My fascination for movies has always given me the opportunity of watching diverse movies all the time. Being an isolated movie buff (art movies keep my friends away) has brought in a sense of distinct flavor in me. I have always been egoistic of liking things which are overly popular or peoplistically close as i should say. But "Twilight" was one popular movie i had to watch and this blog suggestively indicates that it had the power to make me write a review for this movie.
As the name suggests "twilight" can be looked at as a shaded, obscure after the sunset before the night vampire love story. Let me tell you that this movie breaks the barriers of an unusually old subject about a vampire's love story. Although there are hardly few scenes of neck biting and blood gushing i must say that it is successful, in bringing out the fantasy of a vampire into a more close, real, subtle side of life. The movie strikes you right at the point where in biting neck and sucking blood even though being the symbolic acts of vampirism necessarily signifies the cinematically wild side of a human being, making you want to be one.
This movie belongs to Edward Collins and Bella the lead characters in the movie. The first frame of the movie immediately tells you the shade, warmth and vampiristic essence of the movie. The movie starts with bella quoting " Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.". Bella, the arizona girl is in forks a small town to meet her dad, chief of police.
Bella , the Arizona( here the state reflects her dry nature) presents her isolated, boring kinda attached to herself look from the beginning which would definitely not make you like her. Instead you will notice that this character of hers would make you love her at the end of the movie because you will appreciate her, when her solitude and her charming innocent character with a subtle smile decieves you the audience, when she falls in love with a totally ironic wild guy called the Vampire. I feel that this character makes the understatement that love is totally blind in the way that you would love a person who is totally not "you".
Her initial tryst with the collins family happens in the college dining room. The collins family as she would have learnt were like her, isolated and to themselves. " I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful."Love at first sight is when she humanely stares the yet to be known vampire Edward Collins. She instanly connects to him as she says " As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.For an instant, I felt a thrill of genuine fear, raising the hair on my arms. The look only lasted a second, but it chilled me more than the freezing wind.".
Edward collins distinctively has this whitish make up and red lips which suggestively indicates that he is a vampire to the audience. You will appreciate his dark yet pleasant character in the movie. There is something which makes you watch this scene again and again. It ideally defines the objective of Love at first sight in a different way, because its the ironical love between a human and a vampire.
Bella's dad is this usual protective cop who always insists on her carrying a pepper spray just in case. The relationship betwen Bella and her dad is portrayed with the fact that regaining long lost love makes anyone being overprotective which makes the loved ones " revelling in the aloneness instead of being lonely" Her feelings are justified in the book from which the story of the movie is adapted from. " When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.".
There are these thrilling scenes of the valor of Edward Collins where in they have actually tried to define Edward as the ideal hero of a teenage girl breaking the shell of a typically define d vampire who just keeps biting people. His characteristics of being a vampire like speed, strength , immortality , changing eye colour , not aging, pale white skin are shot distinctly.
I especially love the scene where in he stops a speeding car with his bare hands from hitting Bella. "Just before I heard the shattering crunch of the van folding around the truck bed, something hit me, hard, but not from the direction I was expecting." describes the reaction of bella to this.
As bella gets attracted to edward the movie continues to define two kinds of vampires the good and the bad ones. The good ones which collins belongs to is the non human eating group and the bad ones are the human eating group. The good vampires group is according to me an unbelievable ethical symbol where the vampires of the collins family have dared to be different, controlled their uncivilised behaviours and lead a life, simple and humble irrespective of the powers they possess.
There are unexplicably beautiful scenes where bella comes to know that he is a vampire and yet trusts edward even after he explains that there is this dominant part of him which makes him hard to control his desire for bella's blood. I can never forget the scene where in he lifts her off her feet literally using his powers to take here on the tallest treetop shot beautifly among the evergreen forest of Portland. This was beautiful to me because he was realising the fantasies of any romantic girl's mind, i mean who would not want to go there be the one amongst nature and imagine soaring high eventhough you could see the reality called ground.
There is this scene where in collins tries to kiss bella and suddenly realises his dominant part and stops himself just not to lose her.
The collins family also reflects just any other happy family but with a difference because it accepts Bella the human, an outsider.
The rest of the story is predictable. The bad vampires group wants to kill bella when the collins family defend her and defeat the bad group. Edward risks by activating the dominant part of him by sucking out the injected venom in Bella. Bella is saved and they live together happily ever after.
How can i not mention the background score which is titallating to your senses all through out and the amazing camera work which shows you the beautiful evergreen forest of Portland.
The final scene is captivating and moving where in even though Bella decides to be a vampire just to live with collins ever after Collins says no which signifies respecting the individuality of a person in a relationship yet sacrificing enough to make them happy.
Some interesting quotes from the book
That’s the beautiful thing about being human. Things change.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.478
It’s possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.475
I’ll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical… a man and woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.473
Some things are more certain than others… like the weather. People are harder. I only see the course they’re on while they’re on it. Once they change their minds — make a new decision, no matter how small — the whole future shifts.
