I did notice the Noah play when I first watched the film, but I now see more evidence of religious themes and allusions. Susie was always the one who seemed to be most troubled, but in actuality, she knew herself better than anyone. Sam being the dove that is called forth by the raven is almost the opposite of what one would expect. Susie is more often the one that "goes berserk". Yet, she also has the great skill of honing her gaze to see what others don't thanks to her binoculars. After last class's discussion about Noah's ark, I went back to look at other scenes that confused me. I wanted to find out why the Native Americans were given so much emphasis too.
The scene when Susie gets crazy with the scissors seemed very odd to me. The band of boys (reminiscent of Tom Sawyer's gang) had recently been given new order to bring Sam back to civilization. But oddly enough, Anderson chose to show the quick flash of conflict by "electrifying" the scissors in a flash (resembling something/someone being struck by lightning) and then showing the flying arrow that came from one of the supposedly more-refined, dubbed law enforcers. The left-handed scissors, the more precise and refined weapon, was used by the supposedly barbaric and reckless escapees. The newly-ordained leader of the pack said that Sam "did not have the authority" to take himself out of the troop. But the boy militia was forced to flee from the forest, to return back to their "home turf", maybe like the white settlers of the Native Americans?
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