Though this animation may not look too favorably on capitalism (or is it a commentary on war and religion?), it’s quite interesting — just black silhouttes against a mostly orange backdrop.

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Of course, capitalism may not be the best thing ever (I do generally prefer sliced bread), but I haven’t yet seen better. Maybe that’s unrelated though; maybe the film is about how people hurt other people and break the other people’s things and get rich off of doing all that and then have “bad things” happen, which look a lot like revenge, and then everybody dies.

It sounds nicer to think that it’s just an interesting animation.

The Detroit News (of all things) has provided this concise commentary on Dan Brown’s supposed fiction-writing-rule-breaking with da Da Vinci Code novel. Apparently there are explicit, mostly-unwritten rules about fiction writing, but, that irony aside, check out http://del.icio.us/schellack/DaVinciCode for the link to the article. I appreciate the conciseness, and if you have not yet heard that Mr. Brown’s book may in fact lack historical veracity,then you should read this.

[added 5.19.06, 11:51] So the movie comes out/came out today and isn’t receiving very good reviews: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/da_vinci_code/