The Da Vinci Code
Took out a few hours this morning to go see The DaVinci Code. I’ve not the read the book and i’ve not really been too bothered by all of the hype that’s followed it so I was just going to waste a bit of time and with no expectations either way.
As films go it was the usual for any Tom Hanks film, an easy going time-filler. The plot was interesting taken as seen (don’t know if it’s different from the book) and I enjoyed it as a thriller cum very thin puzzler, it was obvious from the outset who she was, and the puzzles weren’t exactly the Times crossword, or even sudoku for that matter.
(Be warned below, I’m no theologian)
As regards Brown’s book plot I just can’t really see what would be so devastating if there was a ‘bloodline’. Would it make that much of a difference? It’s not so implausable, for instance I’m here writing this post so I must have a bloodline that goes back to the dawn of mankind or I wouldn’t be here. So why is it so crazy to think that a bloke had kids 2000 or so years ago? As an atheist I don’t believe in a God or Jesus as some kind of spiritual being, although I have no gripe in believing that a bloke called Jesus was around 2000 years ago and was keen to instil a sense of love and understanding in his fellow man, maybe in the same sense as Mother Theresa did in modern times (I’m sure there are better examples).
If there was/is a bloodline, would it really be so damaging to the church? Is it more about Jesus being mystical/divine that is important or is it the values he puts forward that are important? Shouldn’t having a family be an important value to put across? especially in today’s modern divorce culture? I would say a bloodline might be a good point. It doesn’t really make that much of a difference to me, religion is just something that isn’t for me.
All said, a decent enough 2 hours, could have been worse…
…and that concludes my review for Film 2006. 
May 31st, 2006 at 2:11 pm
I haven’t seen it yet. I bought the book at an airport and read it on the flight. I wouldn’t nominate it for the Nobel prize for literature (obviously I was asked) but I thought it was quite an enjoyable read. I don’t know whether the reviewers (of the book) are being hard on it for religious reasons or just being snobby cos he’s sold so many copies of an inferior book. Anyway…
I would guess, with no opinion poll evidence whatsoever to back me up, that most people in the UK believe that Jesus was a flesh and blood man. This is not what any Christian Church believes though - they all believe that Jesus is God and the Son of God, and any other position has been heresy since the Council of Nicea. So to accept that now would be to do a U-turn on over 1500 years of teaching. The problem for them is not really the Da Vinci Code - people only believe Dan Brown’s theory because deep down they never believed in the Nicene Creed anyway.