Who was Jesus, really?
The Da Vinci Code, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tautou, is a fascinating intellectual thriller. Based on the beststelling novel of the same name by Dan Brown, the story is part action, part mystery. Robert Langdon (Hanks), a professor who is in Paris for a conference, becomes swept up in a murder, religious intrigue, and a hunt for clues in the Louvre, the famous Paris museum. As he and Sophie Neveu (Tautou) escape from the Louvre and follow more clues, they meet Sir Leigh Teabing (Ian McKellen) who tells them they’re on the trail of one of the most ancient coverups ever perpetrated by the Church: the true nature of Jesus and the Holy Grail. According to Teabing, the Grail secret is that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and still has royal descendants today. And, Teabing says, the Church has been wrong all along about who Jesus really was. Jesus’ marriage shows that he was a mere human being after all. No one believed Jesus was divine, Teabing says, until
