the davinci code....

ok, so we went to see the film this evening.....a lot of people we knew were there......including several from our church.......the reviews i have read were mixed.....with one critic noting that the crowd said nothing when it was over.....no applause....and this void was seen as proof that the film was a failure.......having seen the film i disagree with this line of reasoning....there was no applause because the end of one of reverence......and silence and quite contemplation was the only response......ron howard's film was nearly faithful to the book.......he took liscense with the last 15 minutes or so....but the details that he added enhance rather than detracted from the basic premise......it is a film i would see again....it was lovingly filmed and far from profane.....god and jesus take no hits....only those humans who do evil things in the names of god and/or jesus take the brunt.......and great care was taken to keep central themes.....on message....about the loss of the sacred feminine witht he rise of the church as empowered by peter....and the notion that mary magdelene as jesus wife.....what is so wrong about a great man being a husband and father?........and it is a premise that i believe more rather than less possible having seen the movie.......another critic commented that the book had been so much better than the movie.......i cannot go that far......reading the book took away most of the surprise, obviously........the plot was so driven as to keep me up most of the night to finish......i am not sure that any film could mimic that sort of reading experience......but this film did a credible job of putting faces to the Dan Brown's characters.......i may go see it again.....just to do my part at a respectable box office......wouldn't want the religious right to think that their calls for a boycot were heeded.........