twilight
To celebrate turning in two finals, which had been causing lack of sleep and stress for weeks, I got a beer with lunch and later went to see the new Twilight series film, Breaking Dawn, with Alison at the 19th street theatre. I expected it to be pretty fun or whatever but it turned out to be an exhausting experience.
I had really liked the style of the first Twilight, which was more or less consistent in the second movies two and three, though they are all made with different directors. Breaking Dawn is a departure from this style and seems to have been made with a seriously inferior CGI department. It felt like I’d been duped into buying a shitty knock off of the product I meant to buy.
Making it through the first half was tough. The impulse to leave the theatre, something I never have, hit me a few times. I was worried that the whole movie was just going to be some bizarre plotless movie about two morose teenagers getting married on the set of a Anthropologie commercial. Then, with no transition, it turned—spoiler alert—into a weird horror movie rip off of Rosemary’s Baby complete with weird anorexia fetishism. The second half of the movie is so grotesque and nonsensical it is truly mind boggling. How many people had to clear this to be produced and distributed? How can they all suffer from the same complete lack of taste and judgment?
However possible it is, I’m glad for it I guess. More than anything Twilight sort of hit home the idea that there is no culture and teenagers will basically pay for anything. i can’t describe how grotesque the transformation of Kristen Stewart is, taking place over almost an hour with essentially no other plot going on, while the entire cast of characters fights and argues, first about whether or not Edward and Bella should have sex, and then about whether and how to kill her fetus. The first half of the movie is forgotten, just a strange prelude to a stranger spectacle of a hideously deformed pregnant teenager. It’s really fucking weird.
I’ve mentioned the movie a lot since i saw it, to friends, classmates, I can’t seem to get it out of my mind. I cant say that its a good movie or its enjoyable to watch—basically its the opposite. But I tell people they should see it.
