Noah (2014)

Darren Aronofsky’s latest film Noah starts at the beginning, and also ends there. It’s meant as an eco cautionary tale, as told from the perspective of a ruined mythical landscape purged by an extreme weather event to those of us living at the tail end of the next iteration, currently witness to singular events of initial devastation caused by changes in our own climate. The film’s message could be interpreted as misanthropic; focused as it is on the caretaking of the diversity in the animal kingdom — rendered in creative CGI combinations — and the question of whether humankind should be allowed to continue in a new world after it destroyed the previous one. Read the full review here.