The Da Vinci Code

I think the biggest problem that the movie of The Da Vinci Code is facing is that too many people have read the book. This must be a fantastically exciting film for the three or four people who do not already know the outcome. For the rest of us it can be no more than a very good visualisation of a route that we have already travelled. It is very well made and well acted. It is true to the book in almost every detail. As for the so called controversy surrounding the content and the hand-wringing going on in some religious circles, can I just say: please grow up. This is a work of fiction. It has never pretended to be anything else. The fact that it makes reference to events that actually occurred and locations and things that actually exist make it no less a work of fiction. It is in fact no more than a sophisticated version of those childrens’ stories that end with a reference to something in real life: “….and so to this day all water buck have a white ring around their bottoms.” Making reference to an undeniable fact does not make the story that the original water buck sat in a pot of white paint true.