Da Vinci Code
D and I saw the Da Vinci Code today. It was excellent. Just the right combination of action, drama, mystery, even a little romance and a smidgen of comedy in a few places.
There wasn’t anything insulting or anti-religious in the movie. A lot of it is history we already knew long before the book came out. Some of it is based on myths some of us had already heard. In fact, I’m almost convinced that there is an old movie that pretty much has the exact same storyline. I seem to remember that entire opening scene from another movie. Just can’t recall the name of it. Maybe it was that William Defoe movie I was talking about earlier.
The whole idea of Jesus being married to Mary Magdalene, and them having a child, and there being a secret society organized to protect the decedents of Christ isn’t any more unreasonable than a teenage virgin being impregnated by the Holy Spirit. After all if you can accept that as a fact you’re probably more open minded than you care to admit.
Everyone knows that History is often distorted and that myths are often based on some fragment of reality.
Myth, make believe, fiction, fantasy, or reality? It’s all irrelevant. Like Tom Hanks says in the movie, “It’s about what you choose to believe.” As long as we have the choice to draw our own conclusions and make our own decisions, bring on the debates and the debatable theories.
I love a good debate. Even when I lose.
