The Da Vinci Code

The Da Vinci Code is a film about individual spirituality. A major theme in the film is the power of knowledge in creating faith. For example, while the quest throughout the movie is to find evidence that Jesus was just a man and perhaps not as godly as history would have the world believe, the final answer of Magdalene’s existing bloodline does not truly destroy the Catholic Church because it does not exclude the possibility that he was perhaps both. This is what Robert Langdon means when he tells Sophie that maybe she should just keep her secret a secret and let the world have their faith. Langdon is a symbologist and understands that societies create belief systems under very weak foundations and assumptions. While the masses need to be fed the “truth,” intellectuals will understand that even if Christ had a bloodline, it does not exclude the possibility that he was the son of God. Ousting this secret would only cause havoc amongst society by those who are too narrow-minded to believe that Jesus was either man or holy but impossibly both. Therefore, both religious traditions in this movie, the Catholic Church and the Sacred Feminist Priory of Scion - may have aspects of the truth in them. Throughout the film, we see all kinds of characters make the choice as to what kind of faith they want to have. In the case of the Opus Dei police man Fache, he adopted the urgency provided by his Bishop to stop Langdon without using his skills as a detective to truly analyze why he was doing so. He finally stops blindly believing that what his church tells him is absolute when he realizes that Bishop Aringarosa lied to him and continues to see that the true criminal was Leigh; something even Aringarosa could not do because of his inability to see past his emotions. Leigh is a character of blind faith on the “liberal” end of the spectrum, as he believes that ousting the Holy Grail will finally reveal the truth about Jesus and lead us to the true Sacred Feminine faith. While he