heavens. To Aronofsky’s accordance, they came along before Adam and Eve and as well looked after them. However, the Watchers weren’t greatly mentioned in the Old Testament, in fact, they were in the Book of Enoch. The book tells they were fallen angles tasked with watching over man. But there was nothing about them being appeared as rock monsters. The bible specifically said, “When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of human were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” This represents the separation between God and humans. However, these creatures helped God replenish and multiply the earth with their human’s wives, this caused God to forsake them. In Noah, they were simply rejected by The Creator and were hunted by wicked man. Luckily for Noah’s purpose, to help the Creator to cleanse the Earth of man’s wickedness, wins them over and gained back His trust. I believe that this was like a test for them, similar to Noah’s decision to