You are correct. However, so was National Treasure (with Nicholas Cage). I can't say I went out and researched a lot of the background facts they put in that movie, but the ones that made sense, I believed to be true. I believe the Silence Dogood letters exist, even though I had never heard of them before seeing the movie.
Couldn't some folks go into the DaVinci Code and come out with the same new-found knowledge?
Not to mention those who despise Christianity and organized religion - who will use 'facts' gleaned from this movie just as liberals did with "Farenheit 9/11", to attack and to hate.
Not that I'm a big moviegoer. The only movie I've gone to in the past 3 years was Ice Age 2. And the next one will be Pixar's Cars. (Unless they screen that Andy Garcia anti-Castro flick out here in the midwest. I want to see that.) My 4-year-old isn't a big Tom Hanks fan, anyway. :) (well, except for Sheriff Woody from Toy Story)
I know it's fiction, but I'm not discounting Code as a tool for those who revile my faith and morality to spew mistruths against me.
I got it second hand from a friend who attended that Mass, and she said the Monsignor had no problem with the movie. He said it was fiction, and the guy who wrote the book and all the others involved were just making a living like the rest of us.
The good Monsignor told his parishioners if they wanted to see it, to go ahead and be entertained.
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