Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen and Jean Reno
I think the craze of the screening of the movie Da Vinci Code swept around the globe right from Paris to Singapore. Checked Golden Village and CineLeisure websites and found that most of the shows are fully booked. So I forced myself to travel 40 minutes to Chua Chu Kang Lot 1 to watch the movie. Golly, the theatre is like one quarter full 
Yippe!
Shall not brag more about the experience. Since this movie is also greatly disputed by the Christians and the members of Opus Dei, I shall not release the movie spoiler because I tend to say the wrong things at the wrong time. I also heard many religious leaders advising people to boycott the film.
Okay, wadever. Anyway, I will be presenting both sides of my opinion - from the factual point of view and the fictional one.
Factual point of view - Dan Brown has integrated fact and fiction so well that everyone will come out from the theatre totally CONFUSED, and don’t know which is true and false. Being a non-Christian, I do not know that is the Holy Grail, the Rose Line and Mary Magdalene. So confusing! So I somehow forced myself to visit Wikipedia for further clarification so that I can distinguish between the real stuff, and the fake stuff (and the disputes, duh!). And the movie put Opus Dei in bad light, so as the Vatican. Geez.
Fictional point of view - the storyline is attractive and exiciting. Solid plot with action-packed scenes like how Audrey drove her car backwards for some 400m in the busy Paris downtown street and left with just a missing side-viewing mirror. Wow. Love how the director brings the audience close to the feeling of cracking the code. What Fibonnaci numbers, Leornado Da Vinci analoged to (O, draconian devil) and The Mona Lisa (Oh, lame saint!). Wonderful.
But I hate the fact that there is this thud thud sound throughout the movie trying to make your heart beat faster. Damn annoying. Action packed with lots of technical terms which I totally don’t understand. Except for Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, everyone seemed to have double personality. They can be good at the previous mintue and suddenly become a pain-in-the-ass in the next. Bad guys can suddenly turn good. Okay, so what I’ve learnt from the movie is, never died for a secret you’re hiding.
Oh, and a movie boofer here - at the last few minutes Tom Hanks accidentally scratched his face while shaving, creating a small bleeding wound. After that he left the hotel and followed the Rose Line, and the scenes that followed show NO SCAR / INJURY on his face. Hmmm, looks like the makeup team is to blame…
A good movie or not? You’ll be the judge…
P.S.: You can know more about the entire confusing thing at Wikipedia (brings you directly to the Da Vinci Wikipage).
and it's raining right now, woohoo! I wish I could run in the rain! 
wow! 
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May 22nd, 2006 at 12:24 am
Hello Teddy and all,
Here is the key to understanding what the Vatican/Papacy truly fears…
Pay close attention, profundity knocks at the door, listen for the key. Be Aware! Scoffing leads to blindness…
There’s a bit more to the story of the Vatican’s reaction than most are yet aware of. Read my missive below to understand what they truly fear. It’s not the DaVinci Code or Gospel of Judas per se, but the fact that people have been motivated to seek out the unequivocal truth about an age of deception, exactly when they expect me to appear. The Gospel of Judas and DaVinci Code controversies are allowing people to take new stock of the Vatican/Papacy and the religions Rome spawned.
Remember, “I come as a thief…” ?
Yes, the DaVinci Code novel is better than the movie. Both are no more accurate as a literal version of history than is the New Testament. In other words, none of them is the literal truth, which is a key fact of the story and ancient history. The primary sub-plot is about purposeful symbology being used to encode hidden meanings, exactly like the Bible and related texts. Arguing about whether the DaVinci Code, Gospel of Judas, or the Bible are accurate history is a Machiavellian red herring designed to hide the truth by misdirecting your inquiry away from the heart of the matter.
Want to truly understand why we can’t let the Vatican succeed at telling us what to think about ancient history? There is a foolproof way to verify the truth and expose centuries-old religious deceptions. It is also the common thread connecting why the ancient Hebrews, Yahad/Essene, Jews, Gnostics, Cathars, Templars, Dead Sea Scrolls, DaVinci Code, and others have all been targets of Rome’s ire and evil machinations. What the Vatican and its secret society cohorts don’t want you to understand is that the ancient Hebrew symbology in all of these texts purposely encodes and exposes the truth about them. Furthermore, the structure of ancient symbology verifiably encodes the rules to decode messages built with it. This is what they most fear you will discover.
If the Bible represented the literal truth or even accurate history, there would be no need for faith in the assertions of deceptive and duplicitous clergy and their ilk. Wisdom and faith are opposing concepts, because wisdom requires the unequivocal truth where faith obfuscates and opposes it. Religion is therefore the enemy of truth and wisdom.
It is undeniable the New Testament is framed by ancient Hebrew symbolism and allegory. The same is evidenced in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Gnostic texts, biblical apocrypha, DaVinci Code, and other related texts. All ancient religious, mystical, and wisdom texts have been shrouded in mystery for millennia for one primary reason: The ability to understand their widely evidenced symbology was lost in antiquity. How do we finally solve these ages-old mysteries? To recast an often-used political adage: It’s [the] symbology, stupid!
It is amazing the Vatican still tries to insist the Gospels are literal truth. It is beyond obvious they are replete with ancient Hebrew symbology. Every miracle purported for Jesus has multiple direct symbolic parallels in the Old Testament, Apocalypse, Dead Sea Scrolls, and other symbolic narratives and traditions. This is the secret held by the ancient Gnostics, Templars, and Cathars, which is presented with dramatic effect in the DaVinci Code. None of these narratives or stories were ever intended as the literal truth. That is a key fact to unraveling ages-old mysteries.
Likewise, the following Washington Post article (The Book of Bart) describes how many changes and embellishments were made to New Testament texts over the centuries, unequivocally demonstrating they are not original, infallible, or truthful.
It’s no wonder the Vatican fears the truth more than anything else. Seek to understand the symbolic significance of my name (Seven Star Hand) and you will have proof beyond disproof that Jews, Christians, and Muslims have long been duped by the great deceivers I warned humanity about over the millennia. What then is the purpose of “faith” but to keep good people from seeking to understand truth and wisdom?
Now comes justice, hot on its heels… (symbolism…)
Not only do I talk the talk, I walk the walk…
Here is Wisdom!!
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