Monday, May 29, 2006

The DaVinci Code

i went to see the movie today with a couple of girls from church...

my dad was meant to borrow the book from the library for me but cos there was such a long reservation list, he ended up getting the audio tapes instead. so i'd listened to the book read on audio tapes... so thought it would be interesting to see what kind of movie they make of it.

actually i didnt really like the movie... it was actually quite disjointed and i kinda wondered if somebody who had not read the book would follow it ok.
i'm thankful that a lot of the sexual references in the book were left out. and the storyline seemed different somehow... i spose for a 2 1/2 hr film you have to leave bits out.

the movie was quite believable tho... which i guess makes me wonder who will take it seriously. basically the book claims that Jesus was married to mary magdeline and they had a child... the holy grail is the documents that relate to the bloodline of Jesus. it also questions the authenticity and origin of the canon.

while i can see how the catholic church might be offended and the story might make people question christianity, i guess i pray that it might create opportunities to talk to people about the gospel. i think the movie challenged me to read more apologetics so that i might be able to have conversations with people who are interested...

as a post script... carolyn is such a cack... we were talking after the movie... and she was referring to leonardo da vinci as leonardo di caprio....
no carolyn... leonardo di caprio isnt a dead painter!

1 comment:

yestruthbetold said...

really??? hahhahahahahahahh thats hirlarious!!!!

yeh i agree, i personally dun think the right way to go about the movie is to ban seeing it because of the dodgy claims as they suggest.. but to prepare and read up on all the facts before seeing it with ur non christian friends so that u would would know how to answer them...

having said that.. i was perhaps too insistant on the 'seeing it with non christian friends' part.. so much so that i havnt seen it yet..hmmmmmmmm... may have to rethink that