Debug And Fix You

Audrey Tautou and Tom Hanks star in the film version of “The Da Vinci Code”

Good question, isn’t it? My Indian friends may take this as an opportunity to bash me when they hear what I have to say. I’m an Evangelical Christian, not a Catholic – what else would make them angrier since I’m not part of a protest against the movie. I have good Catholic friends, but their view of protesting or banning the movie ‘Da Vinci Code’ do not stir well in my mind.

A book sold at Padmasri MA Thomas’ Emmanuel Mission created much hatred from Hindus in general in India. A lot of negative depictions of Hindu Gods in the book affected MA Thomas’s work – his son was arrested, and Mr.Thomas had to go into hiding. Are Hindus tolerant? They may be not. The Muslims were neither tolerant – the book ‘Satanic Verses’ caused a lot of hatred. People died in riots after some cartoons of Muhammad appeared in a Danish news papers, and the people took the hatred to the streets.

Are Catholics of India intolerant to a movie like ‘Da Vinci Code?’? They are – that is my opinion. They can’t tolerate the blasphemy against Jesus. I would say that is a good stance, but have we not blasphemed against Jesus at all? The Catholic priests are running TV channels in Kerala. What if these priests could not broadcast half nude movie dance on their channel, would the rating go low? The abuse against minors, innocents dying in retreat centers – are they not blasphemies against Jesus? May not be directly, but they are. Joseph Dias, the president of the Catholic Secular Forum should find some time to analyze the blasphemies against Jesus in our own churches.

Hey friends, the movie ‘Da Vinci Code’ is a not threat against your Christian belief. The regular movie goers or the ones who have interest to see this movie had already made up their mind to challenge your Christian belief – they know Jesus is not the savior of their soul, and your interest to convert their religion.

We have seen enough TV Evangelists, and their copy cats. We have seen enough theologians, and their interpretations of who Jesus was. Haven’t we followed their teachings, deviating from what Bible teaches? Haven’t we seen enough splits in our churches – churches stealing sheep from other churches? Have we ever protested against blasphemies in our own churches? Probably not, in that respect finding a true protest against this movie without a little hypocrisy is difficult.

I will see this movie. This is not to make Dan Brown or Sony Pictures rich – I know if I don’t buy tickets or some minorities do, it won’t impact the producers economically. It is neither to support Dan Brown’s view of questioning Jesus divinity. I would watch it to make my faith stronger.

Would you like be part of a cultural conversation – a time to analyze what you believe in, to start a conversation of who Jesus was, why was he crucified, and tell others Jesus is more personal to you than any great man’s teaching? To me, being a Christian without complete conviction is not a Christian at all. I did not become a Christian simply because I was born in such a family.

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” Romans 8:35

Deja Vu
(Cast: Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer, James Caviezel)

I’ll never rush to a theatre except when Denzil Washington’s movies come out – though not all his movies. Denzil Washington is a good fit as a detective, and I love his cool act in a quirk-filled, paranoid, blood-and-sweat thriller. I saw the movie Déjà vu today, and it met all my expectations, and more than that. What a movie! Is it a Sci-Fi thriller?

Before you see this movie, you should probably understand what Déjà vu means. Déjà vu means ‘the experience of thinking that a new situation had occurred before’. Will you call it supernatural? May be, at least someone can explain such an experience as supernatural. Have you ever said or experienced, ‘Oh! It happened exactly as I saw in my dream.’? That’s the closest analogy I can get to the sign of Déjà vu.

The detective agents are smart guys. Putting the entire puzzle together to find a suspect is not an easy job. These detectives face challenges too when they can’t put all the puzzles together. They call pathological experts, and in some cases psychics to prove cases. In all these, you can never communicate with the suspects to find evidence unless he is available to your discourse. That’s where this movie Déjà vu is different. How cool is it if you can reenact the scene again, be part of the crime, to prove the crime?

Denzel Washington acts as an Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent in the movie Déjà vu. His character Doug Carlin is asked to collect evidence to find the predator of a bomb blast at a New Orleans Ferry – the blast killed hundreds of men, women and children. Doug goes to every nook and corner of the scene, and wades through the bit and pieces, and he concludes what happened at the Ferry is an arsenic. He comes across the body of a woman who was washed up on the banks, but died before the Ferry explosion. Doug’s attention turns towards this woman – if he can find her murderer, he can find the source of the explosion. He starts science’s greatest journey when he is introduced a time travel.

The twist to this movie is when the second chapter of the movie opens up. I don’t want to reveal where it is or when it starts. Did Doug fell in love with a dead woman or a woman is alive, the rest is the story?

This movie was shot at New Orleans, after the Katrina hurricane, and is dedicated to the spirit of people who live there. Dr.Brian Greene, the expert on string theory and a professor of physics at Columbia University contributed to this movie.

Ask a question yourself ‘Do I ever see something new happened in the past at the current time?’ Look at a mirror few feats away; you are looking at a picture that generated more than 18 nanoseconds ago. The light to travel from the lenses of your eye to the mirror and back, and few nanoseconds to process the image in your brain adds up to 18 nanoseconds.