I managed to catch 'The Da Vinci Code', on the day it was opened in theatres, 18th May. Albeit having not read any of Dan Brown's novels, the movie plot has indeed ensnared my senses and imagination; it was a masterpiece.
Aside the main events, Silas, the albino monk, caught my attention. He is the "bad guy"(as we like to label), engages in self-injury and has psychotic tendencies. Wouldn't that not be attention-gaining, you ask. No doubt, it would be, but that is not the issue.
Silas gained my attention because he was a boy, who never received parental love that he so desire and required; he was abused, hated and taunted for his condition; he was made use of, deceived cruelly by people whom he thought as a substitute for receiving parental love. Despite that, we know, he had hope that one day he will be loved. This came in the form of the Bishop who used him, however well-intentioned towards Silas it was.
Alas, his end came, he was shot, still misunderstood, unloved, having inner scars of abuse that did not heal. That scene had almost made me tear; Silas was never liberated alive from his painful existance. On the contrary, death had liberated his soul.
Yea, my mind had worked on all that unconciously while the plot unfolded. It does not accept that evil is just evil...
