Apparently the roots of the actors' relationship were planted at their first meeting, when Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke conducted a chemistry test by having them kiss in her home on her bed. This perfectly describes the relationship of Bella and Edward, and of Stewart and Pattinson, too. In fact, for him, if you can pinpoint exactly what your relationship is founded on, then it's only a simulacrum of love, not the real thing. He formalizes the commonplace notion that people fall in love for no particular reason other than kismet. By love, he means not the specific person, but the fact of falling in love itself. These should be understood as formalisms, not as concrete instances: by science he means a new paradigm, by politics a new means of collective organization, and so on. He believes that people find meaning in at most four domains: science, art, politics, and love. The meaning of one's life doesn't derive from its length.Īs to where the meaning of life does derive from, I find convincing the rigorously argued ethical paradigm of French philosopher Alain Badiou. He doesn't actually die, because the battle turns out to be a prophetic vision by Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene), but the scene reminds us that immortality is a curse. Instead, he embraces their attack, muttering, "Finally," and duly dies. In the climactic battle in the last film, when two good vampires (Charlie Bewley and Billy Wagenseller) attack Marcus (Christopher Heyerdahl), one of the triumvirate rulers of the vampire world known as the Volturi, Marcus doesn't put up a defense. And I'm going to spoil it in the next paragraph. You would think that a plot about the progression of a romantic relationship wouldn't be susceptible to spoilers, but this plot contains exactly one spoilable moment across five films. Twilight sets up everything but the werewolf bit New Moon (2009) finishes the job Eclipse (2010) ties up a loose thread Breaking Dawn, Part 1 (2011) turns Bella herself into a vampire at 18, and mother to a human-vampire hybrid in the same stroke and Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (2012) is frankly extraneous, though it does hold the key line to my interpretation of the saga. She also reunites with childhood friend Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner), a member of a Native American tribe whose members phase into werewolves in proportion to the number of nearby vampires – they are enemies. And they're fascinating.ġ7-year-old Bella Swan (Stewart) moves in with her single dad in Forks, WA, where she meets vampire Edward Cullen (Pattinson), turned in 1918 when he was 17. This, and not my internalized misogyny against media embraced by teenage girls, is the angle from which I have approached these films, based on the four novels by Stephenie Meyer. What started changing my mind is the excellent work of its two leads, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, in their work after Twilight, though never again together after their breakup. I confess: I too used to shit freely on Twilight (2008). Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight (2008).
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