Za DaVinchi Codo （ザ・ダヴィンチ・コード）
Yesterday we went to see The daVinci Code (it was in English, but with Japanese subtitles) which was not even close to as good as I thought it would be. I mean aside from all the controversy regarding what it portrays.
The movie itself wasn’t great, the acting by Tom Hanks was one of the poorer roles I had seen him in and the scripting brought back memories of feature length murder mystery shows on television.
Regarding the controversial subject matter it doesn’t really make much sense.
Why would people worship the wife of some guy who preached love?
Wouldn’t the bloodline be so watered down as to not really matter, particularly if Jesus was just a plain old carpenter’s son with no more claim to any kingdom than anyone else who could trace back to David?
And most confusingly of all, why aren’t Jesus’ and Mary’s descendants Jewish, and why aren’t the people who believe Jesus’ teachings and give so much to rpeserve his bloodline because of it following his teachings and continuing to follow the Jewish practices that atone for sin (afterall Jesus wouldn’t have atoned for sin right?)
Like I said it doesn’t make any real sense and, to my mind, doesn’t really warrant being termed controversial other than making a few outrageous claims to get big numbers reading and watching it…
May 24th, 2006 at 10:26 pm
I agree, the movie wasn’t great, certainly not in comparison to the book. Alastair is devoting a whole evening to it this Sunday, so it will be interesting to hear what he has to say about it.
The best thing about it, is that it poses questions about Jesus and Christianity in general and we can take advantage of that to tell people the truth.
Hope all is going well with you.
J