Twilight Film Review

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How would you react to your lover telling you he is a vampire? I know I would either laugh with much doubt that he was telling the truth or simply run away screaming. Well this isn’t the case for Bella Swan; in fact when told by her boyfriend that he is ‘the deadliest predator in the world’ she simply replies ‘I don’t care’. Twilight was the most anticipated movie of 2008. Stephanie Meyer's series of Twilight novels have been a teenage publishing sensation, especially in the United States where over 20 million copies have been sold alone. Since her award-winning 2003 film Thirteen, director Catherine Hardwicke has added some expertise in her analysis of the dark side of adolescence and puts it to good use in this wildly enjoyable film.

Kristen Stewart plays Bella, a bright, pale-faced young woman who is the child of a broken home. After spending most of her life with her mum in Arizona she proposes to live with her dad, the police chief in a small north-western town named Forks.  Bella’s first day at school starts like any other, she makes friends, and even has a few admirers. I would like to say that Bella falls for one of these ‘normal guys’ and lives happily ever after but Twilight is no average ‘chick-flick’. No instead Bella’s fate is to be swept off her feet (quite literally) by an un-human ‘hotty’. The first time she sees the ‘man’ destined to be her partner our eyes are drawn to the screen when a group of five sallow skinned, black haired attractive students stride into the school canteen. As we watch them stroll along like sexy 8os characters from Baywatch, we notice Bella’s eyes meet with the stranger at the back, the only one without a partner- Edward Cullen. Throughout the film their love unfolds and secrets are revealed, only to leave Bella in danger and fighting for her life.

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Twilight’s originality cannot be questioned. The film is memorable as no one has yet dared to unite the classic Romeo and Juliet love story line with the genre of soft horror. This is what I think makes this film utterly brilliant. The last vampire film to have this impression on the audience was Dracula made in 1931. When we think of a vampire, more often than not the first image to come in to our heads is the typical basic Halloween bloodsucker, with the Eastern European accent, the black cape, and the slicked-back hair. Even people who haven't seen the ...

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