This film is nothing but a string of jokes, folks, and all of them, to see how much pain we can inflict on Steve Carell.
I know it’s no biblical replay of the pain and suffering Noah went through to build an arc against all doubt, but once you hint that the world might be flooded, well… we kind of want to see a flood. A giant one. Not just a trickle of water down a valley adjacent to Washington D.C., where countless people are “perfectly fine,” sitting in their cars watching a wave bust down the street that doesn’t kill anymore.
I’m not saying I want death. In fact, I’m probably the only person you’ll meet who didn’t like Titanic because of all the drowning. It is my least favorite way to die. If we have to choose favorites.
That said, the story of Noah is about death. It’s about God killing everyone who hasn’t followed his will, and how the earth is, well, covered in jackasses. (We all know they won’t have to build a set for that. Just go out your front door, you’ll smack into the problem.)
Therefore, the “faith” portion of this story, the one where we learn to be good to our neighbors – have random acts of kindness - arrives when we see how Noah acts in an absence of faith. This happens when Noah, after he builds the arc and the flood comes, doesn’t hear hide nor hair from God for several day. All of a sudden, there is no land – anywhere – and the arc is starting to look like a bad idea, filled with animals and an angry wife.
Noah then must keep peace, send out the birds, look for land himself. God got him into this, but he’ll have to get himself out. The wife, the sons and their wives are antsy, supplies are running low and general malaise is kicking in. This is when our hero, Noah, must save the day with his incredible “faith.”
The birds are sent, and finally, with an olive branch, they return.
Noah turns to the wife and here we find that, believe in one’s potential is the greatest gift anyone, God or man, can give. And that is the meaning of changing the world to do what’s right.
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