Alice Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 22, p.435
I sketched inattentively along the margins of my homework. After a few minutes, I suddenly realized I’d drawn five pairs of dark eyes staring out of the page at me. I scrubbed them out with the eraser.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 7, p.142
The more familiar someone’s… ‘voice’ is, the farther away I can hear them.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.180
ps: Go watch the movie,
I actually like an another vampire girl in the movie called Alice. She is cute....
Bella , the Arizona( here the state reflects her dry nature) presents her isolated, boring kinda attached to herself look from the beginning which would definitely not make you like her. Instead you will notice that this character of hers would make you love her at the end of the movie because you will appreciate her, when her solitude and her charming innocent character with a subtle smile decieves you the audience, when she falls in love with a totally ironic wild guy called the Vampire. I feel that this character makes the understatement that love is totally blind in the way that you would love a person who is totally not "you".
Her initial tryst with the collins family happens in the college dining room. The collins family as she would have learnt were like her, isolated and to themselves. " I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful."Love at first sight is when she humanely stares the yet to be known vampire Edward Collins. She instanly connects to him as she says " As I flinched away from him, shrinking against my chair, the phrase if looks could kill suddenly ran through my mind.For an instant, I felt a thrill of genuine fear, raising the hair on my arms. The look only lasted a second, but it chilled me more than the freezing wind.".
Edward collins distinctively has this whitish make up and red lips which suggestively indicates that he is a vampire to the audience. You will appreciate his dark yet pleasant character in the movie. There is something which makes you watch this scene again and again. It ideally defines the objective of Love at first sight in a different way, because its the ironical love between a human and a vampire.
Bella's dad is this usual protective cop who always insists on her carrying a pepper spray just in case. The relationship betwen Bella and her dad is portrayed with the fact that regaining long lost love makes anyone being overprotective which makes the loved ones " revelling in the aloneness instead of being lonely" Her feelings are justified in the book from which the story of the movie is adapted from. " When I came here as a child, he would always remove the bullets as soon as he walked in the door. I guess he considered me old enough now not to shoot myself by accident, and not depressed enough to shoot myself on purpose.".
There are these thrilling scenes of the valor of Edward Collins where in they have actually tried to define Edward as the ideal hero of a teenage girl breaking the shell of a typically define d vampire who just keeps biting people. His characteristics of being a vampire like speed, strength , immortality , changing eye colour , not aging, pale white skin are shot distinctly.
I especially love the scene where in he stops a speeding car with his bare hands from hitting Bella. "Just before I heard the shattering crunch of the van folding around the truck bed, something hit me, hard, but not from the direction I was expecting." describes the reaction of bella to this.
As bella gets attracted to edward the movie continues to define two kinds of vampires the good and the bad ones. The good ones which collins belongs to is the non human eating group and the bad ones are the human eating group. The good vampires group is according to me an unbelievable ethical symbol where the vampires of the collins family have dared to be different, controlled their uncivilised behaviours and lead a life, simple and humble irrespective of the powers they possess.
There are unexplicably beautiful scenes where bella comes to know that he is a vampire and yet trusts edward even after he explains that there is this dominant part of him which makes him hard to control his desire for bella's blood. I can never forget the scene where in he lifts her off her feet literally using his powers to take here on the tallest treetop shot beautifly among the evergreen forest of Portland. This was beautiful to me because he was realising the fantasies of any romantic girl's mind, i mean who would not want to go there be the one amongst nature and imagine soaring high eventhough you could see the reality called ground.
There is this scene where in collins tries to kiss bella and suddenly realises his dominant part and stops himself just not to lose her.
The collins family also reflects just any other happy family but with a difference because it accepts Bella the human, an outsider.
The rest of the story is predictable. The bad vampires group wants to kill bella when the collins family defend her and defeat the bad group. Edward risks by activating the dominant part of him by sucking out the injected venom in Bella. Bella is saved and they live together happily ever after.
How can i not mention the background score which is titallating to your senses all through out and the amazing camera work which shows you the beautiful evergreen forest of Portland.
The final scene is captivating and moving where in even though Bella decides to be a vampire just to live with collins ever after Collins says no which signifies respecting the individuality of a person in a relationship yet sacrificing enough to make them happy.
Some interesting quotes from the book
That’s the beautiful thing about being human. Things change.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.478
It’s possible to take bravery to the point where it becomes insanity.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.475
I’ll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical… a man and woman have to be somewhat equal… as in, one of them can’t always be swooping in and saving the other one. They have to save each other equally.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 24, p.473
Some things are more certain than others… like the weather. People are harder. I only see the course they’re on while they’re on it. Once they change their minds — make a new decision, no matter how small — the whole future shifts.
Alice Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 22, p.435
I sketched inattentively along the margins of my homework. After a few minutes, I suddenly realized I’d drawn five pairs of dark eyes staring out of the page at me. I scrubbed them out with the eraser.
Bella Swan, Twilight, Chapter 7, p.142
The more familiar someone’s… ‘voice’ is, the farther away I can hear them.
Edward Cullen, Twilight, Chapter 9, p.180
ps: Go watch the movie,
I actually like an another vampire girl in the movie called Alice. She is cute....
