The best way to write an article about a movie you haven’t seen is to approach it obliquely. The movie would be Noah, starring Russell Crowe; the approach would be iconoclasm. Unsurprisingly, the film’s been banned in several Muslim-majority countries, though not as many as you’d think. Then again, in light of how many Muslims in many such countries want to watch Russell Crowe embody a significant Muslim Prophet, such a ban may well be superfluous beyond the oil-rich Gulf.
But why was it banned? What does it say about Islam? Have I watched other movies I’ve written long, ponderous reviews of? Is the movie faithful to Noah’s chronology, like 1,000 years of waiting and then 40 days of flooding? If you get up to get a snack during the movie, do you miss anything?
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