Director's creativity keeps 'Noah' from sinking

Filmmaker Darren Aronofsky specializes in movies about people driven to extremes - by drug addiction ("Requiem for a Dream"), by the quest for glory ("The Wrestler"), by madness ("Black Swan"). In "Noah," God Himself is the force driving the hero (Russell Crowe) to build an enormous ark big enough to hold two members of every species of animal on the planet. Man has grown evil and greedy and lazy and unworthy, and God has decided to reboot, leaving only Noah and his family as survivors. When the...