When you can live forever what do you live for?

Cast: Robert Pattinson (as Edward Cullen), Kristen Stewart (as Bella Swan), Billy Burke (Charlie Swan) and others.

Plot: A dark teenage love story with a twist!

Review: Not having read the book also titled Twilight, the first of the four books of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer, to be followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn, I do not have a standard to compare the actual work with the movie adaptation. Therefore, my interpretation is solely based on our viewing experience of the movie itself.

The main character of Isabella “Bella” Swan is a typical teenage high-school student, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to a small town, Forks in Washington to live with her dad, while her mother and step-dad go on a road trip across america. Bella makes friends easily with several popular kids in the new school. However, in when she is assigned to sit with a boy, Edward Cullen she senses that she had done something to him, inadvertently to avoid her, but she does not know what.

Bella gets attracted to Edward, who does opens up to her in a few days, thus beginning a teenage love affair. One day while getting into her car, Bella almost becomes a victim to an accident due to a van going out-of-control, driven by one of her friends, only to be saved by Edward, demonstrating some unusual and unexpected agility and strength. This makes Bella inquisitive about Edward. She becomes determined to find out who he is, and how he saved her life? After some research online and reading over the old fables of local indian tribes, Bella is sure that Edward and the rest of the Cullen family are Vampires, and she confronts Edward with the same. Edward trying his best not to fall for Bella, show’s her who he really is, and what he can do! Though, contrary to his beliefs, Bella is unfazed and loves him all the more.

Very interesting, dark, love story fraught with sexual tension consistent with adolescent teens. Their love is forbidden and destined to be tragic, yet it manifests itself beautifully in the movie. I’m looking forward to the next one with hope that I will be able to read the book, and fill in those significant data gaps that makes understanding the plot a little harder and less enjoying!

Rating: 4 of 5