Thursday, April 2, 2009

Twilight Review: Typical or Brilliant?


The time of day immediately following the sunset, when skin turns to crystals, and all immortal beings must bring their days to an end, twilight. The definition gives a preview to this awaited vampire movie written by director Catherine Hardwicke. In conclusion, a gloomy, unfit girl Bella played Kristen Stewart is protected from evil by the hearth robbing, yet mysterious vampire Edward played by Robert Pattinson. Peter Bradshaw says, "Twilight is mad, bad and deeply unwholesome to know, and perhaps, in its serious way, the most entertaining teen film since 10 Things I Hate About You. It is certainly a new twist on the time-honoured nice-girl-bad-boy storyline." A movie released in 2008 directed at the audience of teenagers, is not so young at heart while at the same time promoting the ever ending movie trend of the power of men. In general the story plot is simple: Young girl is forced to move to a new town, young girl meets mysterious vampire. Girl falls in love with crazed vampire, who shows no interest in here other than the fact that he cannot resist her smell....of blood that is, and finally girl wants to become vampire solely to please her man. Typical? Not really, realistic? According to most other movies, yes. Entertainment Weekly says, "For girls, the intense, ego-stroking appeal of Meyer's novel was the way that Bella becomes this undead Byronic stud's soul mate without quite knowing why she's worthy." Through out the movie, Edward treats Bella with no respect, yet she longs to be with him allow for the longest time not knowing why. Numerously, Edward opts to leave the girl, but she does not allow this. This says a lot about her character, demonstrating a girl who is desperate and longs for the love of someone whose only interest is the hunger for her blood.
The movie is well-written and nontraditional, allow does not teach good morals especially for teenage girls. The red lips, pale skin, and high cheek bones of Robert Pattinson could reel any human girl in, but the desperateness and unworthiness consumed by Bella is pitiful. As a love story, the spark and chemistry of the two lovers is only in the hands of Bella. Jake Wilson says, "In a film of this kind a great deal depends on the chemistry between the lead actors, and here Twilight falls especially short."
"Dumbest vampire movie ever," said Rob Grimm, however, not quite. The movie was well directed and actors well picked. Grimm explains the movie lacks reality, "Why make a vampire movie when you can't see any real vampire action?" Why? Because the movie is directed toward young adults and because this movie throws a twist on vampires. An animal blood sucking vampire, not human. Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp suck blood, Robert Pattinson longs for only one humans blood, Bella, which brings a whole new perspective to vampire movies.
In conclusion, this is a movie that "sucks" any audience into it. Allow it is far fetched and not your typical love story, the mystery and twists is sensational.

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