![]() There's a crazed intelligence to its theological questioning ditto Russell Crowe's concentrated bottling of Noah's manifold ambiguities in brutish, buzz-cut form. There's ample abnegation of a more hessian-clad variety in Darren Aronofsky's Noah (Paramount, 12), an impressive misfire that recasts the biblical ark-builder as a severe environmentalist of indistinct faith and potentially destructive allegiance to his higher calling. Naturally, our multi-hued heroine Tris (Shailene Woodley) fits into no such convenient box and is reassigned to the outlying Divergent caste, whereupon her quest begins, for what we never quite find out, since this lengthy film is all sequel-building setup and no payoff.īrutish and buzz-cut: Russell Crowe in a scene from Darren Aronofsky's Noah. Humanity is divided into tribes named things such as Amity and Abnegation, the members of which are not expected to boast more than their allocated virtue. The film, with its elaborately constructed metaphor for pressured adolescent self-identification, and its earnestly humourless take on same, is set in a dystopian future. Most post-teen viewers are unlikely to feel the full, scowling impact of Divergent (eOne, 12), the latest would-be franchise to spring from a hit series of young adult novels, which is available to download on Monday, and on DVD in mid-August. If you're going to try it out, however, it may as well be on a film aimed at an audience that probably ranks DVDs just below 7in singles on the quaintness scale. I t is still fairly unorthodox for a major blockbuster's online release to precede its arrival on DVD. ![]()
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