I know people who think this is one of the most romantic films ever made and I envy their belief.Īronofsky’s big hit, which won an Oscar for Natalie Portman. Aronofsky lost his lead and part of his budget right before shooting, which might account for the narrative elisions. The score by Clint Mansell is what you’d hear if your massage therapist wanted to induce a stroke. He’s also a bald guy in the lotus position floating in a bubble. In the main, modern thread, he’s a scientist who labors to cure cancer before his precious wife (Rachel Weisz) gives up the ghost. God as a tree-hugger? Blasphemy!Īronofsky is mad about mandalas and golden orbs in this loony-tunes Buddhist time-travel extravaganza, starring Hugh Jackman as a man at war with death in three evolutionary phases, each intercut for maximum mystification. The film is not irreverent, but religious right-wingers were incensed that God’s chief reason for the flood was that mankind was despoiling of the natural world. Another multiplex-friendly addition is the group of fallen angels who live as boulders but can assemble themselves into primordial Transformers. The studio demanded melodrama to go with Old Testament spectacle, which means Russell Crowe’s cranky Noah (who at one point tries to slaughter his family) does battle with a murderous stowaway who’s a descendant of Cain. Nowhere near as bad as you’ve heard, but certainly Aronofsky’s least personal work. But it’s self-aggrandizing instead of self-analytical, and turns Lawrence - until now a blessedly un-masochistic actress - into a doll for a director to torture. Aronofsky seems to be trying to do an auto-critique - to dramatize an artist’s sadism toward his characters and performers. But the surrealistic last act is like the Marx Brothers’ stateroom without the laughs. The early scenes feel like a theater piece tricked out with Gothic horror effects and a big dose of Polanski’s Rosemary’s Baby.
Jennifer Lawrence is “mother,” who tries to create a country paradise for her writer husband (Javier Bardem, identified as Him) but is increasingly unnerved, alienated, and assaulted by hordes of invaders.
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