Before you hit the highway
You better stop for gas
There's a 50 in the ashtray
In case you run short on cash
Here's a map and here's a Bible
If you ever lose your way
Its language and style of writing, I am uncertain. The movie, I watched for the sake of wanting to watch a movie. J.K. Rowling’s masterpiece is already part of UK’s modern literature syllabus and I wonder whether this one can top the richest author’s ‘Mona Lisa’ or even come close to it. However, I am positively sure- from watching the movie- that its plot is 100% more interesting than R.K Narayan’s “The English Teacher” but I also believe that it is no where near or even in the same category as Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway”. I have analysed 7 books in one and a half years, and it has grown in me to analyse the characters of a book or a movie.
I recently watched this movie again because of my sister and this second time around, it actually caught my attention and I felt the desire to watch the movie with an analytical point of view.
The two main characters are Edward Cullen and Isabella Swan (I hope I got the characters’ names right). Both made up of a complex personality, both attracted to one another for no definite reason and both from absolutely different worlds.
Edward Cullen, the supposed hottest guy in Fork High School, whom no girl is good enough for- that is before Isabella, comes into the picture. The odd one out of the five Cullen siblings, Edward, keeps to himself most of the time. His extra ability is to read people’s minds, therefore, when he is unable to ‘read’ Isabella, he is frustrated and indirectly sees her as a challenge he must try to overcome. Besides that, there is something ‘special’ about her that he finds attractive. Although he knows that he should stay away from her, his protective feelings towards her overpowers his inner will to stay away. When he discovers that Isabella is unafraid of him, he is even more attracted to her and this attraction develops into an emotional connection; which they call ‘love’. At the climax of the story, he is torn between the desire for her to become a vampire and the inability to control his lust once he tastes her human blood. In the audience’s opinion, Edward is a complex character who is suddenly put on the spot when a human girl comes into his life turning it upside down. He has always been able to stay away from girls as he has had no physical or emotional connection to them and has proved to be a discipline ‘vegetarian’. Therefore, when Isabella appears, he is thrown off guard and struggles with his heart and mind; which tell him two different things. His heart desires to draw close to her, to have a physical and emotional connection with her but his mind continuously tries to remind him that he must control his emotions.
Isabella Swan, the only daughter of Chief Swan and his ex wife. She decides to live with her father temporary while her mother and step father take a road trip. We know from her earliest conversation with Edward that she loves her mother and does not want to see her mother unhappy, thus, she makes a decision to come and live in Fork with her father. This demonstrates to us the close relationship she has with her mother. Although, she and her father have a little more distance, when James begins his hunt for her, she is terrified at the thought that her father will be harm because of her own actions. Nevertheless, she knows that to protect him she has to hurt him first and she does so with a heavy heart. Her attraction towards Edward is as complex as his attraction to her is. She is curious about his mood swings and his protectiveness towards her i.e. his ‘coincidental’ timing to always rescue her from being killed by her friend’s car and from being harass by the immoral boys. When she finally discovers the truth about him, she reveals it to him without much fear and is even more attracted to him. Not only that, when he tells her to move to Jacksonville as it will be the best for the both of them to be apart, she is terrified and refuses to move. Her inability to stay away is interesting as the audience views it as the lack of closeness she has with her parents. She does not have a very close and intimate relationship with her parents, as many youths experience, and when she develops this intimate relationship with Edward she cannot bear the thought of losing him, hence she is shocked by his news. Once again, the audience is encouraged to view their relationship as one that is beyond complexity and that there is no definite reason for their physical and emotional attraction besides the fact that they are both curious as to their attraction towards one another.
Okay, I’ve thought and written all of these in half an hour (f.y.i that is not sufficient for one to analyse even one character) and that is all the time I have for Twilight. My beloved Economics awaits me.
The result of procrastinating the entire week is burning the midnight oil. Dang it!
-chelle-
2 comments:
*hits the buzzer*
Boooo!
But if this is your view on the movie with no prior knowledge about the books, then I'd have to say that the movie did not manage to convey its message clearly enough.
But it was clear enough that you got the gist of it. YAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
I wanna start analyzing with you w00t! lol
LOL! That was all I could do within half an hour and yeah I have never read the book. Haha. :)
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