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Da Vinci Code

Saw the Da Vinci Code yesterday... Frankly I don’t see why the movie was banned! Meaningless appeasement to assumed minority sentiments on the part of the politicians and a section of over-zealous religious bigots managed such a ban, I am sure. If anything the movie can only enhance the faith in Jesus. First the movie - I had read the book and was in a sense ready to check out the movie, I wasn't disappointed, the movie neither exaggerated nor dramatized any section of the book in the process of movie making. That was very good. A movie which has such a large section of history packed as part of the story line was rather presented innovatively, I personally liked the piece where the two central characters are entering a Cathedral and in which as the Professor narrates history, the history is played before them while they continue to walk into the cathedral as though in a virtual world. If only we had large sections of untold history spun into such stories and narrated in such innov