Darren Aronofsky's Noah – Chapter 2

The world is filled with violence, smoke rises to the heavens, and Noah seeks justice.

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Will he kill or won’t he? Noah (Russell Crowe) holds a spear over a poacher.

The film jumps ahead in time to a point when Noah is all grown up with a family of his own, including the two sons that we see in this scene.

NOAH: Ham. What are you doing?
HAM: It’s pretty.

Images. Our first glimpse of the adult Noah is a close-up of his hands scraping some lichen into a small container. This is similar to a scene in The Fountain, where Tommy the space traveler survives on the moss and bark that he scrapes off of a tree.

Noah scrapes some lichen into a container in Noah.

Tommy scrapes some bark from a tree in The Fountain.

Note also the stars and, possibly, galaxies that are visible in the daytime sky. This is one of the subtler ways in which the film suggests that Creation was different before the Flood, and may have changed because of the Flood: the natural laws of Noah’s day were different from the laws of nature that we now know today.

As Aronofsky put it to Empire magazine, if the first rainbow didn’t appear until after the Flood, “who’s to say they even had blue skies before the Flood?” Similarly, co-writer Ari Handel told Paste magazine, “No rainbows had ever been in the sky, so the physics of the sky and light may have been somehow different.” There is room to be imaginative here.