Noah (3D)

The thing about Aronofsky, dear readers, is that he tells his stories in the voice of the subconscious. You know how, sometimes, you dream something that could easily be a regular day in your life? Except that you spot something in it that cannot possibly have any relationship to reality.

Not that this retelling of the story of a man responsible for humanity's second innings has much to do with realism. In fact, the whole narrative runs very much like a larger-than-life amalgamation of a hell fire and brimstone sermon, a child's imagination, a sinner's nightmare, and the life an....