Sunday, Mar 22, 2009

Monday’s Movie: Twilight

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I invite everybody to participate in the weekly MEME and write about any movies, television or big screen, that you’ve seen over the past week and write about it.  Please feel free to use the above logo photo in your post and/or link back to the site.  I will post every Sunday Night or Monday Morning on the movie I’ve seen from the past week.  I’m hoping that there are other movie buffs out there who will enjoy the MEME as much as I’m hoping to!  The only small request that I have is that you rate the movie out of 5 bags of popcorn (so, 1 bag out of 5, 2 bags out of 5, and so on). 

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This Week It’s My Daughters’ Choice…

My twins have each read the book series at least a couple of times a piece.  I haven’t read the books, although many of my friends have.  I’m just not a big vampire fan and I think that’s most likely why.  My daughter begged, begged, begged… oh, and did chores in order for me to order Twilight for her.  And, I did.  And, we watched it.  She swears that this is “the best movie ever made.”  Uh, no!  That’d be Gone With The Wind.  So, since I watched it, I might as well make it my Monday’s Movie Review.

Movie:     Twilight

Directed By:     Catherine Hardwicke

Runtime:     122 Minutes

Bella commences high school and meets a host of new friends.  Quickly, she notices a group of “outsiders” that do not interwine, socially with the rest of the student body.  They are eerily attractive and quiet and keep to themselves.  Of the five of them, there are two couples and one single, Edward.  Bella and Edward find an immediate intrigue with one another and find themselves table mates in Biology Lab.  Edward is so apparently put-off by Bella that he skips school for some time to avoid her.   But, eventually he returns, saves her life, and they begin to fall in love.

In the meantime, there are mysterious murders happening nearby the town that seem to be due to some type of strange animal attacks.  What they are, in truth, are vampire attacks.  But these cannot be attributed to Edward’s family as they are self-proclaimed “vegetarians.”  Unlike Bella, who is a true vegetarian, their definition of vegetarian means not eating humans/drinking human blood… no, only that of animals (imagine a deer being hunted in the forest). 

So, what the viewer discovers is that Edward’s family strives hard to find some type of place in society and not to injure humans.  It is almost as if they are in denial as to who/what they are and attempt to be humanitarians who just happen to be immortal.  When they understand Edward’s love for Bella, they give their best attempt to understand it and include her, despite the danger that puts them in.  But, like their trust in Bella, Bella trusts in Edward that he will not harm her.  They fall deeply in love.

This movie contains plenty of the “good vs. evil” story and gives a good dose of teenage lovesickness.  I was a bit distracted by the redness of Edward’s lips during the entire movie, although my daughters disagree completely.  I can’t imagine that there would be any tween/teenie-bopper who wouldn’t like this movie.  I mean, I remember that age.  Love did conquer all and mean all.  Wow, am I jaded now?  ~

P.S. The DVD Edition has a bonus disk where they have all the “behind the scenes” stuff.  The twins have watched it twice.  It’s pretty good.

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