Megan MacDonald-Noah

I truly enjoyed seeing Noah with my philosophy class.  I loved the insightful conversation at the end.  My mind is still blown by the internal battle I had with the thought of liking Noah or not.  Despite his get-up (which I loved), his human, sinful struggle turned me off to him.  The hero I have known my whole life as someone who made the world a better place ends up naked on the beach, passed out drunk.  But in a way that is the beauty of it.  This man, by the will and grace of God, truly had to endure one of the most difficult tasks as a man of God.  He committed a genocide because the Lord asked him to do so.  The psychological pain that Noah endured was daunting.  How Noah dealt with the pain made me hate him.  But my life looks no different than his.  I deal with things just as sinfully as he did.  So why do I loathe him? Is it because the hero I thought he would be did not come true? Or was it because I thought if God used him he must have had it all together.... Man I hope to resemble that one day.  My pride could have been the cause of this cognitive conflict, but besides all this I truly enjoyed the movie and the discussion!