Noah

At the polar opposite of God's Not Dead, a humble yet profound movie, we find Noah, a glitzy and depraved one (once again duplicating the dynamics of individuals -- the more there is without, the less there is within). The depravity here is the inversion of a timeless story. Whereas the Noah of literature warned of and endured God's wrath at humanity's overweening pride, the Noah of Hollywood trumpets and delivers Gaia's wrath at humanity's carnivorism and strip mining. In other words, Noah has been repackaged to fit the modern, neo-pagan mindset that worships body (either man's or the planet's) over soul. According to this mindset, for example, a vulgar and unfaithful man is good so long as he eats vegetables and routinely gets checked for STDs. Just think for a moment how senseless this truly is -- would God destroy the Earth out of anger at how man was hurting the Earth? No, God destroyed the Earth out of anger at how man was hurting himself, and Him. The health of the body and the planet is secondary, and disposable, in comparison to the health of the soul.

If there's any good to come from this film, it is that it may serve as a fitting example of the very pride and materialism that God punished in the Biblical telling. Once again, John C. Wright's instincts are on target.