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# The Review I've Been Waiting For
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/4586/
- Published: 2006-05-21T10:33:38.000Z
- Updated: 2006-05-21T10:33:38.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Entertainment, #wpChunk

[Always reliable Decent Films Dot Com posted its reveiw of TDVC yesterday](http://decentfilms.com/sections/reviews/davincicode.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> In terms of early Christian history, \[*TDVC's* version\] is not uncomparable to Holocaust denial, to claiming that it was really the Jews who were oppressing the Nazis (or, at least, “we can't be sure” who was persecuting whom). Yet the meme that “it's only a movie” or “it's just fiction” has largely obscured the fact that the conspiracy-theory conceits of *The Da Vinci Code* are by and large not novelist Dan Brown's own flights of fancy, but are based on a lunatic-fringe view of history set forth in “non-fiction” books like *Holy Blood, Holy Grail* and *The Templar Revelation*.

> While these books have about as much credibility as the likes of *Did Six Million Really Die?* or *The Hoax of the Twentieth Century*, which is to say zero, many people who would find the raving anti-Semitism of the latter an insuperable obstacle in a thriller seem willing to overlook the raving anti-Catholicism of the former in *The Da Vinci Code*.

> Imagine a popular thriller based on the version of history set forth in *The Protocols of the Elders of Zion*, with a secret cabal of Jewish leaders conspiring to destroy Christianity and establish a global government to rule the world. . .

> A few years ago, the release of *The Passion of the Christ* generated much discussion and concern regarding the question of possible anti-Semitism in the film. Yet, perhaps strangely, while critical reception of *The Da Vinci Code* has so far not been kind, most reviews seem to be sticking to safe, uncontroversial charges that the film is “boring” and “talky,” while avoiding the more pressing question of anti-Catholicism.

The review is excellent: uncompromising and smart, though it's not really a review. It's more of an essay. It concludes with this ancedote:

> Catholic writer Mark Shea tells an anecdote about a college bull session among students at Central Washington University over *The Da Vinci Code*. “Even if it's just fiction,” a student opined, “it's still interesting to think about.”

> To which another student replied: “Your mother's a whore.” And then, to the first student's stunned incredulity, he added, “And even if that's just fiction, it's still interesting to think about.”

[Amy Welborn has also weighed in](http://amywelborn.typepad.com/openbook/2006/05/dvc%5Fthe%5Freview.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Her best line, also dealing with the movie's version of early Christian history:

> This is more than just silly movie-making. It's a serious lie, akin to maintaining that Africans strolled on to slave ships because they wanted to go west.