For those of you who enjoyed my take on Twilight, you might be interested to read this review on Heretical Ideas. Left Coast Cowboy Lisa Paul gave me the link (and her own take is highly amusing.)In her review, Michele points out that all this vampirism-as-abstinence malarkey might win the approval of parents everywhere, but they ignore the slightly disturbing fact that a staid and sensible girl like Bella becomes so obsessed with sleek and handsome Edward that she's forced to go cliff-diving just for the chance to hallucinate his voice.
Yes, when I write it like that, it suddenly does sound silly.
As Michele wrote:
Her absolute dependence on Edward to even breathe – she can barely exist when she’s out of his sight line – is both worrisome and disturbing. Her every thought is about him.Take it whichever way you want, but there's some truth to what Michele wrote...
Her every movement is dictated by her obsession with him. She throws herself at him to the extent that she is willing to be turned into a vampire just to spend eternity with him. Edward plays on all Bella’s emotions like a man who gets off on adoration.
He follows her, he appears in her room at night, he listens in, telepathically, on her friends’ conversations. He is there in every dangerous situation brought on by Bella’s clumsiness to rescue her and make her feel like she just could not make it another day alive without his knighthood. I don’t know about you, but over here we call that stalking.
Yet Bella seems unperturbed by Edward’s hovering and unflinchingly goes headlong into a dangerous, life threatening, almost one sided romance with him.
3 comments:
I went to see the movie at the cheapo theater with my daughter last weekend while I was visiting her at her college.
I totally laughed out loud over some of the scenes of Edward zipping around with Bella on his back. Very lame.
I do not care for the books but do find some of the strains interesting as I pointed out in the comments of your other post. I will finish reading the series but that is because my daughter likes to talk about them and I'd like to point some things out to her that she can think about.
Along with what the person had to say that you copied here about Bella's obsession with Edward, I have noted that it is not all that different from the lure of people to tame wild animals. To make someone/some animal love you enough to go against their nature and be protective of you... it is almost as if it is an even higher type of love being sought.
It reminds me of Travis the Chimp. He was always a Chimp but he was raised in a human way and had human expectations of reasoning through love placed on him that never should have been. He lost his life for acting like a chimp.
'JUST to spend eternity with him' ?
What a frivilous, fly by night girlish whim!
Mycroft
Oxford
I still say forget Twilight. The white-trash Southern Fried vampires of HBO's "True Blood" rule!
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