Book and Movie Review - Twilight, a Daydream Fulfilled with Free Imagination

As a matter of fact, Twilight is not only suspected to be showy, but also has a plot of nonsense.  It has what others have – hero, beauty and villain; money, cars and mansion; romance, sci-fi and suspense.  Nothing more than the story of a depressed young women meeting a good looking, rich, and long-live man.  Even I, who don’t read a lot, still feel that the author’s skill is not that great.  However I still watched the film and finished the original book, to fulfill my infinite imagination of Edward this endlessly handsome vampire.  To a woman with normal psychological development, romance is the devil.

Bella the female protagonist is a long-winded, foolish, narrow-minded princess, not positive, never satisfied.  She can only see the worst of things, and hard strong for no reasons.  I have little patience of her personality, a total housewife.  But the author chooses to let her be the innocent girl with great beauty.  This will probably lead more adolescent girls to look into the mirror and find self-sympathy.  After all, most girls do not like girls who looks like an angel and showy at the same time.

The best choice of this book is that the author cleverly blurred the appearance of Bella, and start mainly with the psychological perspective of her, to let the readers can’t help but observe from her view.  On the other hand, the description of the Edward is focusing on his static and dynamic perfections.  Such as the handsome appearance and actions, the magnetic voice, touches of the skin and the smell …… and anything else that inspires all women’s fantasy with their senses.

From the perspective evolution, women’s choice of mating is much more complicated than men.  Not only the appearance is demanding, but also a fitting mind is required, too picky.  In this world there is no perfect woman, but every woman wish to have a flawless beautiful man that loves her for the whole life.  Even the author knows that is fantasy – so Edward is not human.

The story has many traces of Greek mythology and Brothers Grimm.  Edward and every member of his family are like the demi-gods with wisdom, beauty and kindness at the same time; family legend, compare to the legend of Zeus, is no less exciting.  As for the main story, a demi-god-like vampire falls in love with a human girls, is the Cinderella routine.  If a woman has this chance of a life-time, what you think we would choose? Live with an mortal man and average days, or live with a beautiful male that loves you forever and can do anything?  Just for the “Love You Forever”,  I would go for it.

And the selling point of this fascinating story is, the measurement of interest between limited lifespan with dynamic lifestyle and unlimited lifespan with static lifestyle.  Edward said that, as a human the best advantage is “everything changes”. The each ups and downs and imperfection let us cherish perfection more, because it can’t be achieved. But women always wish for the perfect – “You and I together forever”, even though we know the absurdity of such expectations.

Edward is obsessed with Bella, in addition to her special smell, the most fatal point, is that his ability to read people’s thoughts does not work on her.  Because he can’t read her mind, he finally feels his “humanity” – like an omnipotent God who just finds out something he can’t do – that is a treasure of one’s life time.  Refusing to become a bloodthirsty monster, finding himself in love with the prey, and relying on the power of the mind to overcome the desires of the body, give him unlimited satisfaction and the will to do good deeds.

For a story like this, we probably didn’t have the even space in our mind for hoping it happens. Yet because it is totally infeasible, we would cast aside our own thoughts willingly and become a fool, leaving the reality for a moment.  At least, we can get a moment of daydreaming.

Looks the women still need to solve their own problem.