Twilight - film review

Life and death (in black and white)... Grade: A "Death is peaceful - easy. Life is harder. " - Bella (Kristen Stewart) in Twilight The appeal of any American teenage tragedy rests on the awareness of it’s star-crossed leads – be it James Dean and Natalie Wood, River Phoenix and Keanu Reeves or – in this case, Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattison. It’s founding properties lie in the supposed extrasensory perception - to realize one another’s subtle complexity with ease, in almost sentient fashion. Delineated to a typified, cliché ridden romance, Twilight is anything but –rather a conceptualized, subversive, highly involved drama imparting valuable good sense to the demographic it so eagerly draws in: the characterless, developing teen, willing to condition to such things as ascetic practices; the balancing act of processing one’s share of pain and happiness; life or death devotion in return for unabashed adoration. It is the willingness to toss away any lack of inhibition – whether for the sake of urgent contempt, or to live through something oh, “so very,” as a Heather once said. Or reasoning that all provided, in context, would provide more than a sturdy foundation for a very exciting adolescence.