TWISTED PERCEPTIONS

Please do not waste your money going to see the movie Noah nor even consider it when it comes out on DVD. You are wasting your time and it frankly hurts the heart. The writer/director of this movie has taken a sacred part of our human history and twisted it into his own humanistic purposes. Going into seeing this movie, I was going to keep an open mind. It is obvious that the story of Noah would be embellished. The bible gives us the basics of the story allowing for anyone to take it and fill in the gaps. I read a fictional book based on the book of Noah that I thought was very good in that it filled in the gaps but stuck to the main guts of the story in the bible. This was not done in this movie. The only truthfulness within it is the names of Noah and his sons. Let me share with you just a few of the twisted parts of this movie so I can get it off my chest. Yes, this interpretation of the story of Noah made me angry. I was very tempted to get up in the movie and walk out. In the beginning of the story, Noah is characterized as a protective father and husband but his character becomes twisted with what he perceives is God’s purpose for the flood, to kill all humankind. He gets all this from his dreams which is the movie’s way of saying how Noah got the message to build the ark. Wrong, wrong, all wrong. God gave Noah specific instructions on how to build the ark. This did not come in a dream. So, because Noah is interpreting a dream, he becomes this madman who is obsessed with the fact that he must ensure his family does not survive. They are only on the ark to protect the animals who are to survive. When his adopted daughter who is the wife of Shem becomes pregnant, he says if it is a boy he will let it live but he will be the last man to live but if it is a girl he will kill it immediately. Well, guess what? She has not one girl but twin girls. This actually alleviates the problem of the other two sons who don’t seem to have wives with them as the true biblical account states. Throw in these “rock” people who are supposedly fallen angels who are there to protect humankind and it becomes a total joke. To make matters worse, after the floods dry up and they leave the ark, Noah becomes a drunk, living isolated from his family. It doesn’t end with the promise that God made to Noah to never flood the earth again but to bless him and his family making them fruitful. The director threw in a spectrum of color like a rainbow at the end just to twist it all in. His interpretation obviously came from his atheistic viewpoint.  I am disgusted and sick by it all and ask you to please not waste your time but ban this movie altogether. Read your bible and don’t forget that the truth is only in the bible and we must be very wary of any other sources.