Trigger Warnings: Attempted SA, Gaslighting, Supernatural creatures, Murder
Summary:
This follows the main character of Bella who wants to go to Forks to spend time with her dad. This is because her mom wants to go on the road with her step dad who is a minor league baseball player. The one thing that she wasnt expecting was to fall in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen.
Bella is the new girl in town so she gets all the attention. Including the sight of a mysterious Cullen. She couldnt stop thinking about him after the incident in Bio on her first day that made her want to question what his deal was. But he starts no showing school to where she didnt know what was going on. So when Edward does come back she is wondering what happened and where he went. This intensifies when he pushed her out of the way of a van that almost crushed her.
Edward wants to keep his distance from Bella to stop her figure out the truth of exactly what he is. Saying “that they shouldnt be friends” and “what if im bad guy”. He wants to ignore Bella but there is something that keeps pulling him in.
What pulls Bella in to finally look into Edward on top of the van incident was the story that Jake told her. About the “cold ones” and how his ancestors made a treaty with them to keep them from hunting off of La Push Lands. So she ends up going to a bookstore while hanging out with Jess and Angela to see if there is anyway that these so called legends are true.
Once she finds out exactly what Edward is, she seems perfectly okay with it. Yes, she still has questions but overall she seems calm, cool and collected about it. Like she stopped being paranoid about the whole thing and was willing to move on with her new life with Edward without really thinking about the risks that it would cause to her being apart of his world. And even to the the fact that she might be losing friends over the fact that she is choosing a 110 year old stuck in a 17 year old body.
Thoughts:
I thoroughly enjoyed this movie even though it was like my millionth time watching it. I still find myself coming back to this franchise when I am just in the mood for a comfort watch. I think that as someone who has read the book, which you can read my review here, there are differences between both book and movie. I think that whoever wrote the script did a good job at choosing what was important to keep in (like Bella finding out that Edward was a vampire) and what not to include (the scene in bio class where Bella faints at the sight of blood along with the snowball fight that Mike wanted to do).
I think that the cast for this movie was great and I loved hearing how each person got their role in the twilight saga threw The Twilight Effects podcast with Ashley Greene (who plays Alice) and one of her friends. The cast was one of my favorite things about the movie and how they all did a great job at bringing these characters alive in their own way. And how they put some of how they thought the character would act to the character.
I do think that Edward can be a little bit toxic. Especially in this first film. Because even though that he wants what is best for Bella (AKA her living a normal life), he still finds a way to be a jerk at times. He does seem to be inconsiderate about what Bella wants and doesnt even ask if he wants to meet her family or play baseball with them even though it causes James to want to at the very least turn Bella. And it does seems to be Bellas choice to spend less time with her human friends for the sake of the sparkly vampire. I do think that Edward could have been betrayed better than someone who’s mindset is still stuck in 1918.
Rating:
3 stars
Worth The Watch:
Do I think its worth the watch? Yes. But I do think it is worth noting that there are misrepresentations of the Quileute tribe who some have talked their displeasure with how their tribes histories, myths, etc have been misrepresented in the saga written by Stephanie Meyer.
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