Gave this another spin, better than I remember, but still mostly entertainment and not really a treatise. I think the basic problem is that it seems to start from a Catholic perspective, but then takes all of these weird things and names from other mythologies that have nothing really to do with Catholicism: The voice of God, the agnostic gospels, creatures such as muses, old testament demons, etc.
That is what I had the most trouble the first time I saw it.
Now that I expected them to be there it was more successful with me. One thing I did not remember was that the girl is a relative (of Christ) and that really surprised me, as the the question, why would Dan Brown make such a big deal about all of it when it had already been done in Dogma a decade and a half earlier? That was supposed to be the BIG revelation in Da Vinci Code (2006)!
The movie barely addressees true dogma. Indulgence due to stepping thru a door, might not approximate the truth, but it certainly is as subjective as praying or donating to the Church, thus might be seen as a deserving subject of spoof. The one single issue central to the plot is the issue of the infallibility of the Church. It is hardly dogmatic and the movie fudges a bit in presenting it as such. Where the movie is most successful is on tiny details which are true, but mostly insignificant, for example on the Catholic Church's obsession of blessing everything, including golf clubs.
Still a fun movie, although not really meant to make one think.
That is what I had the most trouble the first time I saw it.
Now that I expected them to be there it was more successful with me. One thing I did not remember was that the girl is a relative (of Christ) and that really surprised me, as the the question, why would Dan Brown make such a big deal about all of it when it had already been done in Dogma a decade and a half earlier? That was supposed to be the BIG revelation in Da Vinci Code (2006)!
The movie barely addressees true dogma. Indulgence due to stepping thru a door, might not approximate the truth, but it certainly is as subjective as praying or donating to the Church, thus might be seen as a deserving subject of spoof. The one single issue central to the plot is the issue of the infallibility of the Church. It is hardly dogmatic and the movie fudges a bit in presenting it as such. Where the movie is most successful is on tiny details which are true, but mostly insignificant, for example on the Catholic Church's obsession of blessing everything, including golf clubs.
Still a fun movie, although not really meant to make one think.
