The Da Vinci Code

Da vinci code is an awesome movie which I came to see only recently. I was desperate to get my hands on DVD but for some strange reason very much like the movie itself I was able to see it only 7 years after its realize. though I knew that it was a kind of Anti Church movie (which was the main reason I wanted to grab the DVD) I dint knew the exact content of the movie until I saw it myself. Dan Brown has proved that he is the master of suspense at least in this present era, my friends told me that the book far better than the movie itself!! but I have no patience to read of fiction so I decided to stick with the movie itself.

The movie was widely criticized by Christians mainly the Catholic part of them. The Vatican condemned the movie and hundreds of Fathers asked their followers to boycott the movie for "Inaccuracies in the movie" but Dan Brown has sticked to his content and in his words he has said

"99 percent of it is true. All of the architecture, the art, the secret rituals, the history, all of that is true, the Gnostic gospels. All of that is … all that is fiction, of course, is that there's a Harvard symbologist named Robert Langdon, and all of his action is fictionalized. But the background is all true."

Now that seems to be a bizarre claim by the author, it shakes the very foundation of Christianity. It show Jesus and Mary as companions in other words husband an wife!!!!!!!!! This particular information is said when the an Old Man, Sir Leigh Teabing a Grail Historian (Ian McKellen) explains a Da Vinci painting of the last supper to sofie (the last heir of Jesus Christ, not relived then) that what people think to be as John is actually Mary!! and this is only the begin of the bashing scenes which is later seen in the movie thorough out. I wonder how a religious Christian Family would have watched the movie in theaters!!

Dan Brown later explains in the movie how Christianity was formed out of pure violence, forcing, killing and destroying people who where not following their faiths and how free thinking women were killed because of their anti church attitude. Though I had some knowledge on how Christianity started to evolve in the beginning the claims which I saw in the movie stunned me but confirmed my sources
It also said that a secret agent formed by the Vatican is on the run to destroy Jesus' heir apparent and they are committed to kill them so brutally that even their DNA doesn't exist. In a particular scene when the movie nearing climax, a Father asked if the killing of the hear isn't a crime for the which the father replies. Jesus sacrificed his life to well being of other humans in earth (not the exact quote) in sense telling that if Jesus had sacrificed his life there is no harm in killing the heir apparent.

As the Vatican tries its best to find the heir there is a parallel society which is committed to save the heir but the highlight of the movie is the heir himself/herself is not aware of the fact that he is part of the Royal Legacy of Jesus Christ. The only thing which is said to be fiction is the part played by Tom Hanks as a symbologist, who finally finds out who the real heir is but since he is not that Genius he finds the help of an old friend Sir Ian McKellen who is a British Grail Historian is too interested into exploring the mysteries. He believes that the secret should be reveled so that the whole world can be freed from the clutches of the Church and their monopoly in the society.

This is one of the best movies you will ever see if you are ardent fan of Thrillers and Suspense but the movie can be equally disturbing if you are a religious Catholic Christian and my deeply cause a wound in your heart as the movie deeply shakes the foundation of Christianity and says that the most famous story ever told is lies!! so decide it yourself as most of them would have watched the movie. I believe in Dan Brown's version on Christianity since there is a high possibility of his "Fiction" to be true. Though I am almost a decade late in writing the review of a movie. I feel the author Dan Brown, Writer for the movie Akiva Goldsman along with Dan Brown, Director: Ron Haward, Actor: Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, Producer Brian Grazer, Ron Howard again and John Calley along with other co actors Ian McKellen, Alfred Molina, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Bettany, Jean Reno and others have done a good and braved the curse of their churches and the people behind the scens ofcourse without them nothing would be been completed.

Full marks to the crew for making the most controversial movies of our time and thank Ron Haward especially for directing this wonder! it may be taken to market on the controversies but still worth applauding