Pat’s Point of View

Evidently the local cinema in The Entrance (a small town north of Sydney) has banned The Da Vinci Code movie. I’m sure Sony are destitute in their disappointment.

I’m Catholic too but I think the cinema owner’s attitude is wrong. It’s not going to do anything but make people more curious. Did the owners of the cinema watch the film themselves, or read the book? If they did, why not let others watch it and come to their own opinions? If you suddenly lose your faith after hearing about the whole Merovingian bloodline story, then you probably would have abandoned the church anyway. Because at the end of the day the whole thing comes down to who you believe, there’s hardly conclusive proof either way.

But by trying to stamp out questions and challenges, the church and others who take such action, are only reinforcing people’s attitude of suspicion, deceit and conspiracy. I guess it’s going to look bad either way since the story is rather self-fulfilling. If the church denies covering up the ‘true’ role of Mary Magdalene for millennia then they just prove the conspiracy theory. If they were admit it then they’re bad—it’s a lose-lose situation. It’s so ‘Area 51′.

At the very least, think of the money they’ll lose by not screening a major new release—especially such a controversial one.

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