Headscratchers / El Arca

• Why did the unicorn, dragon and Sasquatch, upon realizing that the Genesis flood was real, not think on flying to the Ark? They still had time to do so before the water increased, and for the Dope Slap the Sasquatch gave to the unicorn, it's evident that at least the Sasquatch and the dragon had realized that they were going to die...
  • Perhaps they refused to do so for the humiliation they would endure upon arriving on the Ark? They were the only three who believed that Noah's message was a ruse, so it's likely that they were going to be severely mocked for not believing it. Possibly they wanted to accept their death for refusing Noah's offer.
  • Let's remember that only the dragon and the unicorn can fly. The Sasquatch can't. Fine, the dragon could carry him all the way to the Ark, but perhaps the Sasquatch's weight was too much for him. As the three were friends, it's plausible to think that the unicorn and the dragon didn't want to leave their friend behind to die alone, so they opted to remain friends to the end.
  • There's also the fact they were shown without a partner, so even if they did get on board, their partners wouldn't because they didn't bother to get them just in case and the water level was too high for them to have conceivably survived ^note unless the flight argument mentioned above applies to them as well, and they'd be the last of their kind before their own natural death, which would therefore be their species' extinction... Morton's Fork indeed. With that in mind, the idea that they were accepting their death makes more sense.
  • There is a song about how the unicorn went to play in the rain rather than board the Ark. Might be a subtle shout out to it.
• How is possible for Pity the Parrot make a joke about Aesop and Jean de La Fontaine if those two fabulists weren't even born by the time of the Old Testament took place?
  • Well, if we are going to ask ourselves about this issue, then we will have to ask ourselves how Farfan gives Noah some dollars and how Bombay asks his mate if she has a newspaper to defecate...
• Where is Panthy's partner? According to Noah's message, the Ark needed one male and one female from every species to repopulate once the Genesis flood ended. However, while we see couples of animales everywhere on the Ark, Panthy seems to be the sole panther there and we never see a male panther?
  • Considering Panthy's love for meat, maybe she devoured her partner? Who says that her immense appetite would restrict her from cannibalism?
    • Unlikely, because that would mean that panthers will go extinct after the Genesis flood as Panthy would have no partner with whom she could mate. We can just assume that Panthy did have a partner but we never saw him onscreen.
  • Perhaps the male panther was in a relationship with the tigress aboard the Ark? While Dagnino was seen alongside a tigress whom he could mate to repopulate his species, it seems that he's in a relationship with Panthy. So perhaps Panthy's and Dagnino's partners quickly bonded to get back at their respective mates?
  • There are other animals seen without partners including Pepe the Dove, Pity the Parrot, Alvaro the Pig, Coco the Crocodile, Cachito the Puma, Patricio the Vulture, Wolfgang the Wolf, an eagle, Donkey and Mole, would they mean that their respective species go extinct as well?
• I have always asked myself this one since I was a kid. After Noah, Farfan and Esther survive their fall into the Ark's bowels and Farfan makes clear their intentions to take over the Ark before Esther knocks out Noah with a stick, they proceed to leave the room by climbing on some stairs. But why Farfan kicks the stairs back to Noah if they clearly would not want him to follow them so he can't alert his family about their presence on the Ark? It would have much more sense if Farfan removed the stairs so he couldn't follow them...
  • Maybe Farfan and Esther thought that they had killed Noah with the blow they gave him with the stick? Noah is a much older man than them. Even if the blow didn't kill him immediately, perhaps he could have died later from a concussion.
    • Honestly, Noah is depicted surviving worst things throughout the film. He not only survives being stepped on the head by an elephant at the film's beginning, but he also survives his fall into the Ark's bowels, which was quite high.
  • Taking into account that Farfan is too arrogant, perhaps more than Esther, it's possible that he didn't see Noah as a threat to their plans (likely dismissing him due his age) and just kicked the stairs out of spite. He may have thought that by the time Noah recovered consciousness and/or put the stairs back in place, they would have already taken over the Ark.
• At the film's climax, Farfan and Esther resolve to leave the Ark so they can restart their business in the Arctic. Are they even aware that all people in the world, minus them and Noah and his family, are all dead and that they don't have any materials to set up a market nor products to sell? And even if they find some materials and products aboard the Ark, there's no people they can sell them?