Matthew's Journal

On a whim, I went to see Angels and Demons this afternoon. Like you'd expect from Dan Brown, the plot is a bit thin in places (and has a heck of a lot of the lead character appearing breathlessly, pointing at a statue, and running off again), and science theology and history are all played fast and loose with. What made the film for me, though, was the mise-en-scène. Whist much of the Rome and Vatican that you see is in fact a mock-up in America, it looks very good, and I appreciated the fact that some of the clerics had more than 1 dimension to their characters.

Good fun, although I did twitch every time they used "preferiti" to describe the papabile cardinals. That just means I need to get out more ;-) I didn't spot at least one of the plots twists, either.